The Medium (1960 film)

The Medium
Directed by Alan Burke
Based on The Medium by Gian Carlo Menotti
Distributed by ABC
Release date
 31 August 1960
Running time
 60 mins
Country Australia
Language English

The Medium is a 1960 Australian TV production. It was a filmed version of the opera by Menotti.

Cast

  • Jon Dennis
  • Neil Easton as Mr. Gobineau
  • Joan Grey as Mrs. Nolan
  • Nita Maughan as Mrs. Gobineau
  • Jane Ross as Monica
  • Margaret Winkler as Madame Flora

Production

It was directed by Alan Burke who later recalled he liked the opera "because it seemed to have visual opportunities and I thought it would work very well in television" being done in one set. He felt Menotti was "a poor man's Puccini... which is why the ABC was not all that keen to do it. But he is enormously effective theatrically. The Medium would make a wonderful movie score - so what better than to make a little television score with it? So we did that and pulled a few tricks - it led itself to very low key lighting."[1]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Interview with Alan Burke


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