Till Death Do Us Part (film)

Till Death Do Us Part is a 1959 Australian TV play. It was broadcast live in Melbourne, recorded, and was shown in Sydney.

Premise

A man in Italy falls in love with the wife of a gangster.

Cast

• Georgina Batterham
• Edward Brayshaw
• Syd Conabere
• Frank Gatliff
• Ken Goodlet
• Edward Howell
• Keith Hudson
• Kurt Ludescher
• Robin Ramsay
• Maree Tomasetti

Reception

The critic for The Sydney Morning Herald said that:

A neat little idea for suspense, with a wry ironic twist, faltered, through common place writing and unsubtle acting...better writing, direction and acting could have pointed up this dilemma more grippingly, as the story moved forward through its half-dozen episodes—what might happen_, what has happened, what does happen; all of it while the young man and the sardonic old scoffer wrangle quarrelsomely in a dingy street. Edward Brayshaw, as the young man, was the production's main weakness. The immaturity of the schoolboyish sarcasm in his anger was matched by the discomfort by which he approached the lyrically flowery love-talk allotted to him by the script: "From now on my life will write only your name," and other such nosegays of verbiage. Marie Tomasetti performed competently as the mystery woman, without suggesting (hat there could be depth and aches and necessities even in such a gangland woman. Frank Gatliff, using a rather big Shakespearean style with a Claude Rains bias, was the sardonic scoffer, but too monotonously in the one mood to be always appreciated as much as he Was at first. The dressing and the 'sets, so cramped in space that the characters could be allowed hardly any significant movement about the scene, were shoddy.^[1]

See also

• List of live television plays broadcast on Australian Broadcasting Corporation (1950s)

References

External links

• Till Death Do Us Part on IMDb