Marriage Lines (film)

Marriage Lines is a 1962 Australian television play which was directed by Christopher Muir. Australian TV drama was relatively rare at the time.[3]

Marriage Lines
Produced byChristopher Muir
Based onplay by Clemence Dane
Production
company
Australian Broadcasting Commission
Distributed byABC
Release date
31 October 1962 (Melbourne)[1]26 November 1962 (Sydney)[2]
CountryAustralia
LanguageEnglish

Plot

Lysette returns to London after three unsuccessful marriages to look up her cousin's husband, publisher Felix Pilgrim. He is married to Virgilia, but has an affair with Lysette.

Cast
  • Walter Sullivan as Felix Pilgrim
  • Patricia Kennedy as Virgilia Pilgrim
  • Mary Ward as Lysette Eggerton
  • Moira Carleton as Chrissie, the Piglrims' retained
  • Beverley Dunn as Peggy, Felix's secretary
  • Joy Mitchell
  • Campbell Copelin

Production

Walter Sullivan travelled to Melbourne to shoot the production.[2]

Reception

The Australian Woman's Weekly TV critic called the production "a half-and-half job. Christopher Muir's production was satisfyingly polished; the play itself was woeful. The ABC decided to advertise this offering as a "sophisticated comedy." The theme—one woman trying to snaffle another's husband— can be funny, I suppose. But "Marriage Lines" was a melodrama of mothball manners... the cast had to battle with curiously dated dialogue... [a] sheer waste of good production and a goodish cast. "Marriage Lines" should have been murdered. Preferably at the dress rehearsal, if not before."[4]

References
  1. "Happy People Supply Conflict in 2 Plays". The Age. 25 October 1962. p. 14.
  2. "Sophisticated Drama". Sydney Morning Herald. 26 November 1962. p. 15.
  3. Vagg, Stephen (18 February 2019). "60 Australian TV Plays of the 1950s & '60s". Filmink.
  4. "GOOD PRODUCTION, GOOD CAST, BAD PLAY". The Australian Women's Weekly. 30 (28). 12 December 1962. p. 19. Retrieved 8 December 2016 – via National Library of Australia.


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