You Can't Win 'Em All (1962 film)

You Can't Win 'Em All is a 1962 Australian television play directed by Patrick Barton. Filmed in London, it was based on a play by Alun Owen which had been previously filmed by the BBC in 1961.[2]

You Can't Win 'Em All
Directed byPatrick Barton
Written byAlun Owen
Production
company
ABC
Release date
5 September 1962 (Melbourne)[1]
September 1962 (Sydney, recorded)
CountryAustralia
LanguageEnglish

Premise

In a South American state on the brink of revolution, the leader of the revolutionaries (Alan Hopgood) and his sister (Judith Thompson) meet a stranded British wireless operator (Syd Conabere) and invite him to join them. He does — because he needs money.[3]

Cast
  • Syd Conabere as Corrigan Blake
  • Alan Hopgood as Feliz
  • Norman Kaye as Selasco
  • Leon Lissek as Chalo
  • James Lynch as Julio
  • Judith Thompson as Anna Maria, sister of Feliz

Production

It was the first TV play produced by Patrick Barton, an Englishman who had lived in Australia for two years. Most ABC drama in Melbourne until then had been done by William Sterling or Christopher Muir. Barton said the play was different in tone to other works by Barton.[4]

Reception

The quality of the production was criticised.[5]

The Age said "the production was racy to match the play and the hand of the producer, though firm, never intruded."[6]

References
  1. "TV Guide". The Age. 30 August 1962. p. 33.
  2. "Corrigan Blake". Action TV.
  3. "New Play by Welsh Author". Sydney Morning Herald. 24 September 1962. p. 13.
  4. "ABV-2 Tries Out a New Producer". The Age. 30 August 1962. p. 13.
  5. "Australian TV production 'Blasphemous'". The Canberra Times. 37 (10, 390). Australian Capital Territory, Australia. 23 November 1962. p. 13. Retrieved 21 February 2019 – via National Library of Australia.
  6. "Teletopics". The Age. 13 September 1962. p. 14.


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