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Issue Details: First known date: 1962... 1962 Lean Liberty
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'A young and talented research worker's past as a member of the Communist Party begins to affect his career and marriage.'

Source: BFI (http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/262021). (Sighted: 9/10/2013)


A review in The Times notes:

The setting–big business in Australia–is exotic enough to inspire immediate interest. The situation–an electronics expert up against it because his employers have found out his background and want his resignation or a guarantee that he will be 'sensible'–should give rise to some gripping drama, especially in the inevitable board room confrontations.

And so it did, despite too many awful lines (cliché and whimsy) which an efficient editorial blue pencil would have removed. The character of the chairman of the board was credibly ruthless and practical, and the hero, cussed, always ready (even eager) to stick his neck out, but basically weak, an obvious case of a martyr complex, was maddening but believable.

Source: 'A Case of Martyr Complex', The Times, 27 June 1962, p.15.

Notes

  • Television play.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

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      United Kingdom (UK),
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      Western Europe, Europe,
      :
      ITV ,
      1962 .
      Extent: 90min.p.
      Series: form y separately published work icon ITV Play of the Week United Kingdom (UK) : ITV , 1955-1974 6392288 1955 series - publisher film/TV

      Anthology television series, airing a variety of discrete television films.

      Number in series: 7.24
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