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Shadow of Doubt
( dir. Raymond Menmuir
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Australia
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Australian Broadcasting Commission
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1957
7972960
1957
single work
film/TV
The ABC's second live television play (after Leslie Rees's Sub-editors' Room, broadcast in late 1956).
According to contemporary newspaper reports:
The play co-stars Don Crosby as Dr. Arthur Ross, a nuclear physicist convicted of treason, and Bruce Beeby as Manning, a ruthless secret service man. The play tells of Dr. Ross' attempt to rehabilitate himself as a citizen after serving a prison term.
The Australian Women's Weekly also notes that the play 'has been specially adapted for TV in words and camera shots', but the author responsible for the adaptation has not been traced.
Source:
Musgrove, Nan. 'Television Parade', Australian Women's Weekly, 12 June 1957, p.12.
Notes
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The Shadow of Doubt is included in AustLit because of an Australian-written adaptation.
Production Details
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Premiered at The King's Theatre, Glasgow, on Saturday 25 June 1955.
See:
'Physicist and the Theatre', Glasgow Herald, 27 June 1955, p.5.
