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form y La Truffa single work film/TV crime

Author:agent Terry Stapleton

Issue Details: First known date: 1969... 1969 La Truffa

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The script held in the Crawford Collection in the AFI Research Collection contains the following character notes (excluding regular characters):

'JAMIE VICKERS. Aged 19, sensitive, likeable, 'going through a phase'. An art student at the Tech. Drives a car.
'TINA NARETTI. 25-26. An attractive Australian girl, married to an Italian. Also doing an Arts course, which is where she met Jamie. A certain sadness about her. She knows her affair with Jamie is ill-fated and can't last, but because of her unhappy marriage, she tries to enjoy it while it does.
'DOMINIC COMISPARI. 45ish. An irrepressible, effervescent, likeable Italian.
'LUCIA. 40-45, Dominic's wife. Large with a large heart.
'ALBERTO. 35-40. Rather simple but good-natured Italian.
'MR GINOTTO 25-35. Italian tram conductor. Likeable, co-operative.
'MR ROMBERG 50-60. Manages the small store next to Naretti's office. Helps Banner in his investigation. Rather precise, dignified person.
'MRS HARRIS. 60-70. A pensioner. Very lively, observant.
'JOHNSON. 30ish, Small time crim. Figures in a car chase and has brief scene with Dwyer. Unintelligent, rough. Should drive well.
'CONSTABLE GREY. 25-30. Has two scenes with Dwyer as his assistant in the Divvy van, which he drives. Half a dozen lines, no emotion.
'PETER NARETTI. Late thirties to forty. Italian. Arrogant, used to manipulating people, including his wife. Ruthless and competent.
'ELLEN VICKERS. Vickers' wife.
'BERGMAN. 45ish. A Private Enquiry Agent. Not a bad bloke, used to the sordid side of life (divorce evidence etc). Looks rather weary, but has a little warmth left.'

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This entry has been compiled from archival research in the Crawford Collection (AFI Research Collection), undertaken by Dr Catriona Mills under the auspices of the 2012 AFI Research Collection (AFIRC) Research Fellowship.

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Script cover page (Crawford Collection at the AFI Research Collection)

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Extent: 83p.
(Manuscript) assertion

Note/s:

The script is labelled 'Episode N9' on the cover page. A notation in the top right-hand corner of the script indicates that this copy of the script was designated for 'Sue'.

There are no annotations on the script.

Stapleton seems to have been aware that his script risked running over length: a note on the final page reads, 'NOTE: EXCESS TIME CAN BE LOST BY SPEEDING UP ACTION RATHER THAN CUTTING DIALOGUE'.

The final page includes a list of crew credits:
Written by Terry Stapleton.
Edited by Dorothy Crawford.
Typed by Shirley Ballard, Hilary Burgess, Christine Rook.
Checked by Christine Rook, Hilary Burgess, Shirley Ballard.
Duplicated by [left blank].
There is a space after this for 'Producer's Remarks', but it has been left blank.

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Held at: AFI Research Collection

Local Id: SC DIV : 47

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Director: Ian Crawford ; Gary Conway

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Publisher: Crawford Productions ; Nine Network

Melbourne, Victoria,: Crawford Productions ; Nine Network , 1970 .

Extent: 52 min. 3 secs (as at 27.10.69, according to the script)p.

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According to Storey, Crawford was credited as director and Conway as film director.

Series: form y Division 4 Howard Griffiths , Charles E. Stamp , Douglas Tainsh , Luis Bayonas , Everett de Roche , Gwenda Marsh , Ted Roberts , Roger Simpson , Sonia Borg , Colin Eggleston , Michael Harvey , Phil Freedman , John Dingwall , Jonathan Dawson , Ray Chamula , David William Boutland , Tom Mclennan , Ian Jones , Keith Hetherington , Tom Hegarty , David Stevens , Terry Stapleton , Mark Randall , John Orcsik , Don Battye , Melbourne : Crawford Productions , 1969 Z1814717 1969 series - publisher film/TV detective crime Abstract
Division 4, which Don Storey notes in Classic Australian Television was 'the only drama series on Australian television to rival the popularity of Homicide', was created as a vehicle for Gerard Kennedy, who had risen to popularity playing the complicated enemy agent Kragg in spy-show Hunter, after Tony Ward's departure left Hunter's future in doubt.
According to Moran, in his Guide to Australian Television Series:
The series differed from Homicide in being more oriented to the situation and milieu of a suburban police station staffed by a mixture of plainclothes detectives and uniformed policemen. This kind of situation allowed Division 4 to concentrate on a range of crimes, from major ones such as murder to minor ones such as larceny.
Though set in the fictional Melbourne suburb of Yarra Central, 'Sets were constructed that were replicas of the actual St Kilda police station charge counter and CIB room, with an attention to detail that extended to having the same picture hanging on the wall', according to Storey.
Division 4 ended in 1976. Storey adds:
Division 4's axing was a dark day for Australian television, as within months the other two Crawford cop shows on rival networks, Matlock Police and Homicide, were also axed. It was widely believed, and still is, that the cancellation of the three programs was an attempt by the three commercial networks--acting in collusion--to wipe out Crawford Productions, and consequently cripple the local production industry.
Number in series: 47

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