Heart Attack (1960 film)

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Heart Attack
Genre thriller
Written by George F. Kerr
Directed by William Sterling
Country of origin Australia
Original language(s) English
Production
Running time 65 mins[1]
Production company(s) ABC
Distributor ABN-2 (Sydney)
Release
Original network ABC
Original release 13 January 1960 (1960-01-13) (Melbourne, live)[2]
9 March 1960 (1960-03-09) (Sydney)[3]
External links
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Heart Attack is a 1960 Australian television play written by George F. Kerr. It was recorded in Melbourne, broadcast "live" there, recorded and shown later on Sydney television.[4]

The play was also adapted for radio with a 75-minute running time.[5]

Plot

Dr Brian Wynter's career is threatened by a blackmailer called Pearce. Pearce learns of Wynter's affair with another woman before his marriage and threatens to tell the doctor's wife, Judith, unless he is paid. Dr Wynter pays him off but Pearce keeps asking for money. Dr Wynter decides the solution is murder.

Cast

Production

It was Edward Howell's twentieth appearance in live television drama; he had appeared in six in Sydney before moving to Melbourne to star in Black Chiffon. Howell went in for an operation shortly after taping.[6]

Reception

The Age said it "had one of the feeblest plots ever peddled on Melbourne TV... 65 minutes of incoherent mush" and suggested the ABC "stick to imported scripts" for a while.[1]

That paper later said it "set Australian TV playwriting back several years"[7] and then at the end of the year called it the worst Australian drama of the year.[8]

The critic for the Sydney Morning Herald called it a "routine medical-domestic drama... given a routine performance... the play bad a kind of tired professional finish but no real originality in its plot or its techniques"in which the leads "all acted competency but without much real conviction."[9]

See also

References

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