Early BBC TV play about Australia. Written by Australian Henry Constable James who wrote The Bunyip (1947).
IMDB link is here.
Apparently it was about the Australian Gold Rush. Asa Briggs refers to it in his history of the BB Volume 4 p 701 because James co wrote it with Michael Barry; Briggs talked about Barry's TV directing career.
Cast
Christine Adrian as Daisy
Allan Bixter as The pianist
John Boxer as Mr. Darlington
Edward Byrne as Patrick Connor / A man
Cyril Chamberlain as Mr. Lewis / A man
Joyce Chancellor as Bridget
Ivan Craig as Lofty Saunders
Richard Hurndall as Sam Jenkins
Warren Jenkins as Jack Atherton
W.A. Kelly as Father Kelly / A man with a barrow
Charles Lamb as Ted
Pegeen Mair as Cathleen Connor
Laurence Naismith as Mr. Thomson
Fred O’Donovan as Dead Sweet Joe Connor
Charles Rolfe as Arthur NewsteadHorace Sequeira as Will Trelawny
Morris Sweden as Tom Jones
Reg Varney as Harry Pickering
Herbert C. Walton as Jim Escreet
Marguerite Young as Emigrant
Production
Michael Barry worked on the script and directed. Here's a bio of Barry on line. He was the BBC's first head of television drama.
Henry C. James
His IMDB page is here . Born 1902. Worked as a journalist. Died in 1989 in Perth. William Henry Constable James.
Wrote a 1936 play in London - Golden Gander. Review by Leslie Rees here.
Wrote scripts for The First of the Few, Waltz Time. Directed Swiss Honeymoon (1947).
Henry James, .an Australian who’s been making films in Britain and Europe for the last 15 years, is back to make a documentary for the Dutch Government on how Dutch migrants are making out in Australia. Idea will be to interest the million surplus Dutchmen in Holland in Australia and induce them to migrate. James wrote the script for The First of . the Few and pioneered television drama in London with two Australian stories, The Bun- yip and the Crock of Gold.
He later wrote Nickel Queen.
1938 musical No Sky SO Blue
1944 story The Man Who Came Back
1950 - book: Gold is Where You Find It.
1951 - radio feature Dutchmen in Australia
1952 - radio feature Living at a Price.
Novel the Madness of Charlie (1952).
Wrote 1953 novel The Green Opal set in Sydney - review here.
1956 novel Coast of the Sun
1959 novels Children of the Hidden Valle adnC hildren of the Barges. Review here.
1960 novel Children of the Coast
1961 novel Children of the Highlands
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