Escape from Singapore

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| image =

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| director = John Power

| producer = John Power

| writer = John Power

| based_on =

| starring = Don Crosby
John Meillon
Martin Vaughan
Peter Gwynne

| music = Richard Connolly

| cinematography = Geoff Burrowes

| editor = Stewart Young

| network = ABC

| company = ABC

| released = {{Start date|1973|09|26|df=y}} (Sydney)

| released2 = {{Start date|1973|10|18|df=y}} (Melbourne)

| runtime = 90 mins

| country = Australia

| language = English

| budget =

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Escape from Singapore is a 1973 Australian TV dramatised documentary about General Gordon Bennett and his escape from Singapore in World War II.Ed. Scott Murray, Australia on the Small Screen 1970-1995, Oxford Uni Press, 1996 p29

It was a number of dramatised documentaries Power made for Australian TV. He spent ten months researching it, accessing papers provided by Bennett's widow. Power said "I was interested in the dilemma of a man, an undoubtedly a brave man, facing a great personal crisis... should he or should he not leave his troops?.. It goes down as one of the great crises in Australian history."{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1301&dat=19730923&id=E6YpAAAAIBAJ&sjid=eeUDAAAAIBAJ&pg=3324,9119890 |title=Wartime general caught in a trap|newspaper=Sydney Morning Herald|date= 23 September 1973|page=41}} accessed 26 June 2013

The film won Best Documentary at the 1974 TV Week Logie Awards.[http://www.tvweeklogieawards.com.au/logie-history/1970s/1974/ TV Week Logie Awards 1974] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131203135156/http://www.tvweeklogieawards.com.au/logie-history/1970s/1974/ |date=3 December 2013 }} accessed 26 June 2013

The show was repeated in 1975.{{cite news|title=Black and white's big 4 repeated|newspaper=The Age|date=20 February 1975|page= 36}}