Sixty Point Bold
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| caption = Ad from SMH 14 Jul 1958
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| writer = Royston Morley
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| director = Royston Morley
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| country = Australia
| language = English
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| runtime = 90 mins
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| network = ABC
| released = {{Start date|1958|07|16|df=y}} (Sydney, live){{cite magazine|magazine=ABC Weekly|title=Looking Ahead on Channel 2, ABN
|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-1446587479|page=33|date=July 16, 1958}}
| released2 = {{Start date|1958|09|24|df=y}} (Melbourne, taped){{cite news|newspaper=The Age|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/122417178/?terms=%22sixty%2Bpoint%2Bbold%22|date=24 September 1958|page=44|title=Radio and Television Supplement Program Alteration}}
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Sixty Point Bold is a 1959 Australian television play which aired on ABC. It was produced by the Sydney station of the network, ABN-2, and was kinescoped/telerecorded for showing in Melbourne on ABV-2. It was the second 90-minute live television play produced by ABN.{{cite news|newspaper=Sydney Morning Herald|title=Live newspaper Play|date=14 July 1958|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=OXlWAAAAIBAJ&sjid=D-UDAAAAIBAJ&pg=3474%2C3370336}} It was written and produced by Royston Morley and aired July 16, 1959 for 90 minutes.{{cite magazine|page=16|magazine=ABC Weekly| title=All the TV Programmes |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-1446587501}}
Plot
Set in a fictional South American country, it concerned a newspaper magnate Andre Charvet who clashes with the president of the nation, whose democratic government has replaced a dictatorship. Charveet brings a foreign correspondent called David back to the country to campaign against the President.
Cast
- Kevin Brennan as Andre Charvet
- James Condon as President Ortega de Riverda
- Dinah Shearing as Maria Charvet
- Bruce Beeby as Paul Crevel, Maria's lover
- Harp McGuire as David, a foreign correspondent
- Charles Tasman
- John Alden
- Owen Weingott
==Production==
It was the third in a series of plays dealing with a man in political power.{{cite news|newspaper=Sydney Morning Herald|date=30 June 1958|page=5|title=Leading Cast for Play}} Advertising called it "the story of political intrigue, violence and romance in a Latin America state".{{cite news|newspaper=Sydney Morning Herald|title=Advertising|date=14 July 1958|page=9}}
See also
References
External links
- [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3450186/ Sixty Point Bold on IMDb]
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{{Royston Morley}}
Category:1958 television plays
Category:1958 Australian television plays
Category:Australian Broadcasting Corporation original programming
Category:Australian English-language television shows
Category:Black-and-white Australian television shows
Category:Television plays directed by Royston Morley
Category:Australian Broadcasting Corporation television plays
Category:Television plays filmed in Sydney
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