Brumby Innes

Brumby Innes is a 1973 TV film based on the play by Katharine Susannah Prichard.[1]

Brumby Innes
Written byKatharine Susannah Prichard
Based onnovel and 1927 stage play by Katharine Susannah Prichard
StarringDennis Miller
Lynette Curran
Vic Marsh
Peter Cummins
Distributed byNetwork 10
Release date
26 June 1973 (Melbourne)
Running time
75 mins
CountryAustralia
LanguageEnglish

It aired in Sydney on 28 November 1973.

Premise

A station manager lives alone in the outback except for his best friend and local black women. A white woman arrives.

Cast
  • Dennis Miller
  • Lynette Curran

Original play

Prichard's play had been written in the 1920s. In 1927 it won a competition for best Australian play.[2][3]

It had been produced in 1972 by The Pram Factory.[4][5]

References
  1. Ed. Scott Murray, Australia on the Small Screen 1970–1995, Oxford Uni Press, 1996 p20
  2. "A WEST AUSTRALIAN NOVELIST". The West Australian. Perth. 15 June 1935. p. 5. Retrieved 24 May 2015 – via National Library of Australia.
  3. "BRUMBY INNES". Sunday Mail. Brisbane. 27 November 1927. p. 1. Retrieved 24 May 2015 – via National Library of Australia.
  4. "Pram Factory Recollections" by John Smythe accessed 22 June 2013
  5. "WRITERS' WORLD". The Canberra Times. 25 November 1972. p. 12. Retrieved 24 May 2015 – via National Library of Australia.


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