Finger Your Neck

Finger Your Neck is a 1957 Australian radio play by Nicholas Winter and James Carhatt. It aired as an episode of the The General Motors Hour show and it was directed by Harry Harper.[2]

Finger Your Nick
Genreplay drama
Running time60 mins[1]
Country of originAustralia
Language(s)English
StarringStewart Ginn
Written byJames Carhatt
Nicholas Winter
Original releaseJune 26, 1957 (1957-06-26)

Winter and Carhatt were American writers who visited Australia, where their credits included Chance of a Ghost. They also wrote Finger your Neck, which was a rare Australian-set radio play to focus on the mafia.[3]

It was based on an episode of the same name that Carhatt and Winter had written for the TV series Assignment Foreign Legion.[4]

A copy of the production is held by the National Film and Sound Archive.[5]

Premise

An English judge, Sir Robert Della Hanna, is assassinated after sentencing mafia members to prison. His daughter feels to Sydney but is chased after by assassins.[6]

Cast

References
  1. "2CA On The Air!". Queanbeyan Age. New South Wales, Australia. 21 June 1957. p. 2. Retrieved 4 October 2023 – via National Library of Australia.
  2. "No title", ABC Weekly, Sydney: Australian Broadcasting Commission (Vol. 19 No. 26 (29 June 1957)), 1939, nla.obj-1556579356, retrieved 4 October 2023 – via Trove
  3. "Drama theme on terrorists in Australia". Listener In TV. 21 June 1957. p. 3.
  4. "BBC Brings in Big Guns for Weekend Push". Coventry Evening Telegraph. 30 November 1956. p. 18.
  5. Finger Your Neck at National Film and Sound Archive - this gives the date as 1952 but that may be an error.
  6. "Mafia escape story by Australian authors". The Age. 20 June 1957. p. 23.
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