Australian ''TV movies'' of 1957
A list of "TV movies" (actually live television plays) produced for Australian TV in 1957. All of these aired on ABC. Most of them were based on overseas stage plays.
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- DirectorChristopher MuirStarsNeil EastonVictor FranklinTony MonopolyIn this live television opera, A crippled boy is visited by the three wise men.
- DirectorChristopher MuirStarsWalter BrownAgnes DobsonLaura JamesA woman suspects her husband intends to kill her.
- DirectorChristopher MuirStarsBrian JamesSyd ConabereWalter BrownA live television play set in 16th century France. A duke imprisoned for 15 years in a castle in France feigns blindness for five years to lull the suspicions of his captors in order to plan his escape.
- DirectorWilliam SterlingStarsBruce BeebyMadi HeddKeith Alexander
- DirectorBill EldridgeStarsPhilip StaintonNicolette BernardBeverley DunnA drama of mixed romances.
- DirectorAlan BurkeStarsHanns EislerAl GarciaNigel LovellA live television play about p.o.w.s during WW2.
- DirectorEric McCleeryStarsPeter O'ShaughnessyMoira CarletonNeil FitzpatrickA French stationmaster wants to spend a holiday at Biarritz.
- DirectorPaul O'LoughlinStarsJames CondonMargo LeeNeva Carr-GlynnIn 1890s London rakish Algy runs into friend Jack who's in town to propose to Algy's cousin Gwendolen. Algy discovers Jack has a brother 'Ernest' and a ward called Cecily. While Jack deals with Gwendolen's mother, Algy tries to meet Cecily. Hilarity ensues when both arrive in the country posing as 'Ernest'!
- DirectorPaul O'LoughlinStarsIvor BromleyEdward HowellMarion JohnsThe story of a teenage pianist who prefers football to practicing.
- DirectorPaul O'LoughlinStarsDinah ShearingJames CondonAudrey TeesdaleA grieving widow in Ancient Greece gradually finds the attractions of a young soldier outweighs her determination to join her husband in the underworld.
- DirectorEric McCleeryStarsCarl BleazbyNorman GriffithsLaura James
- DirectorWilliam SterlingStarsBruce BeebyRoger ClimpsonJune CollisTwo young men strangle their "inferior" classmate, hide his body in their apartment, and invite his friends and family to a dinner party as a means to challenge the "perfection" of their crime.
- DirectorBill EldridgeStarsMoira CarletonSyd ConabereBeverley DunnA woman suspects her husband of having an affair with another woman.
- DirectorRaymond MenmuirStarsDon CrosbyBruce BeebyWinifred GreenA live television play, a suspense drama concerning an English physicist.
- DirectorWilliam SterlingStarsEdward BrayshawJudith GoddenRobert PeachA drama set in Italy during Allied advance of 1944.
- DirectorPaul O'LoughlinStarsJoan LandorGuy Le ClaireBrenda SendersA comedy set in a town in northern Mexico.
- DirectorPaul O'LoughlinStarsMargo LeeJames CondonOn the Duke of Mall's yacht, Lenora, the Duke's wife, leaves her philandering husband. The Duke seeks solace in Lenora's identical twin sister in Paris. This turns out to be Lenora in disguise. The Duke falls in love with his wife again.
- DirectorRaymond MenmuirStarsQueenie AshtonBernard BarberLola BrooksComedy play set in a police state.
- DirectorWilliam SterlingStarsLeonard BullenNorman CullJoan LordA comedy about a mysterious burglar.