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Dark Brown (1957)

Dark Brown poster
Directed by
Christopher Muir
Country
Australia
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

This is a short live television drama from 1950s Australia. It was one of the first TV plays produced in Melbourne. The plot involves a character with a dark secret.

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What happens

Dark Brown is an early Australian television film, broadcast during 1957 on ABC. It was broadcast live in Melbourne, one of the first TV productions from that city. The play was later filmed again by the ABC in Brisbane in 1963. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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