Bodgie (1959)

Directed by

Raymond Menmuir

Country

Australia

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A live television play from 1959, adapted for an Australian setting. It follows characters in a story originally from Britain, focusing on their interactions and conflicts.

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What happens

Bodgie is an Australian television movie, or rather a live television play with filmed sequences, which aired on ABC during 1959. Originally broadcast on 12 August 1959 in Sydney on ABN-2, a kinescope recording was made of the program and shown in Melbourne on ABV-2 on 2 September 1959. At the time, most live plays broadcast on Australian television were simply performances of overseas plays. Bodgie was based on a British story written by an Australian, Rex Rientis, which was adapted to be relocated to Australia by another Australian writer, Alan Seymour. It is not known if the kinescope recording of the broadcast is still extant or not. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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