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Summer of the Seventeenth Doll (1964)

Summer of the Seventeenth Doll poster
Directed by
Mary Ridge
Country
Australia
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

In this TV adaptation of the play, a group of Australian sugarcane cutters return to Melbourne for their annual layoff season with their city sweethearts. The seventeenth year of this arrangement reveals changes and disappointments in their relationships.

melancholictheatricalintimatenostalgicrestrainedyearningconversationalearnest

What happens

Summer of the Seventeenth Doll is a 1964 British TV adaptation of the play Summer of the Seventeenth Doll by Ray Lawler. It was done for Thursday Theatre. It was Mary Ridge's debut as director. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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