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词条 Light Me a Lucifer
释义

  1. Plot

  2. Cast

  3. Reception

  4. References

  5. External links

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Light Me a Lucifer is a 1962 Australian television comedy film which aired on ABC.[2] Written by John O'Grady, it starred Frank Thring as the devil, along with Wyn Roberts, Edward Howell, Joan Harris, Ken Goodlet and Lynne Flanagan. It aired in a 75-minute time-slot. Despite having aired in an era where wiping was common, the TV film still exists.[3][4] It was produced in Melbourne.

Plot

In Hell, Satan (Frank Thring) reproaches his Australian agent, Stoker (Edward Howell) for not bringing enough Australians to Hell. Stoker persuades Satan to come to Sydney with his wife Lilith (Lynne Flanagan) to study the situation. Satan arrives in an industrial suburb as Stoker's boss, Nick Devlin.

The Devil decides to give up being the Devil and becomes an Australian instead.

Cast

  • Frank Thring as Satan/Nick Devlin
  • Kenneth Goodlet
  • Edward Howell as Stoker
  • Wynn Roberts
  • Lynne Flanagan as Lilith
  • Bruce Webster[5]

Reception

The Sydney Morning Herald TV critic called it a "brilliant Melbourne production" which "gave a candid picture of the unsubtle and rough-diamond Aussie, but was in itself subtle and refined in all the details of manner, pronunciation and setting which make up the Australian in-the-rpund. The main points in this witty study of Australiana were never rammed home they came up naturally in the dialogue" and "the cast portrayed them to perfection."[6]

The Sunday Herald called it "neither a good play nor a bad play but something in between" in which O'Grady "has a sure and accurate ear for the Australian way of speech... but jammed into 75 minutes of television it wasn't enough to bolster a basically weak comedy."[7]

The Bulletin said it "could become a fairly good television play, but not for English ears. The audio side of it would be a torment for them. It was to mine, too, in places... it tried to stretch a thin situation to 75 minutes, which was at least 15 minutes too long for a small joke."[8]

References

1. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article136935220 |title=THIS WEEK ON ABC-3 |newspaper=The Canberra Times |volume=37 |issue=10 |page=12 |location=Australian Capital Territory, Australia |date=24 December 1962 |accessdate=18 February 2017 |via=National Library of Australia}}
2. ^{{cite news|newspaper=Sydney Morning Herald|title=Luficer in Sydney|date=24 December 1962|page=8}}
3. ^Light Me a Lucifer at National Film and Sound Archive
4. ^Light Me a Lucifer script at National Film and Sound Archive
5. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article51970320 |title=LECTURES WITH MORNING CUPPA |newspaper=The Australian Women's Weekly |volume=30, |issue=[?] |location=Australia, Australia |date=9 January 1963 |accessdate=18 February 2017 |page=13 |via=National Library of Australia}}
6. ^{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=feNYAAAAIBAJ&sjid=-OUDAAAAIBAJ&pg=4847%2C5782521|newspaper=Sydney Morning Herald|title=Luficer on ABC|date=27 December 1962|page=4}}
7. ^{{cite news|newspaper=Sun Herald|first=Val|last=Marshall|title=TV Merry Go round|page=42|date=30 December 1962}}
8. ^{{Citation | | title=The bulletin | publication-date=1880 | publisher=John Haynes and J.F. Archibald | url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-684860230 | accessdate=23 March 2019}}

External links

  • {{IMDb title|1784521}}
  • Light Me a Lucifer at AustLit
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