请输入您要查询的百科知识:

 

词条 The Long Sunset
释义

  1. Plot

  2. Cast

  3. Reception

  4. See also

  5. References

  6. External links

{{Infobox film
| name = The Long Sunset
| image =
| image_size =
| caption =
| director = Colin Dean
| producer =
| writer =
| based on = play by R.C. Sheriff
| narrator =
| starring =John Bell
| music =
| cinematography =
| editing =
| studio = ABC
| distributor =
| released = 27 November 1963
| runtime =
| country = Australia
| language = English
| budget =
}}

The Long Sunset is a 1963 Australian TV movie based on a play by R.C. Sheriff. It starred John Bell and was directed by Colin Dean It was recorded live.

The play had been filmed by the BBC in 1958.[1]

Plot

A Roman family during the last days of Roman Britain.

Cast

  • Henry Gilbert as Julian Severus
  • Lynne Murphy as Serena Severus
  • James Condon as Arthur, leader of a band of Britons
  • John Bell as Julian's son
  • Sandra Gleeson
  • Tim Cohen
  • Guy le Claire
  • Ronald Morse
  • Richard Parry
  • John Faassen.

Reception

The critic from the Sydney Morning Herald wrote that:

The gingerly stiffness of dialogue and manner that seems to overcome most dramatists and actors when they are playing at history was seldom absent from the performance of "The Long Sunset" shown on ABN Channel 2 last night. The characters in R. C. Sherriff's play about the ending of Roman rule in Britain are in any case incorrigible cardboard, but Colin Dean's production, despite a few visual ingenuities, seemed to emphasise rather than minimise their creaking unreality. The Romans either intoned phrases of hollow nobility and stoicism or were querulous and fearful; their British allies in the fight against the encroaching Saxons merely slouched and growled. None of them was more than spasmodically interesting. Henry Gilbert as a Roman clinging determinedly to his adopted land seemed to be taking part in a very slow and stately pageant. James Condon was conscientiously surly and thicktongued as Arthur (here shown as a shaggy local chieftain and not in his legendary metamorphosis) without being really commanding, and John Bell and John Faassen were largely wasted in dull parts. Guy le Claire's Caledonian slave was slightly more convincing. The play would have seemed better if the performance had shown more evidence of the sort of rehearsal that allows actors to develop characterisations as well as merely learn lines and moves, but even with devoted attention it is not likely to have much more in its favour than the romance of its historical idea.[2]

See also

  • List of television plays broadcast on Australian Broadcasting Corporation (1960s)

References

1. ^[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1207143/?ref_=nm_flmg_wr_14 The Long Sunset 1958 TV play] at IMDB
2. ^{{cite news|title=DRAMA REVIEW _"Long Sunset" On Television|newspaper=Sydney Morning Herald|date=28 November 1963|page=15}}

External links

  • {{IMDb title|4082134}}
  • [https://archive.org/details/playsoftheyearvo017758mbp Full text of play] at Project Gutenberg
{{R.C. Sherriff}}{{Colin Dean}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Long Sunset}}{{Australia-tv-film-stub}}

7 : Australian television plays|1963 television plays|Australian Broadcasting Corporation shows|English-language television programs|Live television programs|Black-and-white Australian television programs|Australian films

随便看

 

开放百科全书收录14589846条英语、德语、日语等多语种百科知识,基本涵盖了大多数领域的百科知识,是一部内容自由、开放的电子版国际百科全书。

 

Copyright © 2023 OENC.NET All Rights Reserved
京ICP备2021023879号 更新时间:2024/9/30 14:17:37