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Escape from Singapore
Directed byJohn Power
Written byJohn Power
Produced byJohn Power
StarringDon Crosby
John Meillon
Martin Vaughan
Production
company
ABC
Release date
1973
CountryAustralia
LanguageEnglish

Escape from Singapore is a 1973 Australian TV dramatised documentary about General Gordon Bennett and his escape from Singapore in World War Two.[1]

It was a number of dramatised documentaries Power made for Australian TV. He spent ten months researching it, accessing papers provided by Bennett's widow.[2] It won Best Documentary at the 1974 TV Week Logie Awards.[3]

References

  1. ^ Ed. Scott Murray, Australia on the Small Screen 1970-1995, Oxford Uni Press, 1996 p29
  2. ^ Review at Sydney Morning Herald 23 September 1973 accessed 26 June 2013
  3. ^ TV Week Logie Awards 1974 Archived 3 December 2013 at the Wayback Machine accessed 26 June 2013

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