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Traveller Without Luggage

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Traveller Without Luggage
Based onLe Voyageur sans bagage
by Jean Anouilh
Written byGeorge F. Kerr
Directed byHenri Safran
StarringRic Hutton
Country of originAustralia
Original languageEnglish
Production
Running time70 mins[2]
Production companyABC
Original release
NetworkABC
Release16 August 1961 (1961-08-16) (Sydney)[1]
Release20 September 1961 (1961-09-20) (Melboure)[3]
Release11 December 1962 (1962-12-11) (Brisbane)[4]

Traveller Without Luggage is a 1961 Australian television film directed by Henri Safran and starring Ric Hutton. It was Safran's first English language work.[5][6]

Plot

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A man (Ric Hutton) has been in an asylum for 16 years suffering from loss of memory. He is without the memories that the normal person carries with him as "luggage". On the advice of the asylum psychiatrist, he sets out to find his past and spends 24 hours with a family who believe he is their lost son. He discovers he was a seducer, a wife-stealer, and generally vile character, and decides to ditch his old self, adopt a new personality and a new family.

Cast

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Production

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The play had been performed at the Sydney University Drama Society in June 1960.[7]

Reception

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The critic from The Sydney Morning Herald wrote that the production was marked by "competence rather than exciting path-finding... Desmonde Downing's sets rank with the best one has seen in A.B.C. productions; and George Kerr's adaptation of the play, while it reduced many interesting subsidiary threads, nevertheless fairly happily retained the essence of the writing."[8]

References

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  1. ^ "TV Guide". Sydney Morning Herald. 14 August 1961. p. 18.
  2. ^ "TV guide". Sydney Morning Herald. 16 August 1961. p. 21.
  3. ^ "TV Guide". The Age. 14 September 1961. p. 33.
  4. ^ "Traveller without luggage". TV Times. 6 December 1962. p. 14.
  5. ^ "Heiress takes over Ninepins". The Australian Women's Weekly. 30 August 1961. p. 19. Retrieved 23 June 2015 – via National Library of Australia.
  6. ^ Vagg, Stephen (18 February 2019). "60 Australian TV Plays of the 1950s & '60s". Filmink.
  7. ^ "The Past Featured in Plays". Sydney Morning Herald. 2 July 1960. p. 6.
  8. ^ "Anouilh's Play on TV". Sydney Morning Herald. 17 August 1961. p. 5.
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