Escape from Singapore
Directed byJohn Power
Written byJohn Power
Produced byJohn Power
StarringDon Crosby
John Meillon
Martin Vaughan
Peter Gwynne
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 II.[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]

Cast

Reception

The Sun Herald praised it saying "a medal for this one."[4]

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
  4. "A medal for the general". The Sun Herald. 30 September 1973. p. 81.


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