Photo Finish (film)
Photo Finish is a 1965 Australian TV movie based on a play by Peter Ustinov. It screened on ABC and was produced by Oscar Whitbread and starred Frank Thring.
Thring played the role on stage the year before.
It was part of Wednesday Theatre. Australian TV drama was relatively rare at the time.Plot
A writer is visited by ghosts from his past - himself at the ages of twenty, forty, and sixty.Cast
- Frank Thring as Sam Kinsale, aged 80
- Elspeth Ballantyne
- Michael Duffield as the father
- Beverley Dunn as the mother
- Norman Ettling as the 40 year old
- Patricia Kennedy as Stella, the wife
- Patsy King
- Stanley Walsh as the 20 year old
- Raymond Westwell as the 60 year old
Production
A version of the play had been performed on ABC the previous year.Reception
The Age said Thring "gave a striking performance" and praised the "sparkling dialogue".
