Wall to Wall (film)


Wall to Wall is an episode of the Australian anthology drama series Australian Playhouse.
It was written by Ann Kincloch and produced by Eric Taylor. It starred Gwen Plumb and was shot in Sydney.

Plot

Elizabeth Fletcher reflects on her lonely life on her birthday. She remembers her one chance at romance, several years previously. She goes to a dance where a man pities her and takes her home, where he is "trapped" by her father.

Cast

The play had originally been written by Adelaide writer Ann Kinloch for a 1962 competition for Channel Nine drama. However it was not used, the studio making The Valley of Water instead.

Reception

The Sydney Morning Herald thought "the dialogue is so soften stitled and at times too obvious and the author's intentions towards characters or actions are frequently obscure so that after a while one waits for the end in the hope - this time unavailing - that something can be made out of it all."
The Age called it "a bad play... embarassing as it bellowed and whimpered through a predictable pattern of trite tragedies." Another reviewer in the same paper called it "one of the poorest of the series. The script might have been written by a schoolboy."
The Sunday Sydney Morning Herald said Gwen Plumg "gets out nod for the week's finest performance" for her work in the show.
The Bulletin called the play "the silliest of all" the episodes of the series.