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During the Malayan Emergency, Australian troops looking for Communists arrive at a temple in the jungle. They meet the widow of a murdered planter who tries to seduce the soldiers.
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said "it has a remarkably attractive set.. and a most impressive performance by Owen Weingott, while the plot has sufficient intricacy and suspense to keep one guessing."
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Jane Connors, 'Vernon, Barbara Mary (1916–1978)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University,
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called it "ripe old melodrama" with "stale situations and limping cliches".
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https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/vernon-barbara-mary-11922/text21359
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Australian drama, 1970-1985 : a historical and critical survey
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Index

Barbara Vernon
Independent Theatre
Malayan Emergency
Barbara Vernon
Malayan Emergency
Leslie Rees

https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/vernon-barbara-mary-11922/text21359
"3 Forgotten Australian Television Plays"
Australian drama, 1970-1985 : a historical and critical survey
"Women's Letters – Sydney"
ISSN
0007-4039
Naked Possum
Categories
1956 plays
1950s Australian plays
Works by Barbara Vernon
Works about the Malayan Emergency

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