Escape from Singapore

Escape from Singapore
Directed by John Power
Produced by John Power
Written by John Power
Starring Don Crosby
John Meillon
Martin Vaughan
Production
company
ABC
Release dates
1973
Country Australia
Language English

Escape from Singapore is a 1973 Australian TV dramatised documentary about General Gordon Bennett and his escape from Singapore in World War Two.[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]

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 accessed 26 June 2013

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