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Dangerous Corner (Wednesday Theatre)

1965 film by Patrick Barton

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 7, 2024
Entity authorityQ28929945 ↗
Source-derived summary

"Dangerous Corner" is a 1965 Australian television play based on the play Dangerous Corner by J.B. Priestley. It was filmed in Melbourne.

Premise

A suicide and an empty cigarette case spark an emotional powder keg in a family.

Cast

Dorothy Bradley as Olwen

Maxwell Jackson as Robert

Amanda Fox as Freda

Judith Arthy as Betty

David Mitchell as Gordon

Charles Stanton as Keith

Sheila Florance as Miss Mockridge

Keith Lee

Production

Amanda Fox was an English actress who was born when her father was appearing in the original stage production of Dangerous Corner.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Dangerous Corner (Wednesday Theatre)” as 1965 film by Patrick Barton. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1965—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1965-06-09. The account is most persuasive where Dangerous, Corner and Wednesday can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the arts & letters register because the source frames it as 1965 film by Patrick Barton. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 7, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q28929945. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1965.

Critical limits

Titles can refer to several editions, objects or performances, making precise identification essential before interpretation. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Separate the work, its editions or performances, and its later reception. Catalogue records, publication histories and object files often preserve different parts of that story.

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  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Dangerous Corner (Wednesday Theatre)”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Dangerous Corner (Wednesday Theatre) primary sources, Dangerous Corner (Wednesday Theatre) archive and Dangerous research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

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This entry incorporates text from “Dangerous Corner (Wednesday Theatre)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.