"The Torrents" is a 1969 Australian TV play based on the stage play by Oriel Gray. It was filmed as part of the ABC anthology drama series Australian Plays. It was the second Gray play adapted by the ABC, after Burst of Summer. It aired on 10 December 1969 in Sydney and Melbourne.
Australian TV drama was relatively rare at the time.
Cast Barbara Stephens as J.G. Milford Ken Shorter as Kingsley Myers Alan Hopgood Mark Albiston as Munro Harold Hopkins as Ben Torrents Lyndel Rowe as J.G. Milford Keith Lee as Rufus Torrents
Production It was shot in Melbourne and at Maldon, a small town outside Bendigo. It was designed by Alan Clarke. Railway carriages were hired from the Society of Railway Enthusiasts. The budget could not cover the hiring of an old locomotive so a modern one was used, but this was obscured by a fog machine.
Reception One critic called it "a beauty".
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