[5] It was based on a play by Hal Porter[6] and directed by Christopher Muir in the ABC's studios in Melbourne.
Amy Armstrong is Sir Rodney's step daughter and resents his new 19 year old wife Selina.
[18] "It's a wonderful part," said Guild, best known for playing the Artful Dodger on stage in the Australian production of Oliver!.
[5] The critic for The Sydney Morning Herald wrote that the play was: Notable as a rare instance of an Australian playwright's attempting to represent the tension between good manners and bad intentions.
The easy and tempting criticism to make of this play is that it is stagey and derivative (with a "Rebecca"-like storm and an Ibsenesque tower of a most clumsily symbolic kind) and that it is as fniitily stocked with curtain lines as anything George Miller might present at the Neutral Bay Music Hall... Much depended in this televised version on its tactfulness in making the most of the play's richly theatrical srrokes without emphasising their potential absurdities.
It is a splendidly theatrical play of its type, and it ought to have made rather better television than it did in Christopher Muir's production.