Man of Letters (film)

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Man of Letters
Directed byChris Thomson
Written by Alma De Groen
Based onnovel by Glen Tomasetti
Produced byChris Thomson
Starring Warren Mitchell
Dinah Shearing
Production
company
ABC
Release date
  • 5 August 1984 (1984-08-05)
Running time
83 minutes
CountryAustralia
LanguageEnglish

Man of Letters is a 1984 television film about a womanising academic. [1]

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References

  1. Ed. Scott Murray, Australia on the Small Screen 1970-1995, Oxford Uni Press, 1996 p104