The Amorous Dentist

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The Amorous Dentist
Based onThe Amorous Dentist: A True Story
by Robert Travers
Written by Ted Roberts
Directed by Peter Fisk
Starring Robert Grubb
Country of originAustralia
Original languageEnglish
Production
ProducerAlan Burke
Running time75 mins
Original release
Network ABC
Release1983 (1983)

The Amorous Dentist is a 1983 Australian television film which was the second of four telemovies called Verdict produced by the ABC dramatising real cases (the others being The Dean Case , Who Killed Hannah Jane?, and The Schippan Mystery ). [1] It is based on the case of Dr Louis Bertrand. [2]

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Premise

In 1865, Sydney-based dentist Dr Louis Bertrand falls in love with a patient's wife. When the patient dies he is arrested for murder. [3]

Cast

Reception

Paul Bailey of The Sydney Morning Herald says historical drama has "stylish costumes, lavish sets and a script which is as charming as it is inconsequential." He writes it "might put the occasional smile on your face but it will never produce a hearty guffaw". [2] The Age's Damien Kingsbury notes "This ABC-produced drama is so melodramatic in places that it is hard to take at all seriously; yet the storyline comes from a book about one of the most celebrated court cases of 19th century Sydney." later saying "there is a small twist in the direction of the play and it finishes on a pathetic and anti-climactic note, the animal passions and violence which carried it well and truly dispersed." [4] Also in the Age Brian Courtis writes "There is undue concentration on the gorier marvels produced by make-up and not enough on the pace of the show. It grinds on and on, like one of those old-fashioned dentist's drills bearing down on a stubborn tooth." [5]

References

  1. ↑ "Waters and Thornton to star in new Crawford mini-series". The Canberra Times . Vol. 57, no. 17, 158. Australian Capital Territory, Australia. 19 September 1982. p. 13. Retrieved 12 February 2017– via National Library of Australia.
  2. 1 2 Bailey, Paul (25 April 1983), "NB sceptics: it's not scandalous", The Sydney Morning Herald
  3. ↑ Ed. Scott Murray, Australia on the Small Screen 1970-1995, Oxford Uni Press, 1996 p5-6
  4. ↑ Kingsbury, Damien (28 April 1983), "Dentist with a difference", The Age
  5. ↑ Courtis, Brian (29 April 1983), "'Amourous Dentist' a tiresome grind", The Age


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