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Publicity still, Table Talk, 1 October 1931, p.20
form y separately published work icon Spur of the Moment single work   film/TV   crime   thriller  
Adaptation of The Spur of the Moment Betty Roland , 1930 single work radio play
Issue Details: First known date: 1931... 1931 Spur of the Moment
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AbstractHistoryArchive Description

'[A] Scotland Yard detective, who is visiting Melbourne, unravels the mystery of a murder in a Collins Street building and clears the name of a young lawyer who is suspected of the crime.'

Source: 'Cinema Notes', Mercury, 6 November 1931, p.5

Notes

  • Note on authorship

    'Mrs. Betty Davis, the young Melbourne playwright who achieved fame at a bound a few months ago with "The Touch of Silk," an intensely human little play, has now achieved the further honour of being one of the first women to write an Australian talkie. Just now at the Palace Theatre in this city two talkies entirely Australian made are being seen and heard and one of them, "Spur of the Moment", is by Mrs. Betty Davis.'

    Source: 'A Woman's Letter: News from the South', The Cairns Post, 15 October 1931, p.8.

  • Shown in the first complete program of Australian-made talkies in 1931.

    Source: https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/29931251

  • 3LO (ABC Radio Melbourne) commissioned Roland to write one-act plays suitable for broadcast, one of which was "The Spur of the Moment," later bought by A. R. Harwood Talkie Productions. 

    Source: https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/242980763

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

Form: screenplay
      1931 .
      Extent: 24 l.p.
      (Manuscript) assertion

      Holdings

      Held at: University of Queensland University of Queensland Library Fryer Library
      Location: The Hanger Collection of Australian Playscripts
      Local Id: H2033

Works about this Work

The Long Shadow of 1927 Ray Edmondson , 2015 single work criticism
— Appears in: Studies in Australasian Cinema , vol. 9 no. 3 2015; (p. 230-240)
The Long Shadow of 1927 Ray Edmondson , 2015 single work criticism
— Appears in: Studies in Australasian Cinema , vol. 9 no. 3 2015; (p. 230-240)
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