The Amorous Dentist

The Amorous Dentist
Based onThe Amorous Dentist: A True Story
by Robert Travers
Written byTed Roberts
Directed byPeter Fisk
StarringRobert Grubb
Country of originAustralia
Original languageEnglish
Production
ProducerAlan Burke
Running time75 mins
Original release
NetworkABC
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]

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.[2]

Cast

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. ^ Ed. Scott Murray, Australia on the Small Screen 1970-1995, Oxford Uni Press, 1996 p5-6