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'[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
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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.
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Shown in the first complete program of Australian-made talkies in 1931.
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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
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Works about this Work
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The Long Shadow of 1927
2015
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Studies in Australasian Cinema , vol. 9 no. 3 2015; (p. 230-240)
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The Long Shadow of 1927
2015
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Studies in Australasian Cinema , vol. 9 no. 3 2015; (p. 230-240)
- Melbourne, Victoria,
