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form y separately published work icon Crock of Gold single work   film/TV  
Note: Co-credited with British script-writer Michael Barry, who also produced. Based on a story by Henry C. James.
Issue Details: First known date: 1948... 1948 Crock of Gold
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Film Details - British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) , 1948

Producers:

Michael Barry.

Production Companies:

British Broadcasting Corporation.

Production Designers:

James Bould (settings designer).

Cast:

Fred O'Donovan (Dead Sweet Joe Confior, prospector), Warren Jenkins (Jack Atherton, prospector), Cyril Chamberlain (Mr Lewis, a mine company agent / Man), Charles Rolfe (Arthur Newstead, a publican), Sheila MacKintosh (Clara, his wife), Norman Latimer (Paddy Ryan, prospector), Herbert C. Walton (Jim Escreet, prospector), Reg Varney (Harry Pickering, prospector), Laurence Naismith (Mr Thomson, a company promoter), Richard Hurndall (Sam Jenkins, a mining engineer), Pegeen Mair (Cathleen Connor, Joe's mother), Edward Byrne (Patrick Connor, Joe's father / Man), W.A. Kelly (Father Kelly, a priest / A man with a barrow), Joyce Chancellor (Bridget), Sheila MacKintosh (a woman with a baby), Anthony Bacon (Emigrant), Marguerite Young (Emigrant), Morris Sweden (Tom Jones, gold miner), Horace Sequeira (Will Trelawny, gold miner), John Boxer (Mr Darlington, a promoter), Christine Adrian (Daisy), Charles Lamb (Ted, a barman), Alan Bixter (the pianist), and Ivan Craig (Lofty Saunders).

Release Dates:

Broadcast on BBC Television on 19 February 1948, from 8:30pm.

Settings:
  • Central Australia,
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