Dark Summer (ITV 1957 with Tom Criddle and Elvi Hale)

UK / ITV Network-ATV-HM Tennant / 1×60 minute episode / Broadcast Thursday 9 May 1957 @ 8.00pm black and white

Writer: Dennis Webb / Play: Wynyard Browne / Producer: Peter Potter

Drama produced for the Television Playhouse strand. The story of a pilot blinded during world war II and the four women who look after him. There is his mother, his finacee, an Austrian refugee and a lonely spinster.

cast
Tom Criddle as Stephen Hadow
Elvi Hale as Judy Van Haan
Margot van der Burgh as Gisela Waldstein
Nora Nicholson as Miss Loder
Madeleine Christie as Mrs Hadow

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