A Sound of Trumpets

For the Italian film The Sound of Trumpets, see Il Posto.

A Sound of Trumpets is a 1964 Australian drama directed by Henri Safran.^[1]

A Sound of Trumpets
Written by	Donald Bull
Directed by	Henri Safran
Country of origin	Australia
Original language	English
Production
Running time	60 mins
Original release
Release	3 June 1964 (1964-06-03) (Sydney)

Premise

A family want to adopt a refugee boy.

Cast

• Nigel Lovell
• Henry Gilbert
• Peter Wagner
• Mark McManus
• Philippa Baker
• Janice Dinnen as Pam

Reception

The Sydney Morning Herald criticised the "excessive detail" and called it "dour, plodding, earnest" but said it "explored its chosen situation thoroughly enough to illuminate not so much a social problem as the complex interdependence of ordinary family life."^[2]

The Bulletin said "this banal story, of an insufferable do-gooder and his equally insufferable family of long-suffering stereotypes faced with practising what they preach in the adoption of a refugee boy, rubbed its second-hand humanity in the audience's face with all the subtlety of Sonny Liston wielding a nine-pound hammer. Only Janice Dinnen’s remarkably mature performance as the eldest daughter and Ethel Gabriel’s complaining grandmother achieved any semblance of sympathy or credibility."^[3]

See also

• List of television plays broadcast on Australian Broadcasting Corporation (1960s)