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Traveller Without Luggage is a 1961 Australian television film directed by Henri Safran and starring Ric Hutton. It was Safran's first English language work.[5][6]

Traveller Without Luggage
Directed by	Henri Safran
Written by	George F. Kerr
Based on	the play Le Voyageur sans bagage by Jean Anouilh
Starring	Ric Hutton
Production company	ABC
Distributed by	ABC
Release dates	16 August 1961 (Sydney)[1] 20 September 1961 (Melboure)[2] 11 December 1962 (Brisbane)[3]
Running time	70 mins[4]
Country	Australia
Language	English

Plot

A man (Ric Hutton) has been in an asylum for 16 years suffering from loss of memory. He is without the memories that the normal person carries with him as "luggage". On the advice of the asylum psychiatrist, he sets out to find his past and spends 24 hours with a family who believe he is their lost son. He discovers he was a seducer, a wife-stealer, and generally vile character, and decides to ditch his old self, adopt a new personality and a new family.

Cast

• Ric Hutton as the Traveller
• Enid Lorimer as the Mother
• Rhod Walker as the brother George
• Patricia Kennedy as the maid
• Clarissa Kaye as the sister in law Valerie
• Gordon Glenwright as Butler
• Brian Gilbert as Small Boy
• Robert McDarra as psychiatrist

Production

The play had been performed at the Sydney University Drama Society in June 1960.[7]

Reception

The critic from The Sydney Morning Herald wrote that the production was marked by "competence rather than exciting path-finding... Desmonde Downing_'s sets rank with the best one has seen in A.B.C. productions; and George Kerr's adaptation of the play, while it reduced many interesting subsidiary threads, nevertheless fairly happily retained the essence of the writing."[8]

References

External links

• Traveller Without Luggage at IMDb

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