For the Term of His Natural Life (Also Includes Wild Duck)

EDITORIAL REVIEWS
FOR THE TERM OF HIS NATURAL LIFE aired on Australian television in 1983 as a two part series directed by Rob Stewart, starring Colin Friels, Anthony Perkins, Patrick Macnee, Diane Cilento and Samantha Eggar. FOR THE TERM OF HIS NATURAL LIFE was based on the novel by Marcus Clarke, first serialized in Australia in the late 1800s and the subject of an early feature film in 1927. The mini series tells the story of a young English gentleman (Friels) wrongfully convicted of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment at a Tasmanian penal settlement. Adopting the name Rufus Dawes to protect his family, he tries to survive the rigors of hard labor but gradually becomes a hardened convict. His manner is softened when he falls in love with the young daughter of an officer at the colony. When Dawes learns that his English title and inheritance have been stolen from him during his incarceration, he escapes and seeks revenge on those who wronged him. THE WILD DUCK was Simon Walker's first feature film score, based on Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen's tragicomedy. Directed by French-born Australian filmmaker Henri Safran and adapted and anglicized by the director along with Tutte Lemkow and John Lind with additional material by Peter Smalley, the film starred Jeremy Irons, Liv Ullmann, Lucinda Jones, Arthur Dignam, and Michael Pate. Set in a small industrial Australian town THE WILD DUCK concerns a couple, Harold and Gina (Irons and Ullmann), who are forced to answer for the legitimacy of their adolescent daughter Henrietta (Jones) when her true father, Gregory (Dignam), comes to town. Figuring into the drama is a wild duck that has been wounded by Gregory's father (Pate) and rescued by Henrietta; its symbolism looms over the stifling household as personalities reach a heartrending climax.

1: Main Title/Coming Home
2: Lord Bellasis' Watch
3: Convicted
4: The Mutiny
5: The Penal Colony
6: Dawes and Sylvia/The Flogging
7: Hallucination
8: Escape from the Rock
9: Caught Again
10: The Chains Removed
11: Dawes Considers Escape
12: 'Why Don't You Kill Him?'
13: The Rescue
14: Fight in the Coal Mine
15: Impersonations
16: The Escape/Arrival at Sydney Harbour
17: The Goldfields/A New Friendship
18: Frere's Death
19: The Conspiracy Revealed
20: Sylvia and Dawes Reunited (End Titles)
21: Main Title Part 1
22: Main Title Part 2
23: Train Station Reunion/Boys Night Out
24: Coffee Time
25: Most Important Thing in Life Is Truth
26: Good Night
27: Chickens
28: I Think He Wants Something Else
29: Night Time
30: She Isn't Mine?
31: Despair
32: Suicide Attempt
33: Finale

Number of Discs: 1

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