The Amorous Dentist Explained

The Amorous Dentist
Director:	Peter Fisk
Producer:	Alan Burke
Based On:	novel by Robert Travers
Starring:	Robert Grubb
Distributor:	ABC
Runtime:	75 mins
Country:	Australia
Language:	English

The Amorous Dentist is a 1983 Australian television film which was the second of four telemovies called Verdict produced by the ABC dramatising real cases (the others being The Dean Case, Who Killed Hannah Jane?, and The Schippan Mystery).^[1]

Premise

In 1865, Sydney-based dentist Dr Louis Bertrand falls in love with a patient's wife. When the patient dies he is arrested for murder.^[2]

Cast

• Robert Grubb as Dr. Louis Bertrand
• Juliet Jordan as Maria Kinder
• Robin Bowering as Henry Kinder
• David Atkins as Alfred Burne
  • Rhys McConnochie Elaine Mangan as Jane Bertrand
• Ron Haddrick as Butler

External links

• The Amorous Dentist at Austlit
  • The Amorous Dentist at Screen Australia

Notes and References

1. News: Waters and Thornton to star in new Crawford mini-series. 19 September 1982. The Canberra Times. 12 February 2017. 17,158. Australian Capital Territory, Australia. 57. 13. National Library of Australia.
2. Ed. Scott Murray, Australia on the Small Screen 1970-1995, Oxford Uni Press, 1996 p5-6