Newspaper - Newspaper clipping, The West Australian, Film project worries war heroine, August 21 1987

Historical information

This story explains Vivian Bullwinkel's concerns around the television drama being made about her her war service and time as a Japanese POW. Vivian had promised her story to another production company, and is worried the company now working on the drama may be sensationalise the story and destroy the meaning and truth of one of the worst atrocities of the war. Matt Carroll, the executive producer of the production company, Roadshow, Coote and Carroll, was unaware Vivian had signed an exclusive contract with Crawford Production, after research by his company on the story had been completed.

Physical description

Newspaper clipping from a larger page with a black and white photo of a smiling older woman and four columns of text

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