Call Me Mr. Brown

Call Me Mr. Brown
Directed by	Scott Hicks
Produced by	Terry Jennings
Written by	Terry Jennings
Starring	Chris Haywood; Vincent Ball; John Frawley
Edited by	Andrew Prowse
Production; company	Kino Film Co.
Release date	1986;
Running time	85 mins
Country	Australia
Language	English

Call Me Mr. Brown is a 1986 Australian movie based on the 1971 Qantas bomb hoax,^[1]^[2] written and directed by South Australian director Scott Hicks.^[3]^[4]

Plot

In the true story of Australia's 'Great Plane Robbery', petty criminal Peter Marcari, using the pseudonym 'Mr Brown', extorts $500,000 from Australia's national airline Qantas, by threatening to blow up Flight 755 from Sydney to Hong Kong on 26 May 1971. After making a clean getaway, an international manhunt begins.^[5]^[6]

Cast

Chris Haywood as Peter Macari
John Polson as Brian Day
Vincent Ball as Captain Ritchie
John Frawley as Captain Howson
Bill Hunter as Detective Sergeant ‘Jim’ Jack McNeill
Russell Kiefel as Ray Poynting
Max Cullen as Fibreglass Factory Foreman
John Noble as Geoff Fraser
Ken Goodlet as Captain Selwyn
Edwin Hodgeman as Bill Harding
Leo Taylor as Major Morrison
Lyn Collingwood as Woman Caller at Phone Box

Also in credits

Brenton Whittle as Qantas Official 2
Grant Piro as Mt Isa Miner
Damon Herriman as Bowser Boy
Stuart McCreery
Huw Williams
Robert Newman
Damien Wiseman
Michael Norman
Patrick Frost
Celine Griffin
Tony Allison
Adrian Shirley
Henry Salter

Release

Qantas actively tried to stop the film being made^[7] and despite failing to do so, Network 10, which had invested A$250,000 in the film, refrained from airing it. The film was eventually released on video in 1990.^[8]

References

↑ Ed. Scott Murray, Australia on the Small Screen 1970-1995, Oxford University Press, 1996 p22
↑ "'Mr Brown' and riddle of the man who just vanished By Richard Macey", The Sydney Morning Herald 25 May 2002, accessed 22 June 2013
↑ "Papers of Scott Hicks : Summary record ["Info" tab"]. https://collections.slsa.sa.gov.au/resource/PRG+1726/page:5.
↑ Scott Hicks on IMDb
↑ "The true story of the 1971 Qantas bomb hoax – one of Australia's most audacious heists". 22 February 2019. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-02-23/qantas-bomb-hoax-1971-the-great-plane-robbery-australia/10807510.
↑ "Call Me Mr Brown". https://www.screenaustralia.gov.au/screen-guide/call-me-mr-brown-1652/.
↑ "Qantas in protest about hijack film". Canberra Times: pp. 11. 1 November 1985. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article127533979.
↑ Teeseling, Ingeborg van (21 May 2018). "The bomb on the Qantas flight, and what happened next" (in en-US). https://www.thebigsmoke.com.au/2018/05/21/the-bomb-qantas-flight-what-happened-next/.

External links

Call Me Mr. Brown on IMDb
Call Me Mr. Brown at Oz Movies

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[scott-1] Ed. Scott Murray, Australia on the Small Screen 1970-1995, Oxford University Press, 1996 p22

[2] "'Mr Brown' and riddle of the man who just vanished By Richard Macey", The Sydney Morning Herald 25 May 2002, accessed 22 June 2013

[slsa-3] "Papers of Scott Hicks : Summary record ["Info" tab"]. https://collections.slsa.sa.gov.au/resource/PRG+1726/page:5.

[4] Scott Hicks on IMDb

[abc.net.au-5] "The true story of the 1971 Qantas bomb hoax – one of Australia's most audacious heists". 22 February 2019. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-02-23/qantas-bomb-hoax-1971-the-great-plane-robbery-australia/10807510.

[screenaus-6] "Call Me Mr Brown". https://www.screenaustralia.gov.au/screen-guide/call-me-mr-brown-1652/.

[7] "Qantas in protest about hijack film". Canberra Times: pp. 11. 1 November 1985. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article127533979.

[:7-8] Teeseling, Ingeborg van (21 May 2018). "The bomb on the Qantas flight, and what happened next" (in en-US). https://www.thebigsmoke.com.au/2018/05/21/the-bomb-qantas-flight-what-happened-next/.

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