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Call Me Mr. Brown

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Call Me Mr. Brown
Directed byScott Hicks
Produced byTerry Jennings
StarringChris Haywood
Vincent Ball
John Frawley
Production
company
Kino Film Co.
Release date
  • 1986 (1986)
Running time
85 mins
CountryAustralia
LanguageEnglish

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]

In the 1971 incident, Peter Macari extorted $500,000 from Australian airline Qantas, threatening to blow up flight 755 from Sydney to Hong Kong on 26 May 1971.[5]

Qantas actively tried to stop the film being made[6] 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.[7]

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
  • Grant Piro
  • Damon Herriman
  • Stuart McCreery
  • Huw Williams
  • Robert Newman
  • Damien Wiseman
  • Michael Norman
  • Patrick Frost
  • Celine Griffin
  • Tony Allison
  • Adrian Shirley
  • Henry Salter

References

  1. ↑ Ed. Scott Murray, Australia on the Small Screen 1970-1995, Oxford Uni Press, 1996 p22
  2. ↑ 'Mr Brown' and riddle of the man who just vanished By Richard Macey Sydney Morning Herald 25 May 2002 accessed 22 June 2013
  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
  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. 
  6. ↑ "Qantas in protest about hijack film". Canberra Times: pp. 11. 1 November 1985. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article127533979. 
  7. ↑ 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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