Call Me Mr. Brown

Directed by| Scott Hicks
Produced by| Terry Jennings
Starring| Chris Haywood
Vincent Ball
John Frawley

Production
company

Kino Film Co.

Release date

* 1986 (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]

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/.

## External links

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

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