Call Me Mr. Brown

1986 Australian film

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, refused to air it. The film was eventually released on video in 1990.[7]

## Cast

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

## References

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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]". State Library of South Australia. Archived from the original on 26 September 2022. Retrieved 6 May 2022.
4. ^ Scott Hicks at IMDb
5. ^ "The true story of the 1971 Qantas bomb hoax - one of Australia's most audacious heists". www.abc.net.au. 22 February 2019. Retrieved 23 September 2020.
6. ^ "Qantas in protest about hijack film". Canberra Times. 1 November 1985. p. 11. Retrieved 31 August 2021.
7. ^ Teeseling, Ingeborg van (21 May 2018). "The bomb on the Qantas flight, and what happened next". The Big Smoke. Retrieved 27 August 2021.

## External links

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

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Films directed by Scott Hicks

* Down the Wind (1975)
* Freedom (1982)
* Call Me Mr. Brown (1986)
* Sebastian and the Sparrow (1988)
* Shine (1996)
* Snow Falling on Cedars (1999)
* Hearts in Atlantis (2001)
* No Reservations (2007)
* Glass: A Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts (2007)
* The Boys Are Back (2009)
* The Lucky One (2012)
* Fallen (2016)

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