Call Me Mr. Brown

1986 Australian film

1986 (1986)

Running time

85 minsCountryAustraliaLanguageEnglish

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

Chris Haywood as Peter Macari
Vincent Ball as Captain Richie
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

References

^ Ed. Scott Murray, Australia on the Small Screen 1970-1995, Oxford Uni Press, 1996 p22
^ 'Mr Brown' and riddle of the man who just vanished By Richard Macey Sydney Morning Herald 25 May 2002 accessed 22 June 2013
^ "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.
^ Scott Hicks at IMDb
^ "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.
^ "Qantas in protest about hijack film". Canberra Times. 1 November 1985. p. 11. Retrieved 31 August 2021.
^ Teeseling, Ingeborg van (21 May 2018). "The bomb on the Qantas flight, and what happened next". The Big Smoke. Retrieved 27 August 2021.