Call Me Mr. Brown | |
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Directed by | Scott Hicks |
Produced by | Terry Jennings |
Starring |
Chris Haywood Vincent Ball John Frawley |
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]
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]