Call Me Mr. Brown (1986)

Directed by

Scott Hicks

Genre

crime

Country

Australia

Runtime

1h 34m

Rated

M

Rating

7.0 of 10 from 2 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A man tries to extort money from an airline by threatening to blow up a plane. The story is based on a real 1971 bomb hoax in Australia.

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What happens

Call Me Mr. Brown is a 1986 Australian movie based on the 1971 Qantas bomb hoax, written and directed by South Australian director Scott Hicks. 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. Qantas actively tried to stop the film being made 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. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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