''Call Me Mr. Brown'' is a 1986 Australian movie based on the

1971 Qantas bomb hoax The 1971 Qantas bomb hoax was an extortion and robbery committed by Peter Macari and Raymond Poynting on 26 May 1971, where Macari, under the alias of "Mr. Brown", extorted $500,000 from Qantas by informing officials that he had hidden a bomb on ...

,Ed. Scott Murray, ''Australia on the Small Screen 1970-1995'', Oxford Uni Press, 1996 p22 written and directed by

South Australia South Australia (commonly abbreviated as SA) is a States and territories of Australia, state in the southern central part of Australia. With a total land area of , it is the fourth-largest of Australia's states and territories by area, which in ...

n director Scott Hicks. In the 1971 incident, Peter Macari extorted $500,000 from Australian airline

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, threatening to blow up flight 755 from

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Hong Kong Hong Kong)., Legally Hong Kong, China in international treaties and organizations. is a special administrative region of China. With 7.5 million residents in a territory, Hong Kong is the fourth most densely populated region in the wor ...

on 26 May 1971.

actively tried to stop the film being made and despite failing to do so,

Network 10 Network 10 (commonly known as the 10 Network, Channel 10 or simply 10) is an Australian commercial television network. It is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Paramount Global's UK & Australia division and is one of the five national free-to-a ...

, which had invested A$250,000 in the film, refused to air it. The film was eventually released on video in 1990.

Cast

Chris Haywood Chris Haywood (born ) is an English-born Australian actor, writer and producer, with close to 500 screen performances to his name. Haywood has also worked as a casting director, art director, sound recordist, camera operator, gaffer, grip, lo ...

as Peter Macari *

Vincent Ball Vincent Martin Ball, (born 4 December 1923) is an Australian retired actor of film, theatre and radio active in the industry for nearly 55 years (with a brief return) firstly in Britain starting in the late 1940s and then his native Australia ...

as Captain Ritchie * John Frawley as Captain Howson * Bill Hunter as Detective Sergeant ‘Jim’ Jack McNeill *

Max Cullen Maxwell Phillip Cullen (born 29 April 1940) is an Australian stage and screen actor. He has appeared in many Australian films and television series but is best known for his role in the film '' Spider and Rose'' and the television series '' The ...

as Fibreglass Factory Foreman *

John Polson John Polson (born 6 September 1965) is an Australian actor, director and founder of Tropfest. Polson is perhaps best known for his role starring opposite Russell Crowe and Jack Thompson in '' The Sum of Us'' (1994). In February 2001, Polson ...

as Brian Day *

John Noble John Noble (born 20 August 1948) is an Australian actor. He is best known for his roles as Denethor in ''The Lord of the Rings'' film trilogy (2001–2003), and Dr. Walter Bishop in the Fox science fiction series '' Fringe'' (2008–2013). ...

as Geoff Fraser * Ken Goodlet as Captain Selwyn *

Russell Kiefel Russell John Kiefel (1951 – 20 November 2016) was an Australian stage (theatre), stage, film and television actor. After graduating from the National Institute of Dramatic Art, Kiefel started his screen acting career with a role in the 1977 fea ...

as Ray Poynting *

Edwin Hodgeman Edwin Hodgeman (born 26 June 1935) is an Australian actor. He was born in Adelaide, South Australia. He is known for playing Dr Dealgood in ''Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome'' in (1985). Selected filmography * '' Love and War: L'Flaherty, VC'' as ...

as Bill Harding * Leo Taylor as Major Morrison *

Lyn Collingwood Lyn Collingwood (born 6 September 1936 in Sydney), credited also as Lynn Collingwood, is an Australian actress, writer and historian. Collingwood was born in Sydney, New South Wales, and started her early career as an English, drama and histor ...

as Woman Caller at Phone Box

References

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''Call Me Mr. Brown''
at Oz Movies Australian crime drama films Qantas Films directed by Scott Hicks 1986 films 1980s English-language films 1980s Australian films {{1980s-Australia-film-stub