Call Me Mr. Brown Explained

Call Me Mr. Brown
Director:	Scott Hicks
Producer:	Terry Jennings
Starring:	Chris Haywood Vincent Ball John Frawley
Studio:	Kino Film Co.
Runtime:	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]

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.^[4]

Qantas actively tried to stop the film being made^[5] 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.^[6]

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

External links

• • Call Me Mr. Brown at Oz Movies

Notes and References

1. Ed. Scott Murray, Australia on the Small Screen 1970-1995, Oxford Uni Press, 1996 p22
2. http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/05/24/1022038477530.html 'Mr Brown' and riddle of the man who just vanished By Richard Macey Sydney Morning Herald 25 May 2002
3. Web site: Papers of Scott Hicks : Summary record ["Info" tab]]. State Library of South Australia. 6 May 2022. 26 September 2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20220926104708/https://collections.slsa.sa.gov.au/resource/PRG+1726/page:5. dead.
4. Web site: The true story of the 1971 Qantas bomb hoax - one of Australia's most audacious heists. 22 February 2019. www.abc.net.au. 23 September 2020.
5. News: 1 November 1985. Qantas in protest about hijack film. 11. Canberra Times. 31 August 2021.
6. Web site: Teeseling. Ingeborg van. 21 May 2018. The bomb on the Qantas flight, and what happened next. 27 August 2021. The Big Smoke. en-US.