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]

Call Me Mr. Brown
Directed byScott Hicks
Produced byTerry Jennings
StarringChris Haywood
Vincent Ball
John Frawley
Production
company
Kino Film Co.
Release date
  • 1986 (1986)
Running time
85 mins
CountryAustralia
LanguageEnglish

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]

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  1. ^ Ed. Scott Murray, Australia on the Small Screen 1970-1995, Oxford Uni Press, 1996 p22
  2. ^ 'Mr Brown' and riddle of the man who just vanished By Richard Macey Sydney Morning Herald 25 May 2002 accessed 22 June 2013
  3. ^ "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.
  4. ^ Scott Hicks at IMDb
  5. ^ "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.
  6. ^ "Qantas in protest about hijack film". Canberra Times. 1 November 1985. p. 11. Retrieved 31 August 2021.
  7. ^ Teeseling, Ingeborg van (21 May 2018). "The bomb on the Qantas flight, and what happened next". The Big Smoke. Retrieved 27 August 2021.
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