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.

Call Me Mr. Brown

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, refused to air it. The film was eventually released on video in 1990.

Call Me Mr. Brown

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

References

External links

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

Call Me Mr. Brown