Call Me Mr. Brown

Call Me Mr. Brown is a 1986 Australian movie based on the Australian Great Plane Robbery of 1971,[1][2] in which Peter Macari extorted $500,000 from Australian airline Qantas, threatening to blow up flight 755 from Sydney to Hong Kong on 26 May 1971.[3]

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

References

  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. "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.


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