A highly fictionalized account of the actual events. For a start the actual siege was in winter in New South Wales, not summer in Queensland as filmed. Glenfield in 1968 was not a deserted dusty piece of industrial outback wasteland but a suburb of low rent fibros, side by side.
And there was no Hollywood style ending for the career criminal Mellish. He was not accepted by the Army but instead he was interned for a term in a psychiatric hospital. Soon after release he was jailed for 3 years for demanding money with menaces.
Beryl Muddle divorced him immediately and Mellish never saw her again.
So much for "this is a true story".
Talk about making a celluloid hero out of a total loser.
And there was no Hollywood style ending for the career criminal Mellish. He was not accepted by the Army but instead he was interned for a term in a psychiatric hospital. Soon after release he was jailed for 3 years for demanding money with menaces.
Beryl Muddle divorced him immediately and Mellish never saw her again.
So much for "this is a true story".
Talk about making a celluloid hero out of a total loser.