The Great Mint Swindle to air in March
The story of Australia’s most famous gold heist is due to premiere on TV on 11 March.
Nine has announced The Great Mint Swindle produced by Cordell Jigsaw will air Sunday 11 March at 8:30pm.
Directed by Geoff Bennett and written by Reg Cribb and Paul Bennett, the telemovie based on real events, stars Grant Bowler, Tod Lasance and Josh Quong Tart as brothers Ray, Peter and Brian Mickelberg, three Perth brothers accused of orchestrating the robbery of 49 gold bars from the city’s mint.
Filmed around Perth and Fremantle, the project carries an estimated $3m budget.
It’s the first of a string of high profile, factual telemovies expected for Nine including Beaconsfield about the Tasmanian mining disaster, Howzat based around the rise of Kerry Packer’s International One Day Test series.
This week Cordell Jigsaw announced a merger with Andrew Denton and Anita Jacoby’s Zapruder’s Other Films, making the company the largest independent TV production company in Australia.
