The Great Mint Swindle

The fact a totally inaccurate movie (The Great Gold Swindle) was produced not long after the Mickleberg brothers had been conveniently stitched up and incarcerated, and were in the midst of appealing their sentences in a completely corrupt environment, cannot have served their cause well. In fact, this movie probably should have referenced it as such.

Albeit, the first movie was more about how the crime was committed. This superior version, with the benefit of time and the truth having been exposed, virtually serves as a part 2 that picks up on the aftermath that was actually more intricate and interesting.

Shane Bourne plays the dodgy high ranking cop brilliantly, with Grant Bowler as Ray Mickelberg the other standout.

Watch for two of the surviving brothers having their say during the end credits. Really, had this occurred in one of the eastern states, it would have been a far more notorious and notable chapter in the annals of Australian history.