Movie: The Riddle of the Stinson

Top 10 Billed Cast

Jack Thompson
Jack Thompson

Bernard O'Reilly

Norman Kaye
Norman Kaye

Joseph Binstead

Richard Roxburgh
Richard Roxburgh

John Proud

Huw Williams
Huw Williams

James Westray

Susan Lyons
Susan Lyons

Jean Batten

Mark Lee
Mark Lee

Bert Shepherd

Frank Wilson
Frank Wilson

G. A. Robinson

John Allen
John Allen

Claude Smyth

Barry Hill
Barry Hill

Edgar Johnson

Russell Newman
Russell Newman

Rolly Graham

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    A true story. In 1937, a routine passenger and mail flight crashes during bad weather on a flight between Brisbane and Sydney. A local bushman begins his own search, and finds the wreckage and two survivors ten days after the crash.

  • Release Date

    1988-07-25

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    7.167

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