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Who Killed Dr Bogle and Mrs Chandler?

Year of completion
2006
Content type
Documentary
Format
Short
Genre
History
Duration
55 minutes
Production Status
Completed

Synopsis

At last, an answer to one of crime history's great unsolved cases. When the bodies of brilliant physicist Dr Gilbert Bogle and his lover Mrs Margaret Chandler were found in bizarre circumstances on a Sydney riverbank in 1963, it captured the public imagination and launched an unprecedented murder investigation. However, the Coroner could find no cause of death, killer or motive. Some suggested it was a Cold War assassination, others claimed it was an overdose of LSD. Now, four decades later, a new investigation uncovers explosive new evidence.
Completion Year
2006
Genres
History
Format
Short
Production Status
Completed

Cast and Crew

Director

Peter Butt

Executive Producer

Anna Grieve

Writer

Peter Butt

Producer

Peter Butt, Kris Wyld

Director of Photography

Calvin Gardiner

Cast

Nicholas Hope, Octavia Barron-Mentin, Hugo Weaving (narrator)

Awards

2006 — Sydney Morning Herald

2007 — Film Critics' Circle of Australia

2007 — Australian Cinematographers Society Awards National

2006 — Australian Cinematographers Society NSW

2007 — TV Week Logie Awards

Screenings

2007 — Dendy Awards for Australian Short Films

2007 — The Sydney Film Festival

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