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Power Games: The Packer-Murdoch War is a film of genre Drama with Lachy Hulme
Power Games: The Packer-Murdoch War (2013)
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Add to a movie listPower Games: The Packer-Murdoch War is an Australian drama-miniseries which screened on the Nine Network in 2013. The miniseries is set in the period 1960-75, when the Murdoch and Packer families collided as they battled for control of Australia’s newspaper and television industries.
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Synopsis
Episode 1: The rivalry between the families dates back to a brawl in 1960, when Sir Frank Packer was trying to take over the Anglican Press, which owned a printing press that would help him take on the Murdoch-acquired Cumberland Press. When publisher Francis James refused to sell, Kerry Packer and some burly friends were sent down to help him change his mind. According to legend, they broke in and forcefully evicted the people still inside, cut the phone lines, changed the locks and barricaded the windows. Francis called upon Rupert Murdoch and boxer turned editor Frank Browne for help. Despite Packer having been an amateur boxer himself, he emerged with black eyes and a badly swollen face. The brawl made headlines in the Murdoch papers.Actors
Lachy Hulme
(Sir Frank Packer)
Luke Ford
(Kerry Packer)
Maeve Dermody
(Anna Torv/Murdoch)
Heather Mitchell
(Gretel Packer)
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