Remembering hit Aussie film Malcolm at the National Film and Sound Archive in Canberra

By Jane Freebury
Updated April 24 2018 - 9:04pm, first published September 16 2016 - 11:01am

A film about a shy, retiring type whose love of all things mechanical inadvertently draws him into holding up banks was one of the surprise hits of the 1980s. Yes, Malcolm, who is played with impish intelligence by Colin Friels, is happier in his own world of gadgetry than he is in company.

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