Evil Angels

How is that even possible? It reminds me of Humphrey Bogart in A Lonely Place, where it's still Bogart, but you're like, damn, I didn't realize he was able to do this.

But then, I mean, I'm not going to give away plot points, but at the end of Possession, Sam Neill shows up as a different... being different version of the character the movie's hard to explain yeah uh and he had i mean like you know it's not the whole movie like like jeremy irons and in dead ringers but like just the way that he stands and carries himself it's like clearly he's playing a totally different uh guy there All right, so next to me is 1988 and A Cry in the Dark.

Okay, I haven't seen it.

Which, that is the American title.

The Australian title is Evil Angels, which I kind of like, but A Cry in the Dark specifically refers to the thing that happened.

This, I think, goes in a category with movies like Deliverance that have, like, largely been boiled down to, like...

Not catchphrase, but like a quote, you know, like to be like a pig or whatever, you know, a dingo ate my baby that you watch and realize like, oh, this is not like camp at all.

89, okay.

And there's a movie with Meryl Streep? Yes.

A Cry in the Dark.

I watched the trailer

for it last night.

I think it's because people don't know where it's from.

I mean, it became big because of the film Cry in the Dark with Meryl Streep, which had been released in 1988, about a baby

which went missing.

A true story.

Tell the viewers what your first screen role was.

So my very, very first screen role was playing Carly at Chamberlain in Evil Angels.

Yeah.

So it's the Lindy Chamberlain story.

... like, that is probably ...

We would see it as a reference to the Meryl Streep film called A Cry in the Dark, and I learned in Australia it's called Evil Angels.

But, like, it was headline news the tragic death that is, the film [laughs] is about that Americans ...

Like, Seinfeld had a similar joke too of, like, is this seen as, like, too dark a joke in Australia?

Th- Sam Neill played my father in a movie, in a biopic about a very ultimately Australian case.

It was-- The film was called "Evil Angels" in the US.

It was released as "A Cry in the Dark." Uh, and it was about, um, the Lindy Chamberlain story.

He was playing Michael Chamberlain.

Wow.

Okay, so there's a couple of correct answers to this.

In Australia and New Zealand, the movie was called Evil Angels.

Elsewhere around the world, it was called A Cry in the Dark.

It's based on the story of Azaria Chamberlain.

And then for Sam came Riley, Ace of Spies in 1973, This was a career-making title role of real-life spy Sidney Riley in the Houston Films hit miniseries.

Now, despite all the negatives, Graham decided to portray Michael Chamberlain, the husband of Lindy Chamberlain in the 1988 drama Evil Angels.

Yeah.

And he strongly believed the couple... was entirely innocent, and they were wrong by the public

He keeps telling me, I'm trying, Greg.

Michael was cautious and asked about Neil's personal beliefs, and I would have liked to have run the trailer.

They changed the title in America and everywhere else in the world from Evil Angels to A Cry in the Dark, which is what the Americans have renamed our movie.

Yeah.

He was in a lot of great movies.

My Brilliant Career, Evil Angels, Dead Calm.

Yeah, The Vow, The Daughter.

Loved at

Whatever's left.

In A Cry in the Dark, she plays a New Zealand mother unjustly accused of killing her baby.

We're talking about my baby daughter, not some object.

But perhaps her most lauded performance from the 80s is in Sophie's Choice.