CRIMEBROKER
Australia, 1993, 93 minutes, Colour.
Jacqueline Bisset, Massaya Kato, John Bach, Gary Day.
Directed by Ian Barry.
Crime Broker is a glossy thriller, set in Sydney, with local cast and an international star, Jacqueline Bissett. She portrays a magistrate, bored with her life,
giving advice for security van robberies. Gary Sweet is her accomplice. John Bach appears as her husband and Gary Day is the local investigator. Victoria Longley has a supporting role as a police woman. The film is an international co-production including Japanese money, hence the Japanese star - as the psychotic killer.
The film is quite smoothly made, designed for easy watching - and, one hopes, far fetched in its plot.
1. Entertaining police and crime thriller, the magistrate’s criminal contacts, investigation, international contacts? The plausibility of the plot? Resolution -
and morality?
2. The title, the focus on the judge, her work, interventions, cover-ups, going to action in the robbery?
3. The Sydney settings, city, offices, courts, banks? Musical Score?
4. Jacqueline Bissett and her work as a magistrate? Her performance in court? Her relationship with her husband? At home, love, comfortable arrangements? Her step-daughter and discussions and advice? Her contact with Blair, her disguise and routine, going to visit him, discussions? Her meticulous plans? Her collecting of the money? Surveillance and supervision? Her relationship with Goodwin, memories of the past relationship, not marrying him? His attentions, investigation? The Japanese expert, her having to entertain him? Taking him home? His advances? His pursuit of her,
the photo in the van? His plans, the affair, involving her? The robbery and the killing? His hold over her and her response? The art gallery anal the sexual en
counter? Her finally realizing his criminal mentality and madness? Her plan to trap him? The gallery and the robbery? The irony of his sending the tape and in
formation to Goodwin? The final confrontation with Goodwin and leaving it to him to make the decision and do what is right?
5. Dr. Okazaki? Young, arrival? Criminology expert? The attention of the police? The meeting with Goodwin and the clash? His observation of the robberies? The meeting with the magistrate? His attention, sexual advances? Discovery of the photo, the truth? His hold over her? The planning of the robbery, its execution, his ruthlessness and killing? The discovery of the truth about him? Serial killer, the murder of Blair, the discussions with Jill anal his killing her? The confrontation with the magistrate, the buying of the railway ticket? The robbery, the fight and his death? His revenge on the magistrate?
6. Frank, style at home, relationship with his wife, daughter? The art world? The Japanese guest? At the opening and the appeal for money? His clash with his wife over her affair?
7. Goodwin, police work, tough, the investigations? Friendship with the magistrate? The Japanese visitor? The truth? The final confrontation?
8. The police and their investigation? The nature of the robberies? Meticulous planning and timing? The deaths? Jill and her investigation - her discovering the Japanese in the picture, her death? His burying them in the abandoned warehouse and the magistrates discovering the bodies?
9. Variation on police thrillers and investigations? Security Van Robberies? The amorality of the magistrate, her being bored with her work, using her knowledge of the criminal mentality? The robberies as a hobby? Her involvement with the Japanese - the irony of criminology, the murder of the expert and the madman assuming his identity?
