Dadah Is Death
- 1988-10-23
- Drama
- Noah Taylor, Hugh Keays-Byrne, Sarah Jessica Parker, Kerry Armstrong, John Polson, Hugo Weaving, Julie Christie, Victor Banerjee, David Field, Frederick Parslow, Mouche Phillips, Jeremy Shadlow, Alex Pinder, Robin Ramsay, Shapoor Batliwalla, Neela Dey, Aldo King
- 3 h. 0 min.
- 4.0/10
- 2
- Australia
- Steve Krantz Productions, Roadshow Coote & Carroll, Home Productions, Samuel Goldwyn Television
Overview:
On 9th of November 1983 two Australians, Kevin Barlow and Geoff Chambers were arrested at Penang Airport in Malaysia carrying 179 grams of Heroin. A crime which in Malaysia carries a mandatory sentence of death... Dadah Is Death (A Long Way From Home) is the true story of Barbara Barlow's desperate attempt to save her son from the Hangmans rope - a courageous effort that involved impassioned pleas to President Reagan, The British Prime Minister, and even the Pope. By July 1986 this international struggle had seemed to reach a hopeless conclusion and all that was left was a mother's love for her son.