Bangkok Hilton Details

Bangkok Hilton

This Australian series came out in the late eighties and gripped Australian viewers. It is thrilling, sad, hopeful. An innocent woman in life and love tries to find her real father and travels to London from Australia. She meets a man who hides inside her camera bag, a stash of drugs which are uncovered by customs in Bangkok. She is of course, inoccent - her so called boyfriend the culprit. Realising the seriousness of her situation and coming to realise Thailand's hard line against drugs and the real possibility she could face the death penalty, she contacts a lawyer who knows her father. He agrees to help her and her father represents her. Kidman, at first has no idea who the man representing her is - he is played by Elliot who is superb as a disgraced army officer from the Japanese war - living in Thailand and coping with alcoholism. It goes deep into the characters and Kidman's cell mate is brilliant. It climaxes into a thrilling conclusion with many questions answered. The fact that Thailand is so strict with drugs, you feel a real empathy and sypathy toward the inoccent and naive Kidman. If you can get past the initial two epsisodes, it culminates into a brilliant series that you will want to watch again.

[Highly rated reviewer]

still good

I found it absolutely engrossing.

The drug traffic/Thai prison/machine gun thing is a little cliched these days but this series has so much more to it in terms of storyline and themes.

The characters are complex, but their actions are rendered entirely believable by a superb cast(take a look at the list). Nicole Kidman in particular is great in her potrayal of the shy/awkward but determined heroine of the story.

It all builds to an edge of the seat finale.

Highly recommended if you like well acted thrillers.