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]

What?!

Oh my god. I have no idea how this one ended up in my rental list (must have been my house mate) but it is rubbish!! Don't watch it. I managed to watch 10 or 15 minutes then had to turn it off. Bad acting, bad filming, bad music. It is rubbish. Don't do it to yourself. This is a warning.