Blue Murder - Rogerson shoots Warren Lanfranchi

[TheEgertak]

Rogerson has probably killed more people than Milat. How that scumbag is still alive beats me. He must have plenty of Dirt on a lot of powerful people. If I were related to Lanfranchi I would torture the ex crooked pig until he squeeled and then finish the grub off real slow. IF the authorites were smart they would "Waterboard" Rogerson, imagine how many unsolved murders they would solve.

[MrDee134]

same as 1 & 2.. Blood's pumpikng the whole way.

[MrDee134]

I got a brand new 3 disc from cashies.

[dirtunit]

@MrDee134 Sweet, new "ultimate edition"! What's the 3rd disk? Is the video quality any better?

[neonbladedotcom]

Great series. Lanfranchi (or one of his mates) stole my car (green wagon like in the TV series, but different make) a few days before he was shot.by the Dodger. No-ne ever nicked my car agin after that.

[MrJR1589]

Underbelly is nothing compared to this....blue murder is the best Australian POlice Drama ever made. Underbelly is commercialised crap, made for dumb people

[portadelaide]

WHAT MOST OF YOU NEED TO HEAR IS....alot of this scene is ad libbed ...thats so great on the actor's parts ...woo hoo.!!!!!!!!!!

[jimmah1967]

WHERE'S THE KINDERGARDEN?!?!

[NyteRyd2r]

Where can I buy this in Brisbane?

[dirtunit]

@NyteRyd2r You might still be able to find it in ABC shops, or have a look online.

[jessicana77]

@NyteRyd2r I bought the DVD at JB HI-FI

[jimmah1967]

@NyteRyd2r -the full movie is on youtube....type in 'BLUE MURDER 1995'

[tranjohn]

Just Downloaded the movie! Took bloody 2 weeks with one seeder lol but was well worth the wait;) AWESOME MOVIE!!!

[willandshaylin2008]

rogerson is a lying piece of shit needy smith was as dumb as dog shit yet was given a green light by that scumbag rogerson i have more hatred of a cop that is crooked than just a crook rogerson is and was scum off the earth

[dannydazzler]

"He had to go"

[bloodbears]

I thought neddy was a big fella why the fuck did they use that actor

[Spiritualseeker2007]

This guy happens to be a great actor and he is the same size as ned

[Karkaroff26]

Brilliant and thanks for putting this on Youtube.

[TRUEStoryFILMS]

this is a very good film..when i saw this scene..i just had to watch it...i saw it and loved it,now have it on DVD!

[chigur09]

scum bag had it coming

no loss to society

[mysteryRR]

A bit harsh?

[TCFan25]

Underbelly and Blue Murder are like Holden vs. Ford.... Blue Murder wins hands down

[jimduff15]

without a doubt Blue Murder shits all over underbelly.

[ewanmcd]

Apparently Roger's autobiography is coming out this year. Should be interesting to hear his side of things...

[rimbaud100]

Jonaspv: the screenplay is available from Currency Press. Google Currency Press and you'll see it.

[pscucailin]

Rogerson's gentle wave in his cardigan is a classic. This made him out to be a bloody psychopath. I think that Rogerson always protested innonence.

[treeintervention]

great show,shits on the new underbellys!

[jonaspv]

I have been looking for subtitles for Blue Murder everywhere, anyone knows where I can find them? I can't understand the dialogue in the noisy parts..

[JustinFromSydney]

the robber who got shot had previously pulled a gun in a cops face.

[TrueEventsOfHistory]

this is one of the most chilling scenes i've ever seen in any film ever!

[3aw77]

ned

[cornerstone111]

I liked Lanfranchi's style, spewing he got killed.

[sebbbo77]

Go Neddie ! I love the way he revs up and Lanfranchi !

Neddie would make a perfect school teacher

or boss.

[Dargo25]

Fuckin A Dodger!!!!!

[cam068]

Yes I totally agree with other comments that Underbelly is nothing compared to Blue Murder - and I'm from Melbourne! The rawness of the reality of Blue Murder and totally unpredictable scene structures is what made BM. Richard Roxburough's likeness to Rogerson is very similiar yes, but it's not just his physical appearance, it's the way he moves, the expressions on his face, the way he talks, the whole deal! Love it!

[tattme]

you talk like you know a thing or two,but did u grow up in the life or just look on from the sidelines? not just another know all i was there......

[cam068]

No, I'm a sidelines job. But, I'm also very aware of what it's like 'on the other side'. I'm a goodie and a baddie! Mix with a few baddies and goodies. Thats the way I like it.I get the feeling you could be, or were, not just 'there', but directly and seriously invovled with 'the East Sydney crews' if you know what I mean. There's only one reason why all this corruption happens, and thats because of selfishness, greed and the glory of been 'grubby'.

[tattme]

You fogot survival.mmm

[cam068]

Point taken. I've had to resort to a few 'under the radar' activities in my time, I think everyone does at some stage of their life to 'get by' so to speak. At the end of the day, we know that all cops have got a dark side to them, they HAVE to have - if your shoes to shiny, you won't cut the ice.

[tattme]

The way you put things leeds me to believe that you may be involed with the law and not in the sameway i was.

[cam068]

No. When Roger Rogerson and his crew were on the streets, I was in finishing 6th grade in primary school up in Q'ld. I'm a salesman, but have a strong interest in police matters because of their dramatic nature. I've known a know a few cops and infamous 'characters' down here in Melb. but if I'm not a dog, if I was invovled with the law, Roger Rogerson would look like Humphrey Bear compared to the things that I'd get up to. What was your favourite scene in Blue Murder Tatt? Or the most real?

[tattme]

Without goin into detail its hard to pick a scene from a movie when the life was alot harder,there are alot of people who had major involvement with events at that time who never got named due to other court cases or underage crims not everything you see or hear is true,so how much do you think or know is true?

[tattme]

yeah this is true, but a dog is a dog!!!

[cam068]

Would you beleive that I got the nickname of 'dawg' at a Melbourne Bottle Shop because of this scene!

[tattme]

Thats nice.

[67675656565655656565]

underbelly was very overated and when blue murder came out the guy who wrote the classic movie chinatown said the blue murder script was the best script he had ever read.Also blue murder story was far more interesting than underbelly its amazing what they got away with in those days.He sure would of neddy made the gatto crew look like bitches.Also i ashamed to say my mums uncle was a corrupt senior dective in those days and had dealings with neddy smith.

[heyyoubeindthebushes]

I honestly feel that this is once of the most classiest, grittest, and most realistic Australian crime movie out clear. Underbelly never came near to the realism and raw impact that Blue Muder has, fucking brilliant!

[TheAtraxRobustus]

line of fire (the book) is a top read!That blue in the pub (at the cross) was heaps better than the one gangitano and moran caused at the club!

[67675656565655656565]

moran and gangitano were shit fighters compared to abo henry and neddy smith

[tattme]

abbo henry was nothing but a wanna be never could be, fucken dog how did ya beat the charges henry?????????????????????????­??

[goliath22400]

Watched this for first time other day have to say it was fukin awesome movie better then underbelly imo but Underbelly is still good

[67675656565655656565]

bluemurder was far better than underbelly

[StrangeAredaSlumtung]

how'd this movie slip under the radar?

[DrHoldowicz]

It didn't, everyone I know saw it -maybe you missed it because you were about 9 when it came out??

[StrangeAredaSlumtung]

i heard it took awhile to come out in VIC...

when exactly did it come out?

[DrHoldowicz]

It was restricted in NSW for a while while one of the Rogerson trials was going -it was first screened on ABC in 1995 I think..

[StrangeAredaSlumtung]

still...

this is probably the best aussie film i'd seen, and it wasn't exactly talked about...

[DrHoldowicz]

Yes, it's a great production, and at the time it came out it was talked about a lot! Court orders banning showing it in NSW, Rogerson whingeing it prejudiced his right to a fair trial, etc etc

The actors are a lot better looking than the real characters.. Lanfranchi had a scraggly mullet, head like a robber's dog..

[StrangeAredaSlumtung]

yeh, alex demitriades does look alot better than the original Warren..

but i saw an 80's photo of Rogerson, and Roxburgh's likeness is certainly obvious...

[DrHoldowicz]

Yeah, they look like them, good work, but Roxburgh is a lot better looking than R C Rogerson, I reckon -Rogerson was never stylish, if you get what I mean..

Best thing that ever happened for NSW, the Royal Commission.. By the 80s the coppers were way out of hand, as this movie showed..

Victoria had its moments too, but never as out in the open as Qld and NSW..

[StrangeAredaSlumtung]

cause Melbourne coppers had [and have] to deal with ACTUAL orgaised crime...

the difference is that at the time, Sydney coppers WERE the organised crime! by definition.. they swapped dangerous crims with profitable ones... they had to show restraint though.. Rogerson openly admitted that the Sydney cops had to get rid of Chris Flanery, the melbourne hitman used by Rogerson on numerous occasions, because he just killed anyone he didn't like in Sydney, completly ignoring the politics...

[67675656565655656565]

also the real neddy smith was 6 foot 4 as the guy who played him was only 5ft 10 or 11 i think

[DrHoldowicz]

6 ft 4 and beefy, and not at all worried about what might happen if he biffed someone, which he did quite a lot..

[67675656565655656565]

he was a real phsyco its good he finally got wat he deserved with parksions disease and a life sentence in jail.

[cam068]

MMMM, but NSW and QLD didn't have a statesman running their police force. His name was Mick Miller - a true statesman to say the least. He was in the original 'Russell Street Secret 7". The uncorruptables. Real top notch material. The Victoria Police was absolutely immaculate in the 1980's - squeaky clean. And then he retired and well, all hell broke loose.

[JustinFromSydney]

Immaculate? Uncorruptable?

[cam068]

Yewar 2000 i think because my flatmates boyfriend was all over it when it did and hje used to impersonate Rogerson when he came 'round and all that and this was in 2000, it might have been 1999..

[Panadawn]

Bloody scary when the cops are like that

[DrHoldowicz]

You should have tried living with it -in the 80s in East Sydney/KX, every squad was on the take -consorting, drugs, vice, general duties -tow truck rackets, free fruit & veg, cash pick-ups from brothels and drug dealers, selling drivers licences to bad drivers, they wanted "police discount" on everything from hamburgers to used cars -"The best police force money could buy" as the NSW Police was known..

[JustinFromSydney]

There's nothing corrupt about receiving a discount on food.

[DrHoldowicz]

-Oh, get your hand off it, mate ?

If it just stopped at 20% off hamburgers, there wouldn't have been an issue -but they wanted everything FREE -"Police Discount" meant FREE. Pay nothing for their food, their clothes, as if "Freddy" (their badge) was a gift from God.

Don't you get it ? Discount was the thin edge of a wedge that ended up with coppers running crooks as their employees, as it were, screwing over anyone they could.

Google "Wood Royal Commission" and learn something.

[JustinFromSydney]

Ah yes, the Wood Royal Comission. That thing that was launched by POLITICIANS who were concerned about *Police* being corrupt. I get ya.

[DrHoldowicz]

I don't get where you're coming from -do you not believe the NSW Police was riddled with corruption ? As was QLD Police, etc

As was NSW Premier Robert Askin, various magistrates, sundry Local councils, etc

Back then everything seemed to require a bribe -want to open a restaurant ? Ah, $xxx to get the DA through the council.. want to open a brothel ? Ah, $xxx to the council to open, $xxx to Consorting, $xxx to Vice, $xxx to the Drug Squad, every week they'd turn up to get paid..

[JustinFromSydney]

If everything required a bribe, why was it that only the NSW police had a royal commission launched against them? Was corruption unique to the policing profession such that it required a dedicated commission?

Are we ever going to see a royal commission into political corruption?

[DrHoldowicz]

Umm.. Doh.. NSW was not the only Police Force that had a Royal Comm -Victoria had the board of Inquiry (Beach Report), Qld had the Fitzgerald Inquiry, WA had the WA Police Royal Comm 2002-2004..

Qld now has the Crime & Misconduct Commission that deals with any corruption inc "politicians", NSW has the Crime Commission, WA has the Corruption and Crime Commission..

We now have the Australian Crime Commission..

"Blue Murder" didn't show 10% of Police misconduct, entrenched for decades..

[JustinFromSydney]

uh.. you didn't read what I said.

[DrHoldowicz]

Yes I did read it. I thought your point was naive.

As I answered, other police forces were investigated by Royal Commissions, and other agencies are now covered by corruption commissions -including politicians.

Police forces tend to attract such investigations because no other agency/body has their powers of arrest, detention/is armed with various weapons/has their extensive databases of intelligence and personal information.

But you've never seen a politician investigated/jailed ?

[JustinFromSydney]

There has never been a royal commission into corruption in anything beside a police force. There will never be a royal commision into political corruption because politicians are the ones who instigate royal commissions and they wont launch one into themselves. Police get their power from somewhere, where is that?

[DrHoldowicz]

These will be my last replies to you -because, frankly, you are an idiot -your ignorance is tedious and time-wasting.

You are wrong, again -there are Royal Commissions continually into other matters, eg:

1980-84 RComm into painters & dockers union, 1991-92 WA Inc RComm into the Bond Corp, Aboriginal deaths in custody RComm, 1973-74 Moffitt RComm into corruption in Clubs industry, etc etc

A RComm is just about to start into the Vic bushfires..

[DrHoldowicz]

Royal Commissions are expensive and are not launched about trivia or isolated problems best handled by existing agencies, eg, ICAC or Ombudsman, etc

You keep niggling about "political corruption" without revealing anything like a scenario or any facts..

If a politician is "corrupt" as opposed to incompetent or stupid, he/she can readily be reported to a corruption commission or the ACC -or the TV media -who readily chase such stories.

But you just want to have a generic whinge.. yawn..

[JustinFromSydney]

Of course there are other royal commissions. Rarely are they into corruption, and when they are, they are never as comprehensive as the one into NSW police.

Neither the government, nor anyone they appoint, has the moral foundation to judge whether police are corrupt. Have you never done anything wrong before? Why should police be any different.

[JustinFromSydney]

Politicians have the scope to be more corrupt than any individual police officer, yet they have never appointed a royal commision to investigate themselves.

[DMDreaper666]

nope u will never see any royal commision , only because half the dickheads back in the day that were in on this , ARE the royal commision now mate :) might as well pop them urself the dirty cunts.