Street Machine

TWO HANDS 1999

A FEW minutes into Two Hands, we’re outside a strip club on Darlinghurst Road, Kings Cross, when two menacing Aussie legends fill up the frame: actor Bryan Brown in the passenger seat of a purple XA GT hardtop. It’s an arresting, iconic image.

Brown plays Pando, the local crime boss, and the GT is the prized possession of his merciless enforcer, Acko (Field).

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