3 Acts of Murder(2009)

3 Acts of Murder is a film about one of Australia's most sensational true crime cases. In 1928, crime writer Arthur Upfield drafted a murder plot for his novel The Sands of Windee—only to have his friend, stockman Snowy Rowles, execute the scheme in real life before the book was published. The case became a landmark trial of the 1930s and thrust Upfield into international prominence. The film traces how fiction and reality collided in this dark chapter of Australian criminal history, examining the strange intersection between Upfield's imagination and Rowles's deadly actions.