Reliable (also known as My Entire Life[2]) is a 1996 film directed by Nadia Tass based on the true story of the Wally Mellish siege, starring Colin Friels and Jacqueline McKenzie.

In 1968, Wally Mellish has just been released from Long Bay Jail, moving into a new house in the Sydney suburb of Glenfield with his girlfriend, Beryl, and her baby.

All are expecting an "American-style" siege situation, and the NSW Police are keen to publicly display their patience with Mellish having recently been accused of excessive force while handling protests against the Vietnam War.

Eventually, the police offer him in a deal in which he will come out and surrender himself with no charges laid, on condition that he publicly announces he will go and fight in Vietnam "to make up for the trouble (he's) caused."

This lack of education disqualifies him from military service, and since the police agreed that charges would not be laid, he returns to his house in Glenfield to continue with his life.

[5] Mellish denied these claims, later telling the Sydney Morning Herald: "I swear on my kids' dying oath that the wedding was 100 per cent fact.

Upon release, NSW Police told him to leave the state - which he did, moving to Queensland, remarrying and living the rest of his life out under the alias "John Mellish.