Canada’s Sweetheart: The Saga of Hal C. Banks
An American thug is imported to crush the Seafarers’ Union in this exploration of the corrupt state of labour management relations in Canada from the 1940s to the ‘60s.
Director
Donald Brittain
An Officer of the Order of Canada, Brittain was one of Canada’s most respected and prolific documentary filmmakers. A few of his notable films include Fields of Sacrifice, Ladies and Gentlemen... Mr. Leonard Cohen, Memorandum, and the Genie Award-winning Paperland: The Bureaucrat Observed. He wrote the 1975 Oscar-nominated short doc Whistling Smith and co-directed Volcano: An Inquiry Into the Life and Death of Malcolm Lowry, which garnered 6 Canadian Film Awards and an Academy Award nomination.
Writers
Donald Brittain, Richard Nielsen
Cast
Maury Chaykin
Producers
Paul Wright, Donald Brittain, Adam Symansky, Andy Thomson
Genre
Drama
Interests
Biography, History, Social Justice & Politics
Original Language
English
Canadian Distributor
National Film Board (NFB)
