Sunday in the Country | |
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Directed by | John Trent |
Written by | Robert Maxwell John Trent |
Story by | David Main |
Produced by | David Perlmutter |
Starring | Ernest Borgnine Michael J. Pollard Hollis McLaren Louis Zorich Cec Linder |
Cinematography | Marc Champion |
Edited by | Tony Lower |
Music by | Paul Hoffert William McCauley |
Production companies | Impact Films Quadrant Films |
Distributed by | American International Pictures Cinerama Releasing Corporation EMI Films |
Release date |
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Running time | 93 minutes |
Countries | Canada United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Sunday in the Country is a 1974 Canadian-British crime thriller film, directed by John Trent. [1] The film stars Ernest Borgnine as Adam Smith, a country farmer who decides to enact vigilante justice when he discovers fugitive criminal Leroy (Michael J. Pollard) and his accomplices Dinelli (Louis Zorich) and Ackerman (Cec Linder) hiding out in his barn. [2]
The cast also includes Hollis McLaren as Adam's granddaughter Lucy, as well as Vladimír Valenta, Al Waxman, Tim Henry, Murray Westgate, Ralph Endersby, Susan Petrie, Ratch Wallace, Mark Walker, Gary Reineke, Eric Clavering, David Hughes, Franz Russell, Ruth Springford, Alan King, Laddie Dennis, Joan Hurley, Winnifred Springett, Jonathan White, James Barron and Carl Banas in supporting roles. [3]
In his 2003 book A Century of Canadian Cinema, Gerald Pratley identified the film as one of the key progenitors of the trend in 1970s Canadian cinema to cast higher-profile American stars in lead roles to improve the film's international marketability. [1]
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