Alien Thunder

Alien Thunder
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Directed by Claude Fournier
Produced by Marie-José Raymond
Written by George Malko
Starring Donald Sutherland
Gordon Tootoosis
Chief Dan George
Kevin McCarthy
Jean Duceppe
Music by Georges Delerue
Cinematography Claude Fournier
Edited by Yves Langlois
Production
company
Onyx Films
Distributed by Ambassador Film Distributors (Canada)
American International Pictures (USA release)
Cinerama Releasing Corporation
Release date
 February 22, 1974
Running time
 93 minutes
Country Canada
Language English
Budget $1,500,000

Alien Thunder (also known as Dan Candy's Law) is a 1974 Canadian western film directed by Claude Fournier and starring Donald Sutherland.

Synopsis

Set in 1880s Saskatchewan at the time of the North-West Rebellion, Alien Thunder is based on a true story about a Woods Cree (Gordon Tootoosis in his first film role) who kills a North-West Mounted Police sergeant (Kevin McCarthy) under desperate circumstances. Hunted for two years by the sergeant's resolute partner (Donald Sutherland), the ending brings tragedy for all those involved.

Release

The movie was not a financial success.[1]"Suspense is lacking and characters are generally underdeveloped, as is the tension between the Mounties and the Indians." – Natalie Edwards, Cinema Canada

Cast

Production

Its filming locations were in Saskatchewan's Battleford, Duck Lake, and Saskatoon.

References

  1. ↑ https://books.google.com/books?id=OwwjSEJSMHQC&pg=PA1015&lpg=PA1015&dq=Alien+Thunder+1974&source=bl&ots=AdRvK5BbQa&sig=B9B29f_HB7pi1VdqT-QHDtwqNxA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwis-eGFqdHNAhUL9YMKHQN8A944ChDoAQhVMAk#v=onepage&q=Alien%20Thunder%201974&f=false


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