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Fires of Envy
195729 min 25 secFilm: Fiction
Direction: Don Haldane
Production: Julian Biggs
Script: W.O. Mitchell
A dramatization of Canadian author W.O. Mitchell's penetrating story about the racial prejudice encountered by a Polish immigrant farmer in a rural Saskatchewan community. Presented with the incisiveness characteristic of Mitchell's Jake and the Kid radio series, this film story employs homespun events of a farming community to lay bare some universal truths about the unthinking discrimination practiced against a man who is different from his English-speaking fellow farmers. (Telecast as Going to a Fire in the Perspective television series.)
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Subject categories
- Literature and Language > Adaptations of Literary Works
- Literature and Language - Canada > Adaptations of Literary WorksCanadian Literature
- Cultural Diversity and Multiculturalism > DiscriminationEuropean OriginsPrairies
- Social Issues > Discrimination and StereotypingImmigrant Experience
Credits
- director
- Don Haldane
- producer
- Julian Biggs
- script
- W.O. Mitchell
- photography
- John Foster
- sound
- Erik Nielsen
- editing
- Tony Lower
- sound editing
- Kathleen Shannon
- cast
- John Vernon