The Arrow (TV 1997)The true story of how Canada built and destroyed the world's most advanced fighter plane back in the 1950s. Director:Don McBreartyWriter:Keith Ross Leckie |
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The Arrow (TV 1997)The true story of how Canada built and destroyed the world's most advanced fighter plane back in the 1950s. Director:Don McBreartyWriter:Keith Ross Leckie |
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Crawford Gordon
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Sara Botsford | ... |
Kate O'Hara
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Ron White | ... |
Jack Woodman
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| Aidan Devine | ... |
Jim Chamberlin
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| Nigel Bennett | ... |
James (Jim) Floyd
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| Jonathan Whittaker | ... |
Fred Smye
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Ian D. Clark | ... |
Edward Critchley
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| David Brown | ... |
Joe Paloffski
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Catherine Fitch | ... |
Ruby Paloffski
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| Robin Gammell | ... |
C.D. Howe
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Robert Haley | ... | |
| Michael Moriarty | ... | ||
| Michael Ironside | ... |
CIA Director
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| Christopher Plummer | ... |
George Hees
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Mauralea Austin | ... |
June Callwood
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This series tells the story of the world's fastest fighter plane ever built, in 1950's Canada, and how the project was dropped due to political pressure from the United States. Written by Steve Richer <sricher@sympatico.ca>
This is a laudable attempt to portray the destruction of the Canadian aerospace industry by a scheming President Eisenhower and a clueless Prime Minister Diefenbaker. Unfortunately, that part isn't at all true. The Arrow was killed by cost overruns and the near-impossibility of developing a new plane, a new engine and a new radar system all at the same time. The geeky engineer character kind of annoyed me, too. The writers had him inventing about three things that were utterly crucial engineering and aerodynamics breakthroughs all by himself. Sorry, nobody's that good, not even the people who did that work in the first place. A lot of the people in the film are historical characters, some are composites. All in all, I really enjoyed this film, but the aviation geek in me gets irritated by factual errors.