of the Canadian film industry.
I saw SECRET NATION on a late night slot on C.B.C.- Channel 9 out of Windsor. Suffering a peculiar interest in Newfoundland and Labrador, I was instantly captivated by the locale and the historical premise of this low-key "conspiracy" film, the kind of tale that makes one say, "By jove, something like that could have happened."
Casting is good. The heroine is not a Julia Roberts or Farah Fawcett clone; the other characters are most believable, and the bloke who plays Joey Smallwood is creepy he looks so realistic. The Grand Old Man died in 1991 or '2, and I am not sure if his passing was the inspiration for SECRET NATION, or whether story was based on an earlier work (which seems reasonable).
Canadian film is well worth catching for its own sake, even for gringos who might be a bit foggy on the geography and history of the Peaceable Kingdom. One need know nothing of Newfoundland in the 1940s to appreciate this political who-done-it.
I saw SECRET NATION on a late night slot on C.B.C.- Channel 9 out of Windsor. Suffering a peculiar interest in Newfoundland and Labrador, I was instantly captivated by the locale and the historical premise of this low-key "conspiracy" film, the kind of tale that makes one say, "By jove, something like that could have happened."
Casting is good. The heroine is not a Julia Roberts or Farah Fawcett clone; the other characters are most believable, and the bloke who plays Joey Smallwood is creepy he looks so realistic. The Grand Old Man died in 1991 or '2, and I am not sure if his passing was the inspiration for SECRET NATION, or whether story was based on an earlier work (which seems reasonable).
Canadian film is well worth catching for its own sake, even for gringos who might be a bit foggy on the geography and history of the Peaceable Kingdom. One need know nothing of Newfoundland in the 1940s to appreciate this political who-done-it.