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Hounds of Notre Dame
Hounds of Notre Dame
Directed by	Zale Dalen
Written by	Ken Mitchell
Produced by	Fil Fraser
Starring	Thomas Peacocke; Frances Hyland; Barry Morse; David Ferry
Cinematography	Ron Orieux
Edited by	Barry Freeman
Music by	Maurice Marshall
Production; companies	Famous Players; Fraser Films; Pere Films
Distributed by	Pan-Canadian Film Distributors
Release date	October 10, 1980;
Running time	99 minutes
Country	Canada
Language	English
Budget	$ 1,200,000

The Hounds of Notre Dame is a 1980 Canadian drama film directed by Zale Dalen.

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The Hounds of Notre Dame is about 36 hours in the life of Père Athol Murray, a hard-drinking, chain-smoking Catholic priest, teacher, political activist and coach of the school hockey team, The Hounds. Peacocke gives a powerful performance as Murray, who defies his superior and gives anti-CCF (Co-operative Commonwealth Federation) speeches in 1940s Saskatchewan. The film received outstanding reviews and Peacocke won a Genie Award for best actor, but it received only limited distribution and came to symbolize the problems inherent in producing quality Canadian features.^[1]

Reception edit

The film earned 9 Genie Award nominations in 1981 in the categories of:

References edit

^ Wise, Wyndham (2001). Take One's Essential Guide to Canadian Film. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. p. 102. ISBN 0-8020-3512-4. Retrieved March 30, 2017.

External links edit

Hounds of Notre Dame at IMDb
Hounds of Notre Dame at AllMovie

[1] Wise, Wyndham (2001). Take One's Essential Guide to Canadian Film. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. p. 102. ISBN 0-8020-3512-4. Retrieved March 30, 2017.

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