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The Englishman's Boy is a canadien film of genre Drama directed by John N. Smith with Bob Hoskins
The Englishman's Boy (2008)
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Add to a movie listThe Englishman's Boy is a novel by Guy Vanderhaeghe, published in 1996 by McClelland and Stewart, which won the Governor General's Award for English language fiction in 1996 and was nominated for the Giller Prize. It deals with the events of the Cypress Hills Massacre (1873) as told 50 years later to a young screenwriter in Hollywood by the last living survivor.
Actors
Bob Hoskins
(Damon Ira Chance)
Nicholas Campbell
(Shorty McAdoo)
Michael Therriault
(Harry Vincent)
R.H. Thomson
Katharine Isabelle
Tantoo Cardinal
(Little Soldier's Wife)
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