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The Arrow is a canadien film of genre Drama directed by Don McBrearty with Dan Aykroyd
The Arrow (1997)
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Add to a movie listThe Arrow is a four-hour miniseries produced for CBC Television in 1996, starring Dan Aykroyd as Crawford Gordon, experienced wartime production leader during World War II and president of A. V. Roe Canada during its attempt to produce the Avro Arrow supersonic jet interceptor. The film also stars Michael Ironside and Sara Botsford. The mini-series is noted as the highest viewership ever for a CBC program.
Other significant individuals in the program, portrayed in the series, include RCAF pilot Flight Lieutenant Jack Woodman (Ron White) who conducted test flights on Avro aircraft but was supplanted by Janusz Żurakowski (Lubomir Mykytiuk) for the first few flights; Jim Chamberlin (Aidan Devine) and James Floyd (Nigel Bennett) in the design team; Edward Critchley (Ian D. Clark) who would be asked to develop an engine for the Arrow when other models became unavailable.
The film also boasted cameos by Michael Moriarty as U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower and Christopher Plummer as the Canadian Minister of Transport George Hees.
Synopsis
L'histoire du CF-105 "Arrow", un intercepteur biplace conçu au Canada dans les années 1950 par la société Avro, au temps de la Guerre froide. Malgré ses performances impressionnantes pour l'époque, seuls quelques prototypes ont volé avant l'abandon complet du programme en 1959.Actors
Dan Aykroyd
(Crawford Gordon Jr.)
Sara Botsford
(Kate O'Hara)
Ron White
(Jack Woodman)
Michael Ironside
(CIA Director)
Aidan Devine
(Jim Chamberlin)
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