Hounds of Notre Dame | |
Director: | Zale Dalen |
Producer: | Fil Fraser |
Starring: | Thomas Peacocke Frances Hyland Barry Morse David Ferry |
Music: | Maurice Marshall |
Studio: | Famous Players Fraser Films Pere Films |
Cinematography: | Ron Orieux |
Editing: | Barry Freeman |
Distributor: | Pan-Canadian Film Distributors |
Runtime: | 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.
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]