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Arrow, The*
- 1997 ----- color ----- 180 min ----- vhs
- (Directed by Don McBrearty, screenplay by Keith Ross Leckie; with Dan Aykroyd, Sara Botsford, Ron White, Aidan Devine, Michael Ironside, Michael Moriarty, Christopher Plummer) This CBC-TV miniseries tells the story of the passion, the betrayal and the players behind the building of the stunning fighter-interceptor jet constructed to defend Canada's vast territory during the Cold War. Cost over-runs, U.S. government intervention and Canadian political agendas grounded the Arrow before it had a fighting chance. A brash young team of designers at Avro Aircrafts and their charismatic new president, Crawford Gordon accept the RCAF challenge to create a radically advanced jet fighter-interceptor to defend Canada against powerful Soviet nuclear bombers capable of attacking over the North Pole. The Avro team races to break al performance records with the Arrow. But the dream begins to unravel in a dark and tragic tale of political ambition, international espionage, subversion and deceit. [Includes CBC-TV documentary on the Arrow produced for The National (36 min) [Closed-Captioned] (Donated by the Department of Canadian Studies) (Restricted to use by institutions of learning within the State of Washington only)
- Topics: (Aero/Astronautics, Canadian Studies, Political Science: American, Political Science: Canadian, War and Peace)
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