A Whale For The Killing
Brief Synopsis
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Star and co-producer Peter Strauss is an outsider, stranded with his family in a Newfoundland coastal resort, where he flies in the face of custom and fights an entire community to prevent a trapped whale's slaughter with the support only of his wife and one of the locals, Richard Widmark. Emmy Awar
Cast & Crew
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Richard Heffron
Director
Colin Fox
Reuven Bar-yotam
Bill Calvert
Tommy Sexton
Janet Whelan
Film Details
Also Known As
Whale For the Killing
Genre
Drama
Release Date
1981
Technical Specs
Duration
3h
Synopsis
Star and co-producer Peter Strauss is an outsider, stranded with his family in a Newfoundland coastal resort, where he flies in the face of custom and fights an entire community to prevent a trapped whale's slaughter with the support only of his wife and one of the locals, Richard Widmark. Emmy Award nominations went to the film's editors and its sound mixers.
Director
Richard Heffron
Director
Cast
Colin Fox
Reuven Bar-yotam
Bill Calvert
Tommy Sexton
Janet Whelan
Kathryn Walker
Ken James
Arthur Rosenberg
Bruce Mcgill
Peter Strauss
Richard Widmark
Vicki Whitten
George Morner
David Hollander
David Ferry
Jack Jazefson
Kent Barrett
E P Henley
Dee Wallace Stone
Larry Reynolds
Crew
Thomas Causey
Sound
Lionel Chetwynd
Screenplay
Vincent Cresciman
Art Director
Michael Eliot
Editor
Robert Florio
Editor
John Kline
Sound Editor
Edmund Koons
Director Of Photography
David V Lester
Production Manager
Eugene Lourie
Production Designer
Robert Lovenheim
Producer
Don Miller
Associate Producer
Michael C Moore
Sound
Farley Mowat
Book As Source Material
Basil Poledouris
Music
Edward L. Rissien
Executive Producer
Peter Strauss
Producer
Russ Tinsley
Sound Editor
Film Details
Also Known As
Whale For the Killing
Genre
Drama
Release Date
1981
Technical Specs
Duration
3h
Quotes
Trivia
Miscellaneous Notes
Aired in United States February 1, 1981
