The 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.
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Author | Guy Vanderhaeghe |
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Language | English |
Subject | Language, arts |
Genre | historical fiction |
Publisher | McClelland & Stewart |
Publication date | 14 September 1996 |
Publication place | Canada |
Media type | Hardcover and Paperback |
Pages | 333 |
ISBN | 0-7710-8693-8 |
OCLC | 35941592 |
Television film
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Written by | Guy Vanderhaeghe |
Screenplay by | Guy Vanderhaeghe |
Directed by | John N. Smith |
Starring | Bob Hoskins Nicholas Campbell Michael Therriault R. H. Thomson Michael Eisner Katharine Isabelle |
Theme music composer | Rob Bryanton Todd Bryanton |
Country of origin | Canada |
Original language | English |
No. of episodes | 2 |
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Executive producer | Kevin DeWalt |
Running time | 180 minutes |
Budget | $11.7 million |
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Network | CBC |
Release | 2 March 9 March 2008 | –
On 2 March 2008, The Englishman's Boy premiered as a made-for-television film on CBC with a budget of $11.7 million.[1] The film won six Gemini Awards: Best Dramatic Mini-Series; John N. Smith as director; Nicholas Campbell as leading actor; Katharine Isabelle as supporting actress; Carmen Kotyk, for casting; and Beverley Wowchuk for costumes.[2][3]
In November 2017 the TV film was released on the Canada Media Fund Encore+ YouTube channel.
Notes
edit- ^ Richard Wood. "Mini-series recreates massacre", The Beaver, February/March 2007, Vol. 87, issue 1, p. 11
- ^ http://www.geminiawards.ca/gemini23/press/GM23Nov28winners.pdf Archived 27 February 2012 at the Wayback Machine [bare URL PDF]
- ^ http://www.geminiawards.ca/gemini23/press/GM23Oct22winners.pdf [bare URL PDF]
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