A Whale for the Killing
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Genre | Drama |
Based on | A Whale for the Killing by Farley Mowat |
Written by | Lionel Chetwynd |
Directed by | Richard T. Heffron |
Starring | Peter Strauss Dee Wallace Kathryn Walker Richard Widmark Bruce McGill |
Theme music composer | Basil Poledouris |
Country of origin | United States |
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Executive producers | Hugh M. Hefner Edward L. Rissien |
Producers | Robert Lovenheim Peter Strauss |
Production locations | Petty Harbour, Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada Bay Area, San Francisco, California |
Cinematography | Edmond L. Koons |
Editors | Michael Eliot Robert Florio |
Running time | 145 min. |
Production companies | Beowulf Productions Playboy Productions |
Original release | |
Network | ABC |
Release | February 1, 1981 (1981-02-01) |
A Whale for the Killing is an American television film that aired on ABC on February 1, 1981. It is loosely based on a true story by environmentalist Farley Mowat, about a whale that is tortured by a fisherman. The incident happened near Burgeo, Newfoundland, while Mowat & family lived there.[1]
The film, based on Mowat's 1972 book of the same name, received two Primetime Emmy nominations.
The later Canadian singer Alan Doyle starred as a boy on a bridge in the movie. In 2012 he released his solo album Boy on Bridge which paid tribute to the role.[2]
Soundtrack
The soundtrack is available on CD from BSX Records.[3] The score was composed by Basil Poledouris. Also included on the same CD is the soundtrack to the 1992 theatrical film Wind, also composed by Poledouris.
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