Cinema Canada (Oct-Nov 1980)

is blind. He talks about seeing, and people ask him to come and look at things, which he considers to be as great a compliment as he can be paid — although it is he who makes it possible. Remarkable too, is the discovery that R.H. Thompson has a natural flair for comedy. Says Gillard, “Slys a key character, very funny. Everyone knows what a fine, serious actor R.H. is, but very few serious actors can be funny. Eric had worked with him on American Christmas Carol, and just felt that he could do it.” Funded through Newhouse, the Winnipeg investment corporation, the film is co-exec-produced by Gene Corman (F.I.S.T. and 50 other major movies over the last twenty years) and Dale Falconer, one of the moves behind TOFCO, independent distribution consortium in the U.S.A. After two weeks exterior’ shooting in Nova Scotia, the film continues for another five in Toronto. Martin Harbury The Fright p.c. Filmplan International Inc. (1980) exec. p. Pierre David, Victor Solnicki assist. to exec. p. Denise Ponton, Elaine Roy p. Claude Héroux sec. to B: Monique Legon script co-ord. Denise DiNovi recept. Mei Chan, Christine Moore comptroller Serge Major, Gilles Léonard (asst.) legal counsel Sander Gibson d. Jean-Claude Lord script Brian Taggert p. man. Gwen Iveson, Janet Cuddy (ae p. sec. Denyse Forget unit man. Michel Wachniuc a.d. Julian Marks (1st), Blair Roth (2nd), David Bailey (3rd) cont. France Boudreau p.a. Jerry Potashnick (1st), Louis Gascon (2nd), Peter Serapiglia (3rd) craftservice Michael Egyes p. account. Yvette Duguet books Joanne Gosselin, Diane Williamson, Linda Duguet art. d. Michel Proulx, Dominique L’Abbé (asst.), Sylvie Dagenais nina art dept. admin. aurice Tremblay draftsperson Kenée Tardif set dress. Francois Seguin, Jean Gauthier (asst.), Simon Lahaye (temp. asst.) construc. man. Claude Simard head props JeanBaptiste Tard prop. buyer Frances Calder iiaig Daniel Huysmans bird handler arc Conway dog handler Gilles Chartier cost. design. Delphine White, Ginette Magny-Aird (asst.) head dresser Suzanne Canuel, Mario D’Avignon (asst.) seamstress/ cutter Momelle LeBlanc (temp.) daily help Sylvie Bellemare make-up Inge Klaudi, Kathryn Casault (asst.) efx. make-up Stephan Dupuis, Michele Burke (asst.) hair Constant Natale hair (Miss Grant’s) Pierre David d.o.p./cam. op. René Verzier Ist beside bk nsg Denis Gingras 2nd asst./clapper/loader Jean-Jacques Gervais cam. dept. trainee Barbara Samuels stills Pierre Dury Steadicam Louis De Ernsted loc. mixer Don Cohen boom op. Gabor Vadnay gaf. Don Caulfield best boy Richer Francoeur elec. Marc Charlebois key grip Jacob Rolling asst. key grip/dolly Norman Guy ad ichel St-Pierre transport man. Charles oupin talent driver (grant) Richard Marsan t.d. (Shatner) Réal Baril t.d. (Purl) JeanClaude Cloutier drivers Glen Light, Michel Martin, Michel Sarao, Maurice Dubois, Vincente Di Clemente, Bernard Kirschner stunt co-ord. Jim Arnett spec. efx. Gary Zeller (superv.), Don Berry (co-ord.), Renée Rousseau (assist.), Yves Dubrieul (tech.), Frangois Beauregard (tech.) casting (T.O.) WalkerBowan, (Mtl.) Ginette D'Amico, Flo Gallant eerie Rosina Bucci (assist.) l.p. Lee Grant, nda Purl, William Shatner, Michael Ironside, Lenore Zann, Helen Hugues, Sylvia Lennick, Mary Rathbone, Harvey Atkin, Lenn Watt, Kirsten Bishopric, Tali Fisher, Elizabeth Mylle, Dabra Kirschenbaum, JérOme Tibergien, Dustin Waln, Maureen MacRae, Danny Silverman, Dorothy Barker, France March, Daniéle Schneider, Victor Knight, Angela Gallagher, Dora Dainton, Sheena Lardin. «The Fright», Quebec filmmaker Jean-Claude Lord’s sixth feature is being shot entirely in Montreal. The interior and exterior sequences require a 40 day shooting schedule, and, into their fourth week, crew and cast are confident the film will be finished on schedule. American screenwriter, Brian Taggert, is available on the set for any consultation necessary. Two other Americans are also members of the cast: Lee Grant, in the starring role of Deborah Ballin, television broadcaster (with Montreal-born William Shatner as her friend and studio news director, Gary Ball); and Linda Purl, a relative newcomer on the Hollywood scene, who plays Sheila Monroe, a caring nurse who refuses to let herself become calloused. The conflict in the movie revolves around the character of Colt Hawker, a deranged man who has a fixation about the Ballin TV personality and wants to kill her. Portrayed by Michael Ironside, Colt focuses his attention on the woman who is a mother figure to him — an embarrassment which simultaneously pains and terrifies him. Ironside says the film reminds him of a quote by Paul Schroeder, which contrasts the classical methods of suicide in Eastern and Western society. In the former, they isolate themselves, discreetly pulling down the blinds and quietly doing away with themselves; in the latter, it's a matter of going out publicly, with a loud bang. “The most Awaiting The Fright? Here Lee Grant with William Shatner. Cinema Canada/5