Bingo (1974 film)

Bingo
Directed byJean-Claude Lord
Written byJean-Claude Lord
Roch Poisson
Lise Thouin
Michel Capistran
Jean Salvy
Produced byPierre David
Louise Ranger
StarringRéjean Guénette
Anne-Marie Provencher
Claude Michaud
Alexandra Stewart
Gilles Pelletier
CinematographyClaude La Rue
François Protat
Edited byJean-Claude Lord
Music byMichel Comte
Production
company
Les Films Mutuels
Distributed byAmbassador Film Distributors (Canada)
Michèle Dimitri Films (France)
Les Films Mutuels (all media)
Release date
  • March 14, 1974 (1974-03-14)
Running time
113 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageFrench
Budget$400,000[1]
Box office$1.5 million (Canada)[2]

Bingo is a 1974 French-Canadian thriller directed by Jean-Claude Lord. The plot relates to Quebec's October Crisis of 1970.[3][4]

  1. ^ "Quebec Films in 1976 Veered To English". Variety. November 24, 1976. p. 33.
  2. ^ "Canadian Films Grosses". Variety. November 24, 1976. p. 32.
  3. ^ The Cinema of Canada Jerry White - 2006 - Page 33 "... as well as the 1990s and early 2000s, witnessed a number of highly lucrative domestic productions, such as Denis Heroux's Valerie (1968), Claude Fournier's Deuxfemmes en or (1970), Jean-Claude Lord's Bingo (1974) and, more recently, ..."
  4. ^ Eugene P. Walz Canada's Best Features: Critical Essays on 15 Canadian Films 2002 "... decided to do neither an actual documentary on the events, like Robin Spry's Action: The October Crisis of 1970 (1973), nor a wholly fictionalized rendition of the incidents, like Jean-Claude Lord's contemporary political thriller Bingo (1974), ..."