Sunday in the Country

Sunday in the Country
Directed byJohn Trent
Written byRobert Maxwell
John Trent
Story byDavid Main
Produced byDavid Perlmutter
StarringErnest Borgnine
Michael J. Pollard
Hollis McLaren
Louis Zorich
Cec Linder
CinematographyMarc Champion
Edited byTony Lower
Music byPaul Hoffert
William McCauley
Production
companies
Quadrant Films
Impact Films
Canadian Film Development Corporation
Distributed byAmerican International Pictures
Cinerama Releasing Corporation
EMI Films
Release date
  • November 22, 1974 (1974-11-22) (United States)
Running time
93 minutes
CountriesCanada
United Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

Sunday in the Country is a 1974 Canadian-British crime thriller film, directed by John Trent.[1] The film stars Ernest Borgnine as Adam Smith, a country farmer who decides to enact vigilante justice when he discovers fugitive criminal Leroy (Michael J. Pollard) and his accomplices Dinelli (Louis Zorich) and Ackerman (Cec Linder) hiding out in his barn.[2]

The cast also includes Hollis McLaren as Adam's granddaughter Lucy, as well as Vladimír Valenta, Al Waxman, Tim Henry, Murray Westgate, Ralph Endersby, Susan Petrie, Ratch Wallace, Mark Walker, Gary Reineke, Eric Clavering, David Hughes, Franz Russell, Ruth Springford, Alan King, Laddie Dennis, Joan Hurley, Winnifred Springett, Jonathan White, James Barron and Carl Banas in supporting roles.[3]

In his 2003 book A Century of Canadian Cinema, Gerald Pratley identified the film as one of the key progenitors of the trend in 1970s Canadian cinema to cast higher-profile American stars in lead roles to improve the film's international marketability.[1]

  1. ^ a b Gerald Pratley, A Century of Canadian Cinema. Lynx Images, 2003. ISBN 1-894073-21-5. p. 211.
  2. ^ Jim Clements, "Two hours of entertainment". Hamilton Spectator, March 29, 1975.
  3. ^ Harris Kirshenbaum, "A Sunday in the Country". Cinema Canada, 1974.