Screenplay: Donald Brittain
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Donald Brittain. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
Buster Keaton Rides Again
1965 · Documentary · 55 min. · Canada
Direction John Spotton
Cast Michael Kane · Buster Keaton · Eleanor Keaton · Gerald Potterton
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Volcano: An Inquiry Into the Life and Death of Malcolm Lowry
1976 · Documentary · 100 min. · Canada
Direction Donald Brittain · John Kramer
Cast Marjorie Bonner · Donald Brittain · John Buchan · Richard Burton
Plot A documentary on the life of the alcoholic writer Malcolm Lowry, interspersed with readings of Lowry's work by Richard Burton. Lowry was born and educated in England. He moved to...
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Paperland: The Bureaucrat Observed
1979 · Documentary · 58 min. · Canada
Direction Donald Brittain
Cast Donald Brittain
Plot The idiosyncrasies and absurdities of bureaucracy.
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Canada's Sweetheart: The Saga of Hal C. Banks
1985 · Movie · 115 min. · Canada
Direction Donald Brittain
Cast Peter Boretski · Donald Brittain · Maury Chaykin · Jason Dean
Plot This biographical drama profiles the true life of Hal C. Banks, the tough American who once ruled the Canadian shipping industry.
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Stravinsky
1965 · Documentary · 49 min. · Canada
Direction Wolf Koenig · Roman Kroitor
Cast Igor Stravinsky · Vera Stravinsky · Julian Bream · Robert Craft
Plot Documentary about the russian composer Igor Stravinsky.
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Helicopter Canada
1966 · Documentary · 50 min. · Canada
Direction Eugene Boyko
Plot A view from a helicopter of the ten Canadian provinces in 1966. The result is a big, beautiful and engrossing bird's-eye portrait of the country.
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Grierson
1973 · Documentary · 58 min. · Canada
Direction Roger Blais
Cast Michael Kane · Monique Miller · John Amess · Edgar Anstey
Plot The story of John Grierson, the British documentary movement, and Canada's National Film Board.
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What on Earth! (S)
1967 · Movie · 10 min. · Canada
Direction Les Drew · Kaj Pindal
Plot The Martians speculate on the nature of Earth's apparent dominant lifeform, automobiles.
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