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Action: The October Crisis of 1970

Directed by Robin Spry
1974    87m
7.6
The Front de liberation du Quebec was a Canadian terrorist organization which staged a series of attacks in the late 1960's which culminated in the kidnappings of Pierre Laporte, Quebec's minister of culture, and James Cross, the British Consul in Montreal, in October of 1970. This film traces those events and the political and social reactions and circumstances surrounding them.
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Cast of Action: The October Crisis of 1970
  • Thor BishopricWilliam
  • Pierre BourgaultSelf (Leader of RIN)
  • Réal CaouetteSelf (Créditiste MP)
  • Claude CharronSelf (Péquiste MNA, with Lévesque)
  • Michel ChartrandSelf (organizer of miners' strike)
  • Jérome ChoquetteSelf
  • James CrossSelf (with Choquette after his release)
  • Charles de GaulleSelf (Vive le Québec libre speech in Montreal)
  • Davidson DuntonSelf (Co-chairman, Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism)
  • Charles GagnonSelf (FLQ with Lemieux)
  • Eric KieransSelf
  • Claude LachanceSelf (journalist, describes discovery of Laporte)
  • André LaurendeauSelf (Co-chairman, Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism)
  • Robert LemieuxSelf (FLQ spokesman))
  • René LévesqueSelf (Leader of PQ)
  • Robert MacNeilSelf (hopes to interview Trudeau on Parliament Hill)
  • Normand MaltaisSelf
  • Gaétan MontreuilSelf
  • Queen Elizabeth II of the United KingdomSelf (visits Canada, 1964)
  • Claude RyanSelf (editor, Le Devoir)
  • Camil SamsonSelf (MNA)
  • Robert ShawSelf - Administrator, McGill University
  • Pierre Elliott TrudeauSelf
  • Pierre VallièresSelf (FLQ, demonstrates outside UN with Gagnon)
  • Ronald FranceNarrator (French version)
  • Jacques RoseSelf
  • Paul RoseSelf
  • Robin SpryNarrator

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