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Cavendish Country

1973 27 min
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Cal Cavendish of Calgary is one of Canada's finest writers of country-western music. He sings his own songs and could make it as an entertainer but refuses to sing in bars where, he feels, no one really listens. So he pays for his integrity by working nights as a part-time security guard. But disc jockeys play his records, his popularity grows, and one day he will be on the big fifteen-metre stage where people do pay attention.

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Cavendish Country
  • West
    West
    1973 12 films
    This is the Canadian West that the traveller seldom sees, each film an intimate look at some facet of life of the three Prairie provinces. From the west, the east, the NFB and independent filmmakers, the films in this series show Canadians in many walks of life--the whole colorful mosaic that spreads from the plains of Manitoba and Saskatchewan to the towering peaks of Alberta's mountains.

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Cal Cavendish of Calgary is one of Canada's finest writers of country-western music. He sings his own songs and could make it as an entertainer but refuses to sing in bars where, he feels, no one really listens. So he pays for his integrity by working nights as a part-time security guard. But disc jockeys play his records, his popularity grows, and one day he will be on the big fifteen-metre stage where people do pay attention.
  • director
    Donald Brittain
  • producer
    Donald Brittain
  • writer
    Donald Brittain
  • photography
    Douglas Kiefer
    Richard Leiterman
  • sound
    Hans Oomes
    James McCarthy
  • editing
    Robert Fortier
  • sound editing
    John Knight
  • re-recording
    Jean-Pierre Joutel

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