This made-for-TV bio-pic is about Marilyn Bell, a Canadian teenager who, in 1954, was the first person to swim across Lake Ontario. She won the Toronto Canadian National Exhibition prize after Florence Chadwick, a then-famous American swimmer who was widely expected to win, dropped out in the middle of the race. Half of this heart-warming movie is devoted to the 21 hour swim in which the 16-year old Bell is exhorted by her pushy coach Gus Ryder not to give up.
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Caroline Dhavernas | Marilyn Bell |
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Amy Sloan | Joan |
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Graeme Somerville | George Bryant |
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Vlasta Vrana | George McBlair |
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Kent McQuaid | Myron Peters |
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Lisa Bronwyn Moore | Patsy MacKinnon |
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Chip Chuipka | Syd Bell |
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Jennifer Morehouse | Grace Bell |
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Ron White | Gus Ryder |
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Claudia Besso | Florence Chadwick |
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Natasha Tofflemire | Karen Bell |
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David Schaap | Race Official |
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Susan Glover | Phyllis Ryder |
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Evan King | Cliff Lumsdon |
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Jean Brassard | Freeman |
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Derek Kalinowski | Bart |
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Alan Fawcett | Gordon Spears |
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Sean Devine | Hindmarsh |
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Richard Zeman | Jack Russell |
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Michael Rudder | Dr. Bernie Willinsky |
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John Ross | Mark Harrison |
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Matthew Tiffin | Gerry Wilson |
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Pierre LeBlanc | Ted Dinsmore |
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Andrew W. Walker | Jerry Kerschner |
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Griffith Brewer | Old Geezer |
| Director | Manon Briand |
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| Writer | Karen Walton | |
| Producer | Pedro Gandol, Irene Litinsky | |
| Musician | David Buchbinder | |
| Nr Discs | 1 |
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| Screen Ratios | Fullscreen (4:3) |
| Audio Tracks | Stereo |
| Distributor | Direct Source |
| Edition Release Date | Mar 07, 2006 |
| Regions | 1 |
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