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A Whale for the Killing

A Whale for the Killing1981

★7.0145 minAdventureDramaFamily

A conservationst, stranded with his family at a Newfoundland coastal resort, flies in the face of custom and fights an entire community to prevent a trapped whale's slaughter with only the support of his wife and one of the locals.

Director

Richard T. Heffron

Writer

Lionel Chetwynd Farley Mowat

Score

Basil Poledouris

Stars

Peter Strauss Dee Wallace Kathryn Walker

Cast21

Peter Strauss
as Charles Landon
Dee Wallace
as Janet Landon
Kathryn Walker
as Dr. Linda McFarland
Bruce McGill
as Glenn
Ken James
as Lorne
David Ferry
as Johnny Goodenough
Richard Widmark
as Tom Goodenough
D
David Hollander
as Stevie Landon
Bill Calvert
as Tony Landon
L
Larry Reynolds
G
George Merner
Reuven Bar-Yotam
K
Kent Barrett
Arthur Rosenberg
Tommy Sexton
Colin Fox
V
Vicki Whitten
as Jeannie
J
Jack Jozefson
A
Austin Davis
J
Jon Baggaley
as Reporter
Frances Bay

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