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Paperback Hero is a canadien film of genre Drama directed by Peter Pearson released in USA on 1 september 1974 with Keir Dullea

Paperback Hero (1973)

Paperback Hero
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Released in USA 1 september 1974
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OriginCanada
Genres Drama,    Action
Rating60% 3.0003153.0003153.0003153.0003153.000315

Paperback Hero is a 1973 Canadian movie, directed by Peter Pearson, which starred Keir Dullea and Elizabeth Ashley. It is set in Saskatchewan and portrays the life of a big-fish minor-league hockey player in a little-pond town. The movie was filmed in Delisle, Saskatchewan.

It was originally titled Last of the Big Guns, but was renamed to reflect the lyrics of Gordon Lightfoot's "If You Could Read My Mind", which was featured on the soundtrack.

It won the Canadian Film Awards in 1973 for Film Editing, Overall Sound, and Cinematography.

It was selected in 2006 for the Toronto International Film Festival's Canadian Open Vault program, which preserves examples of notable Canadian cinema.

Actors

Keir Dullea

(Rick Dylan)Elizabeth Ashley

(Loretta)John Beck

(Pov)Dayle Haddon

(Joanna)George R. Robertson

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