The Hoax
1955
30 min
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A small-town museum finds itself the centre of suspenseful melodrama when an enterprising reporter plunges it into local headlines over the authenticity of one of its prize exhibits, a human skull. An act of diplomacy saves the fate of the museum's fund-raising campaign and the brash young reporter learns a lesson.
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Perspective1955 46 filmsThis TV series from the mid-1950s blended documentary and fiction to tell Canadian stories from a Canadian perspective.
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A small-town museum finds itself the centre of suspenseful melodrama when an enterprising reporter plunges it into local headlines over the authenticity of one of its prize exhibits, a human skull. An act of diplomacy saves the fate of the museum's fund-raising campaign and the brash young reporter learns a lesson.
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directorWilliam Davidson
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producerNicholas Balla
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scriptNorman Klenman
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photographyRobert Humble
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soundClifford Griffin
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editingDouglas Robertson
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musicRobert Fleming
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castRichard LambJoy LindopClyde BellPeter HopkinsonT.A. RogersVic Lemieux
