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Test Pilot

Fergus McDonell

1957 30 min

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A suspenseful story by Arthur Hailey about the excitement and hazards of being an aircraft test pilot.

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  1955 46 films

  This TV series from the mid-1950s blended documentary and fiction to tell Canadian stories from a Canadian perspective.

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A suspenseful story by Arthur Hailey about the excitement and hazards of being an aircraft test pilot.

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Transportation

National Security and Defence

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Credits

• director
  Fergus McDonell
  
• producer
  Julian Biggs
  
• script
  Arthur Hailey
  
• photography
  Eugene Boyko
  
• sound
  John Locke
  
• editing
  Dennis Sawyer
  
• sound editing
  Bernard Bordeleau
  
• cast
  Michael Conway
  
  James Doohan
  
  Mike Fitzgerald
  
  Anthony Hulme
  
  Neil Leroy
  
  Patricia Moffatt
  
  Gene Sandys
  
  John Valentine
  

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