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The Kid Who Couldn't Miss

Name: The Kid Who Couldn't Miss
Released: April 22, 2008, 1:52 p.m.
Duration: 1 h 19 min

Paul Cowan

1982 | 1 h 19 min

Home licence (worldwide); Classroom licence (Canada only)
HD - $ 9.95 SD - $ 4.95

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Synopsis
Education

Paul Cowan's feature-length film combines fiction and reality to tell the story of how William Avery (Billy) Bishop became one of the leading fighter pilots of World War I. By no accounts a biography of Billy Bishop, the film uses a 'docu-drama' approach to show how one person goes from being a brash kid from Ontario to Canada's most decorated military figure.

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Credits

director

Paul Cowan
producer

Paul Cowan
camera

Paul Cowan
executive producer

Adam Symansky
sound

Richard Nichol

James McCarthy
editing

Paul Cowan

Sidonie Kerr
sound editing

Jackie Newell
re-recording

Jean-Pierre Joutel

Adrian Croll
animation

Meilan Lam
narrator

William Hutt
music

Ben Low
cast

Eric Peterson

John Gray

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The NFB's treatment of Canadian military history has been an international embarrassment, particularly due to the necessary intervention of other levels of government who have stepped in and had to reel in film-makers with an unabashed zeal for fabricating adverse stories about Canadian service personnel.
MichaelDorosh, 1 Feb 2013
Amateurish character assassination.
MAJones, 30 Dec 2011
Great film work at its finest.
icedriller123, 22 Aug 2010