The Snow Goose (1971)

1h
Running Time

November 15, 1971
Release Date

The Snow Goose (1971)

1h
Running Time

November 15, 1971
Release Date

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Plot.

Based upon Paul Gallico's delicate novel, Patrick Garland's Golden Globe winning The Snow Goose is a stark and hauntingly beautiful drama set amongst the striking scenery of the Essex salt marshes during the early years of WWII. A bearded Richard Harris leads the modest cast with his sensitive portrayal of tormented soul Philip Rhayader, a lonely misshapen man shunned by society but with a great love of life; Harris isnt overly bitter of his treatment and expresses his compassion through his paintings and love of the waterfowl that surround him. Harris is ably supported by the waiflike Jenny Agutter as Frith, who radiates the requisite amount of youthful innocence and naivety, and won a best supporting actress Emmy Award for her performance.

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Release Date
November 15, 1971

Status
Released

Running Time
1h

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The Snow Goose is a 1971 British television drama film based on the 1941 novella The Snow Goose: A Story of Dunkirk by Paul Gallico. The film is primarily set in Essex, immediately prior to World War II and during the Dunkirk evacuation (1940). A reclusive lighthouse keeper (and amateur painter) takes care of an orphan girl and her wounded snow goose, until joining the rescue efforts for the British Expeditionary Force. When the lighthouse keeper is killed in the effort, the girl only manages to rescue one of his paintings. The others are destroyed by a German bombing.

It won a Golden Globe Award for Best Television Film and was nominated for a British Academy Television Award for Best Drama Production. It was also nominated for a nine Primetime Emmy Awards, winning one for Jenny Agutter for Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Drama. The film was shown in the United States on 15 November 1971 as part of the anthology series Hallmark Hall of Fame.

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