Bound for Glory (1975)
1h 42m
Running Time
October 15, 1975Release Date
Bound for Glory (1975)
1h 42m
Running Time
October 15, 1975Release Date
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Plot.
In 1942 even after a formal promise from the Liberal Party of Canada in the last election: "Never the Conscription", the Canadian Government vote a Conscription Law. In Quebec where the French population was mostly unanimous against the obligation to go to war, seen as a Great-Britain Government request, many young men fled to the woods or in clandestineness.
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Release DateOctober 15, 1975
Original NamePartis pour la gloire
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 42m
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Bound for Glory (French: Partis pour la gloire) is a Canadian drama film, directed by Clément Perron and released in 1975.Set against the backdrop of the 1942 Canadian conscription plebiscite, the film is set in a small town in the Beauce region of Quebec where resistance to the war is high and many men have fled into the woods to escape being conscripted. The film's cast includes Serge L'Italien, Rachel Cailhier, Jacques Thisdale, André Melançon, Yolande Roy, Jean-Marie Lemieux, Louise Ladouceur and Jean-Pierre Masson.
Melançon won the Canadian Film Award for Best Actor at the 27th Canadian Film Awards.