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The Valour and the Horror - A Savage Christmas: The Fall of Hong Kong
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Title: A Savage Christmas: The Fall of Hong Kong

Release Date: 12 Jan 1992

Runtime: 1h 40m

Genre: Documentary, War

Director: CBC, ONF | NFB

Production Companies: CBC, ONF | NFB

Overview: The documentary, using the dramatization of fact, makes the case that the Canadian government knowingly sent two unprepared infantry battalions to help defend Hong Kong in late 1941, fully aware that they may have been on a doomed mission. The C Force, consisting of about 2000 soldiers from the Winnipeg Grenadiers and the Royal Rifles of Canada (from Quebec City) were, with the other British, Indian and Hong Kong troops, attacked on December 8, 1941 and overwhelmed by Japanese troops, leading to numerous casualties and the surrender on Christmas day. The Canadians would spend more than 3 and half years as prisoners of war, in horrible conditions. Part of "The Valour and the Horror" mini series.

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Cast

  • Narrator: Terence McKenna
  • John Payne: Andrew Tarbet
  • Walter Jenkins: David Hewlett
  • John Stroud: Greg Spottiswood
  • Kay Christie: Brooke Johnson
  • Les Canivet: Martin Julien
  • Ike Friesen: Andrew Miller
  • Fred Reich: Jeremy Ratchford
  • Self (Royal Rifles of Canada) (as Bob Clayton): Robert Clayton
  • Self (Winnipeg Grenadiers) (as Bob Manchester): Robert Manchester
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