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Canada's sweetheart the saga of Hal C. Banks

Based on eye-witness accounts and courtroom testimony, this docu-drama recalls the turbulent years in the Canadian shipping industry from 1949 to 1962 when Hal C. Banks, a convicted felon and union strongarm, was recruited from the United States to break up the communist-controlled unions and to replace them with a Canadian chapter of the Seafarers' International Union. His control ended in 1962 when a small group of seaman challenged his authority and the government appointed the Norris Commission to investigate Bank's activities.

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  • "Harold Chamberlain Banks, a convicted felon and union strongarm, was recruited in 1949 to break up the communist-controlled unions that were blocking the country's shipping industry and to replace them with a Canadian chapter of the Seafarers' International Union (SIU). This gripping docudrama, based on eyewitness accounts and courtroom testimony, recalls thirteen turbulent years of violence and corruption during which the careers of 6 000 seamen were destroyed by the power of one man, Banks. Canada's Sweetheart recounts the events leading up to 1962, when a small group summoned the courage to stand up to Banks and his organization. This challenge resulted in the government-appointed Norris Commission hearings--a landmark in Canadian labor history."
  • "Based on eye-witness accounts and courtroom testimony, this docu-drama recalls the turbulent years in the Canadian shipping industry from 1949 to 1962 when Hal C. Banks, a convicted felon and union strongarm, was recruited from the United States to break up the communist-controlled unions and to replace them with a Canadian chapter of the Seafarers' International Union. His control ended in 1962 when a small group of seaman challenged his authority and the government appointed the Norris Commission to investigate Bank's activities."@en
  • "A docudrama about the American mobster who broke the Canadian Seaman's Union in 1949. The dramatization is interspersed with interviews of people involved in the actual events."
  • "Interweaving current interviews with dramatic reenactment this film traces the Canadian career of an American gangster, Hal C. Banks, who was actually hired by the Canadian government to crush the Canadian Seaman's Union and replace it with an American-based union. In the McCarthyist political climate of the early fifties the CSU was suspected of Communist leanings. The style of the dramatic footage evokes film noir providing a metaphoric subtext (one Canadian critic has seen it as à metaphor for American cinema's hold over Canada') which takes the film beyond the mere recounting of a shabby piece of Canadian labour history."@en
  • "Docu-drama based on eye-witness accounts and courtroom testimony."

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  • "Feature films"@en
  • "Drama"
  • "History"@en
  • "Biography"
  • "Biography"@en

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  • "Canada's sweetheart the saga of Hal C. Banks"@en
  • "Canada's sweetheart the saga of Hal C. Banks"
  • "Canada's sweetheart : the saga of Hal C. Banks"
  • "Documentary specials (Programa televisiu)"

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