Genres
Duration
100 min
Director
Brian McKenna
Rating
10.0
Release Date
January 12, 1992
A Savage Christmas: The Fall of Hong Kong
Original title: A Savage Christmas: The Fall of Hong Kong
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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.
A Savage Christmas: The Fall of Hong Kong cast
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Terence McKenna
Character:
Narrator
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Andrew Tarbet
Character:
John Payne
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David Hewlett
Character:
Walter Jenkins
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Greg Spottiswood
Character:
John Stroud
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Brooke Johnson
Character:
Kay Christie
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Martin Julien
Character:
Les Canivet
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Andrew Miller
Character:
Ike Friesen
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Jeremy Ratchford
Character:
Fred Reich
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Robert Clayton
Character:
Self (Royal Rifles of Canada) (as Bob Clayton)
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Robert Manchester
Character:
Self (Winnipeg Grenadiers) (as Bob Manchester)
