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Prairie Giant: The Tommy Douglas Story (2006)
Good for what it was
13 March 2006 - 4 out of 12 users found this review helpful.
This film was OK, but took too many liberties for my liking. Parliamentary debates are not as they were portrayed in the first segment and one quotation attributed to Douglas was actually said by Ontario Premier Mitch Hepburn about a decade earlier.
I was disappointed that the second part glossed over Tommy's years as leader of the New Democratic Party. We see him defeated in 1962 and then suddenly it's 1983.
That being said, I was glad to see the emphasis on Irma Douglas's role behind the scenes. The NDP was in many ways a family affair, with wives just a vital an influence as their more famous husbands.
And anything would beat another show with Ben Mulroney or another episode of Falcon Beach!
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