A Whale for the Killing
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“Nature betrayed it. Whalers wanted it. And a whole town is ready to kill it.”
A conservationst, stranded with his family at a Newfoundland coastal resort, flies in the face of custom and fights an entire community to prevent a trapped whale's slaughter with only the support of his wife and one of the locals.
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Peter Strauss
Charles Landon
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Janet Landon
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Kathryn Walker
Dr. Linda McFarland
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Glenn
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Lorne
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David Ferry
Johnny Goodenough
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Richard Widmark
Tom Goodenough
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David Hollander
Stevie Landon
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Bill Calvert
Tony Landon
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Larry Reynolds
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George Merner
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Richard T. Heffron Director · Lionel Chetwynd Writer Farley Mowat Author
United States release February 1, 1981 · Produced in United States · Production Beowulf Productions
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Playboy Enterprises
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Beowulf Productions
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United States
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English
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English
Release dates
United States · February 1, 1981
TV · ABC
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