The Other Side of the Law (TV)

Aventures dans le Grand Nord – French title

L’honneur des grandes neiges – French title

The Other Side of the Law – English title

A 1994, French, Canadian television co-production [Ellipse, France 3, Gaumont Television

         (Paris), Telefilm Canada (Montreal)]

Producers: Justine Héroux, Robert Réa

Director: Gilles Carles

Story: James Oliver Curwood

Teleplay: Gilles Carles

Photography: Jean-Claude Aumont [color]

Music: Jean Delorme

Running time: 95 minutes

Cast:

Simon McQuarrie – Jurgen Prochnow

Donald McRae – Yves Renier

Mayor – Xavier Deluc (Xavier Lepetit)

Alec Curry – Justin Bornraegger

Peter McRae – Marc de Jonge

Mona Guyon – Maggie Castle

Josette Groundon – Brigitte Boucher

Odette Clanart – Chrystelle Labaude

Bridget Curry – Shannon Finnegan

Pierre McRae as a boy – Johnny Morina Cédric

Pierre McRae as a young man – Attila Dumond (Cédric Dumont)

Cédric Attila Dumond (Cédric Dumont)

Alec Curry as a boy – Gerard Smurthwaite

Mona as a girl – Pascale Nielsen (Inger Nielsen)

Helene McRae – Leslie Rain

Paul – Christian De Grave

In this tale of drama and adventure based on a novel by James Oliver Curwood, a man becomes obsessed with revenge after his wife is sexually assaulted by another man. He kills the rapist, but soon finds he's wanted by the law, and spends the next ten years hiding out in the wilderness with his young son. Shortly before his wife died, the man promised her that their son would receive an education, and in time the man turns his son over to a close friend, who will now raise the boy and send him to school. However, the boy soon learns that one of his classmates is the son of the man his father killed, and the young man pledges to someday take his life in exchange for that of his late father.

This made for Canadian TV western was part of the Tales of the Wild series and was shown on Canadian television on December 24, 1994.

Trailer link: http://www.videodetective.com/movies/the-other-side-of-the-law/556600