During the height of the Vietnam war, a hippie and a draft dodger get together and hatch a plan to flee to Canada. They steal a car and head towards Vancouver, but the trip doesn't go as smoothly as they planned, and before long they're being chased by the police, accused of murdering several police officers.
Acting
Don Stroud's genuinely committed antihero energy.
Production
Low-budget Canadian landscapes as accidental character.
Direction
Jules Bricken's frantic cross-cutting between sincerity and exploitation.
Director
Jules Bricken
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
'Canuxploitation' was coined decades later, but this is peak proto-example—American genre formulas shot on Canadian tax shelter dime with local actors pretending to be American refugees.
Gordon Thomson later became a soap opera staple on 'Dynasty,' making his radical hippie phase deliciously dissonant in retrospect. The psychiatrist's mind-control subplot? Ripped from contemporaneous MKULTRA paranoia circulating in underground press.
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