Alien Thunder is a 1974 Canadian western film directed by Claude Fournier

Claude Fournier

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 and starring Donald Sutherland

Donald Sutherland

Donald McNichol Sutherland, OC is a Canadian actor with a film career spanning nearly 50 years. Some of Sutherland's more notable movie roles included offbeat warriors in such war movies as The Dirty Dozen, , MASH , and Kelly's Heroes , as well as in such popular films as Klute, Invasion of the...

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Synopsis

The story, based on the true story, follows a Canadian Mountie who wants to give an Indian

Native Americans in the United States

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 a fair trial for the murder of a fellow officer before he winds up being executed.

Cast

• Donald Sutherland
  Donald Sutherland
  Donald McNichol Sutherland, OC is a Canadian actor with a film career spanning nearly 50 years. Some of Sutherland's more notable movie roles included offbeat warriors in such war movies as The Dirty Dozen, , MASH , and Kelly's Heroes , as well as in such popular films as Klute, Invasion of the...
  
   as Sgt. Dan Candy
• Gordon Tootoosis as Almighty Voice
• Chief Dan George as Sounding Sky
• Kevin McCarthy
  Kevin McCarthy
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   as Sgt. Malcolm Grant
• Jean Duceppe
  Jean Duceppe
  Jean Hotte-Duceppe, CQ was a stage and television actor from Montreal, Quebec. He founded the Compagnie de théâtre Jean Duceppe in 1973....
  
   as Inspector Brisebois
• Francine Racette
  Francine Racette
  Francine Racette is a French-Canadian actress. She is the current and third wife of actor Donald Sutherland, and mother of three of his sons: actor Rossif Sutherland, actor Angus Sutherland, and Roeg Sutherland....
  
   as Emilie Grant
• Jack Creley as Arthur Ballentyne - Indian Agent
• James O'Shea
  James O'Shea
  James "Jay" O'Shea is an Irish professional footballer who plays for Milton Keynes Dons. He is primarily a right winger, but can also operate as a striker....
  
   as Edouard
• John Boylan
  John Boylan (Canadian actor)
  John Boylan is a Canadian film and television actor, recently best known for his supporting roles as Gary Strange in Being Erica, Deputy Police Chief Talbot in Blue Murder and Bishop Richard Cushing in The Kennedys....
  
   as Cpl. Harold Bellringer
• Lenny George as Rolling Grass
• Ernestine Gamble as Small Face
• Vincent Daniels as Many Birds
• Sarain Stump as Napoleon Royal

Suzette Arcand, Edna Brittain, Marshall Brittain, Agnes Smallchild, Philomene Gamble, Mary Scott

Mary Scott

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, Hub Donaldson, Maurice Dunster, Walter Mills

Walter Mills

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, Antony Parr, Reg McReynolds, Bud Stilling and Stan Thomas

Stan Thomas

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 also appear.

Production

Its filming locations were in Saskatchewan's Battleford, Duck Lake, and Saskatoon

Saskatoon

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