Filmed in Toronto by by Warner Bros for HBO in Canada, released in 1986 for cable TV by Lorimar Motion Pictures, color, mono sound, 95 mins.
Production:
Directed by John Mackenzie
Written by Trevor Armbrister and Scott Spencer, based on the 1975 book Act of Vengeance by Armbrister, journalist and senior editor at Reader's Digest
Produced by Jack Clements and Frank Konigsberg
Cinematography by Phil Meheux
Film Editing by Malcolm Cooke and Stephen Singleton
Sound Editing by Marvin Walowitz and Karen G. Wilson
Cast:
Charles Bronson as Jock Yablonski
Ellen Burstyn as wife Margaret Yablonski
Wilford Brimley as Tony Boyle
Hoyt Axton as Silous Huddleston
Robert Schenkkan as Paul Gilly
Ellen Barkin as Annette Gilly
Maury Chaykin as Claude Vealey
Caroline Kava as Charlotte Yablonski
Peg Murray as Ellen Rogers
William Newman as Ezra Morgan
Alan North as Albert Pass
Raynor Scheine as Terrance Madden
Tom Harvey as Warren Alexander
Alf Humphreys as Ken Yablonski
Joseph Kell as Chip Yablonski
Ken Pogue as Earl Skidmore
Keanu Reeves as Buddy Martin
Notes:
This film is based on the true story of Jock Yablonski and his attempt to unseat corrupt Tony Boyle as leader of the United Mine Workers in 1969. Yablonski had been a loyal union man until an accident in a West Virginia coal mine killed 80 workers and Boyle defended the mine owners rather than the rank-and-file working in unsafe conditions. Boyle stole the election from Yablonski and sent assassins to murder his family.
