''La Guêpe'' (literally "The Wasp", but titled either ''Skybolt'' or ''Scalp'' in English, depending on the market) is a 1986
drama
Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance: a play, opera, mime, ballet, etc., performed in a theatre, or on radio or television.Elam (1980, 98). Considered as a genre of poetry in general, the dramatic mode has been ...
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thriller film directed by
Gilles Carle
Gilles Carle, (July 31, 1928As fully funny, Carle had pleasure to always give himself one year less, and to let people think wrongly that he was born in 1929, "The Year of the Big World Crash": see on the Quebec French newspapers that many writer ...
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Plot
A young pilot witnesses the unintentional murder of her two sons (by a rich, drunken couple driving carelessly) and, following a court's decision not to press criminal charges, she decides to get her revenge.
Cast
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Chloé Sainte-Marie as Chloé Richard
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Warren Peace
Geoffrey Alexander MacCormack, better known as Warren Peace, is an English vocalist, composer and dancer best known for his work with David Bowie in the 1970s.
Musical career
A long-time friend of Bowie since their schooldays in Bromley, Peace ...
as Steven Cook
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Donald Pilon as Delphis Martin
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Ethne Grimes as Stéphanie
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Claude Gauthier as Louis Richard
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Gilbert Turp as Marc
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Paul Buissonneau
Paul Georges Buissonneau, (born 24 December 1926 – 30 November 2014) was a leading francophone theatre director in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Born in Paris, France, Buissonneau started his career as a singer with the French chorus Les Compagnon ...
as Joseph Lambert
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Alain Villeneuve as Le ministre
References
External links
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1986 films
Films shot in Montreal
1986 thriller films
Canadian thriller films
French-language Canadian films
1980s Canadian films
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