''The Sweet and the Bitter'', also known as ''Savage Justice'', is a 1967 Canadian film directed by James Clavell.

Cast

* Yōko Tani as Mary Ota * Paul Richards as Rob MacRoy *

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as Duncan MacRoy *

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as Mrs. MacDonald *

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as Dick Kazanami * Teru Shimada as Tom Hirata

Production

In 1962 Clavell signed a two-picture deal with Panorama, a Canadian company, to produce and direct ''Circle of Greed'' in April and ''The Bitter and the Sweet'' in June. The former was not made. The film was the first production from a Canadian Company, Commonwealth, established by Oldřich Václavek, a Czech immigrant to Canada. The budget of CA $325,000 was raised from Canadian sources. Filming started 4 June 1962 in Vancouver at Commonwealth's Hollyburn Studios (later known as Panorama Studios). "I want to tell a story", said Clavell at the time. "If my story doesn't hold people, doesn't touch their emotions, then it is of no use. I go to the theatre and watch the reactions of the audience to my lines. They are quick to respond if a line is right. If they don't, I know something is wrong. ''King Rat'' is my first published novel and to write it I used what I had learned." Clavell enjoyed Vancouver and bought a house there. It was there he wrote ''King Rat''. The film was a "production nightmare". The producers and the studio owners wound up in a five-year legal battle that resulted in RCA stripping $350,000 worth of sound equipment from the dubbing stage. The studio would be barely used over the next few years, making only '' The Trap'' (1966),

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(1986),

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''.

Reception

The film was not released until 1967.

References

External links

* 1967 films Canadian drama films English-language Canadian films 1967 drama films 1960s Canadian films {{1960s-drama-film-stub