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Jan 1, 2022 · Born on this day (January 1) in 1933, William Fruet wrote and directed Wedding in White, Canada’s best film of 1972. In 1973, he sat down with me in Vancouver to talk about the importance of a domestic movie industry to the larger project of nation building.
William Fruet was born on 1 January 1933 in Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. He is a director and writer, known for The House by the Lake (1976), The Egg Factory (2008) and Code Name: Eternity (2000). Menu
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Sep 3, 2021 · William Fruet is responsible for a handful of notable “B” movies of yesteryear; Blue Monkey, Funeral Home, Killer Party, Spasms, and Trapped all have that touch of weirdness the filmmaker is ...
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Director William Fruet. Year 1972. Run Time 103min. Genre Drama. A harsh and note-perfect portrayal of small-town Ontario during World War II.
Reviews. Wedding in White. Drama. 103 minutes ‧ 1973. Roger Ebert. May 30, 1973. 3 min read. Jeannie is the kind of girl you can never remember from high school: sort of pretty in a faded way, not very bright and weighted down with a vast lack of confidence.
Fruet’s other scripts of note include Rip-Off (1971), also directed by Shebib, and Slipstream (1973). Wedding in White (1972), which Fruet adapted from his own stage play, marked his directorial debut and was very well received. It won a Canadian Film Award for Best Picture and is still considered a classic of the period.
Budget. $3 million Canadian [ 1 ] Blue Monkey is a 1987 Canadian horror film directed by William Fruet and starring Steve Railsback, Gwynyth Walsh, Susan Anspach, Don Lake, Sandy Webster, Helen Slayton-Hughes, and John Vernon. The film centers on a group of doctors trapped in a quarantined hospital as a giant insect-like creature begins to ...
