Fires of Envy

A dramatization of Canadian author W.O. Mitchell's penetrating story about the racial prejudice encountered by a Polish immigrant farmer in a rural Saskatchewan community.

Cast

Sydney Brown

Tony Brown

Jack Creley

Mavor Moore

John Vernon

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