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- The real-life story behind "Where the Rivers Flow North" is the stuff of independent film makers' fantasies. A Vermonter named Jay Craven put together the money for his film from a variety of sources, ranging from foreign sales rights to local small investors, and made the kind of period piece that would be produced in Hollywood only as a fluke.
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Where the Rivers Flow North is a 1993 American drama film directed by Jay Craven and starring Rip Torn, Tantoo Cardinal, Treat Williams and Michael J. Fox. It is based on Howard Frank Mosher 's novel of the same name.
Where the Rivers Flow North: Directed by Jay Craven. With Rip Torn, Tantoo Cardinal, Bill Raymond, Mark Margolis. Log-driver Noel Lord defies power company boss Clayton Farnsworth, who orders Lord and his feisty American Indian mate off their soon-to-be-flooded land.
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- Drama
- Jay Craven
- 1994-03-04
Jan 1, 2001 · Where the Rivers Flow North encompasses the titular novella and a handful of stories, all of which beautifully encapsulate a certain way of life in Vermont's Northeast Kingdom, the kind of life that were one to wander that way today, you might find some (or many) aspects of it unchanged.
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- Howard Frank Mosher
Set in 1927, Where the Rivers Flow North tells the story of an old Vermont logger (Rip Torn as Noel Lord) and his Native American mate (Tantoo Cardinal as Bangor) who face the extinction of their way of life, when the building of a giant hydro dam threatens to flood them off their land.
Dec 7, 1994 · Although Lord is mule-stubborn, “Where the Rivers Flow North,” which is set in 1927, refreshingly does not evolve into a predictable David vs. Goliath struggle. The conflict is instead really...
The title novella is a McCabe & Mrs. Miller-esque masterwork that tells of old Noël Lord’s refusal to leave his ancestral land in 1927 when the Northern Vermont Power Company decides to build a dam.
Though I changed the names and some details, that story is almost literally true. A Stranger in the Kingdom is based on a very ugly racist event that took place in my hometown of Irasburg.
