Product Details

• Actors: Keir Dullea, John Beck, Dayle Haddon, Elizabeth Ashley, Franz Russell
• Directors: Peter Pearson
• Producers: John F. Bassett, James Margellos
• Studio: Continental Video
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• ASIN: B000QX2U72
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #280,546 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

An enduring 1973 classic about small town hockey heroes and Canadian prairie life staring Keir Dullea (2001, A Space Odyssey), John Beck, Dayle Haddon and Elizabeth Ashley. Ricky Dillion (Dullea) is the town's local hockey hero, he is a fighter, a drinker, and womanizer who disregards the rules. He believes he's "larger than life" and lives his life in a fantasy - as if he were a "paperback hero", and in the fishbowl of a small town can get away with it! With the world in his hands and the girls at his feet, he is the king of his small Canadian town...until he finds out that they are closing the local hockey team. Then it seems his world is falling apart all around him...and he has to make one last stand for glory when he finds out that the team lost its financial support. There are plenty of memorable, witty scenes punctuated by a soundtrack that includes Gordon Lightfoot's "If You Could Read My Mind". A revered piece of Canadian film history; Paperback Hero won three Canadian Film Awards for cinematography, editing and sound recording.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Paperback Hero, November 15, 2010

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Steven Balyk (Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Paperback Hero aka "Last of the Big Guns" (VHS Tape)

A great movie, filmed in Delisle Saskatchewan. I knew a man that had worked in that town in the early 60's and had seen this movie and said that was EXACTLY what it was like there. In fact, when I saw this movie when it was first released I was sold on convertibles and have owned them ever since. If you look up Delisle Sask. on the internet today you will see a photo of the main street with the bar and there aren't too many changes.
This is a hard to get movie for whatever reason but well worth the effort in acquiring it.