Now That April's Here
{{short description|1958 Canadian film directed by William Davidson}}
{{Infobox film
| name = Now That April’s Here
| image =
| caption =
| director = William Davidson
| producer = {{ubl|William Davidson|Norman Klenman}}
| writer = Norman Klenman
| narrator = Raymond Massey
| starring = {{ubl|Don Borisenko|Judy Welch|John Drainie|Katherine Blake|Tony Grey|Walter Massey|Beth Amos|Alan Hood|Nancy Lou Gill|Fred Diehl|Anne Collings|Kathy McNeil}}
| music = John Hubert Bath
| cinematography = William H. Gimmi
| editing = {{ubl|William Davidson|Norman Klenman}}
| distributor = International Film Distributors
| released = {{film date|1958|6|20}}
| runtime = 84 minutes
| country = Canada
| language = English
| budget = $75,000 (estimated)
| gross =
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Now That April’s Here is a 1958 English-Canadian feature from William Davidson and Norman Knelman based on short stories by Morley Callaghan.{{cite book|last1=Morris|first1=Peter|title=The Film Companion|url=https://archive.org/details/filmcompanion0000morr|url-access=registration|date=1984|publisher=Irwin Publishing|location=Toronto|isbn=0-7725-1505-0|pages=[https://archive.org/details/filmcompanion0000morr/page/84 84–85]}}
Synopsis
An early English-Canadian movie shot on the streets of Toronto, Ontario in 1957 and one of the first Canadian feature films to be produced outside of Quebec. Producers William Davidson and Norman Klenman{{cite journal|last1=Morris|first1=Peter|title=Before the Beginning: William Davidson's & Norman Klenman's Now That April's Here|journal=Take One: Film & Television in Canada|date=July 2002|volume=11|issue= 38|pages=12–18}} chose as their source a collection of short stories by Morley Callaghan that had been written in the 1930s known as Now That April’s Here{{cite book|last1=Callaghan|first1=Morley|title=Now That April's Here|date=1936|publisher=Random House|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=H85HAAAAYAAJ&q=now+that+april%27s+here|access-date=June 17, 2017}} (curiously the four they selected to film did not include the title story: ‘Silk Stockings,’ ‘Rocking Chair,’ ‘The Rejected One’ and ‘A Sick Call’). The screenplay was written specifically as a feature, not as a series of short television dramas, with a common Toronto locale, and the filmmakers got the tacit support of producer/exhibitor Nat Taylor. It was released with some fanfare in the summer of 1958.
Raymond Massey provided the voice-over narration linking the four stories; however, the film was dismissed by Variety for its ‘amateurish production and acting values’ and it died at the box office.{{cite web|last1=Plummer|first1=Kevin|title=Historicist: Now That April's Here|url=http://torontoist.com/2015/04/historicist-now-that-aprils-here/|website=Torontoist|date=18 April 2015 |access-date=June 17, 2017}}
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External links
- {{IMDb title|0251907|Now That April’s Here}}
Category:Films shot in Toronto
Category:Films based on Canadian short stories
Category:English-language Canadian films