Sunday in the Country

{{for|the 1984 film|A Sunday in the Country}}

{{Infobox film

| name = Sunday in the Country

| image = Sunday in the Country poster.jpg

| alt =

| caption = U.S theatrical release poster

| director = John Trent

| producer = David Perlmutter

| writer = Robert Maxwell
John Trent

| story = David Main

| starring = Ernest Borgnine
Michael J. Pollard
Hollis McLaren
Louis Zorich
Cec Linder

| music = Paul Hoffert
William McCauley

| cinematography = Marc Champion

| editing = Tony Lower

| studio = Quadrant Films
Impact Films
Canadian Film Development Corporation

| distributor = American International Pictures
Cinerama Releasing Corporation
EMI Films

| released = {{Film date|1974|11|22|United States}}

| runtime = 93 minutes

| country = Canada
United Kingdom

| language = English

| budget =

| gross =

}}

Sunday in the Country is a 1974 Canadian-British crime thriller film, directed by John Trent.Gerald Pratley, A Century of Canadian Cinema. Lynx Images, 2003. {{ISBN|1-894073-21-5}}. p. 211. The film stars Ernest Borgnine as Adam Smith, a country farmer who decides to enact vigilante justice when he discovers fugitive criminal Leroy (Michael J. Pollard) and his accomplices Dinelli (Louis Zorich) and Ackerman (Cec Linder) hiding out in his barn.Jim Clements, "Two hours of entertainment". Hamilton Spectator, March 29, 1975.

The cast also includes Hollis McLaren as Adam's granddaughter Lucy, as well as Vladimír Valenta, Al Waxman, Tim Henry, Murray Westgate, Ralph Endersby, Susan Petrie, Ratch Wallace, Mark Walker, Gary Reineke, Eric Clavering, David Hughes, Franz Russell, Ruth Springford, Alan King, Laddie Dennis, Joan Hurley, Winnifred Springett, Jonathan White, James Barron and Carl Banas in supporting roles.Harris Kirshenbaum, "A Sunday in the Country". Cinema Canada, 1974.

In his 2003 book A Century of Canadian Cinema, Gerald Pratley identified the film as one of the key progenitors of the trend in 1970s Canadian cinema to cast higher-profile American stars in lead roles to improve the film's international marketability.