Bethune: The Making of a Hero

MOVIE #1,157 • 🍿🍿🍿 • 09.21.23 It's time for Well, Hong?, an alphabetic review series on the complete filmography of actor JAMES HONG. This is Chapter 9... The making of notes on Wikipedia are far more interesting than the final product (the most expensive film in Canadian history at the time!). All apologies to Bethune-Heads out there, but this one was a SLOG and I didn’t watch most of it. James Hong is (allegedly) in this in a tiny role, but I bailed before he shows up (SORRY!). I actually tried to scan through the movie to find him but to no avail. It would seem strange for him to take on a non-speaking role at this point in his career and his character does have a name in the credits, so I am assuming he is in the final cut somewhere. But I guess we’ll never know for sure.

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Bethune: The Making of a Hero is a 1990 biographical period drama film directed by Phillip Borsos. The film is about the life and death of Norman Bethune, a Canadian physician who served as a combat surgeon during the Chinese Civil War. The cast includes Donald Sutherland as Bethune, Helen Mirren as Frances Penny Bethune, Colm Feore as Chester Rice, and Anouk Aimée as Marie-France Coudaire. It was released on August 27, 1990.