Reel 1761

Movie: According to director Francis Mankiewicz, "Murders are always mysteries. You always wonder at what stage something clicks." It clicks in a "collision of circumstances" in the conclusion of Mankiewicz's "Conspiracy of Silence," a ★★★ 1991 Canadian TV-movie that re-creates with harrowing intensity the murder of a Cree woman, abducted by four drunken, young white men on a cold November night in 1971. Location footage in Sturgeon Falls, Ont., lends realism to the drama.

Movie: According to director Francis Mankiewicz, "Murders are always mysteries. You always wonder at what stage something clicks." It clicks in a "collision of circumstances" in the conclusion of Mankiewicz's "Conspiracy of Silence," a ★★★ 1991 Canadian TV-movie that re-creates with harrowing intensity the murder of a Cree woman, abducted by four drunken, young white men on a cold November night in 1971. Location footage in Sturgeon Falls, Ont., lends realism to the drama.