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The Quest (1958 film)

The Quest
Directed byStanley Jackson
Written byLeslie McFarlane
Produced byNicholas Balla
Stanley Jackson
StarringLeo Ciceri
Dennis Stanway
Norman Ettlinger
CinematographyReginald H. Morris
Edited byRobert Russell
Bernard Bordeleau (sound)
Music byEldon Rathburn
Production
company
Release date
  • 1958 (1958)
Running time
38:13 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageEnglish

The Quest is a 1958 Canadian short drama film, directed by Stanley Jackson for the National Film Board of Canada.[1]

The film is a re-enactment of the critical year in the life of Dr. Frederick Banting, during which he discovered insulin. It dramatizes the odds against which he and his assistant, Charles Best, worked, the skepticism of other doctors at the University of Toronto, and the final victory which gave countless diabetics a new hope of health.

The Quest was one of three co-winners, alongside The Tall Country and Money Minters, of the Canadian Film Award for Best Theatrical Short Film at the 11th Canadian Film Awards in 1959.[2] It also won the Diploma of Merit at the Film Concourse at HYPSA Health & Sports Exhibition in Bern.

References

  1. ^ Gary Evans, In the National Interest: A Chronicle of the National Film Board of Canada from 1949 to 1989. University of Toronto Press, 1991. ISBN 9780802068330. p. 55.
  2. ^ Maria Topalovich, And the Genie Goes To...: Celebrating 50 Years of the Canadian Film Awards. Stoddart Publishing, 2000. ISBN 0-7737-3238-1. pp. 45-47.


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