Now That April's Here

Now That April’s Here
Directed by	William Davidson
Written by	Norman Klenman
Produced by	William Davidson Norman Klenman
Starring	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
Narrated by	Raymond Massey
Cinematography	William H. Gimmi
Edited by	William Davidson Norman Klenman
Music by	John Hubert Bath
Distributed by	International Film Distributors
Release date	June 20, 1958 (1958-06-20)
Running time	84 minutes
Country	Canada
Language	English
Budget	$75,000 (estimated)

Now That April’s Here is a 1958 English-Canadian feature from William Davidson and Norman Knelman based on short stories by Morley Callaghan.

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 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 (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.

External links

• Now That April’s Here at IMDb