F.R. Scott: Rhyme and Reason

This feature documentary looks at the multi-faceted career of Montrealer F.R. Scott (1899-1985), a poet, thinker and constitutional expert whose work and vision of social justice spanned and influenced an entire era. The film looks at Scott's role in the founding of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Party in the 1930s, his years as a teacher of constitutional law at McGill University, as a modernist poet, and as a champion of civil liberties. Highlights include Scott's courtroom challenges of the Duplessis regime in the 1950s, his support of the War Measures Act during the 1970 October Crisis in Québec, and readings from his poetry.

National Film Board of Canada

1982

Documentary

57 min.

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