
The story of the people building the AVRO Arrow, an advanced jet fighter-interceptor designed to defend Canada's vast territory during the Cold War. Though the jet was an engineering marvel, cost over-runs, U.S. government pressure from the military industrial complex, and the election of the Progressive Conservative Diefenbaker government, stopped the jet just as it was getting off the ground.

as Crawford Gordon

as James (Jim) Floyd

as Kate O'Hara

as Jack Woodman

as Jim Chamberlain

as Fred Syme

as Edward Chritchley

as Joe Paloffski

as Ruby Paloffski

as CD Howe

as John Diefenbaker

as Dwight D. Eisenhower

as CIA Director

as George Hees

as June Callwood

as Colonel Fairchild

as Major General George Pearkes

as Jan Zurakowski

as Air Marshall Wilf Curtis

as worker 1

as Bartender (uncredited)

as Claire Connors

as Mary Gordon

as John Pallet

as George O'Hara