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
