Love on the Nose

Ted Allans tale of communists bookies and gangsters in 1930s Montreal underwent several iterations before becoming the Stephen Leacockwinning novel Love is a Long Shot In this colourful rarelyscreened adaptation of this dark comedy Saul Rubinek plays an idealistic young Trotskyist who gets a job at a cigarstore a front for a bookies betting parlour It is here that he gets a streetwise education in politics corruption love and sex Directed by George Bloomfield Riel SCTV this film features a stellar supporting cast that includes Al Waxman Marilyn Lightstone Eugene Levy Maury Chaykin Kate Lynch Suzette Couture Harvey Atkin Joe Silver Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz Shivers and Paul Soles