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It drives Shane Harvey a bit bonkers: he’s read obit after obit of his friend Graham Greene, and none of them mentions the 1991 film Clearcut . Why does he think that is?
“This is a question, Allan, I have trouble answering,” says Harvey, who scored the film, talking to the Straight from his North Vancouver home. “For me it was by far his best work onscreen."
Arthur, the character played in the film by Greene, was terrifying, says Harvey says, who goes on to describe him as "pit-in-your-stomach scary".
"I don’t know if people were frightened enough not to want to present the subject matter back then," Harvey continues, "but I do know it was all around the time of the Oka crisi