After living in the U.S.A. now for 30 years I still delight in explaining the origin of Black Friday for Canadians not a big shopping day like it is here. After showing the movie to many friends including U.S.A.F. personnel I finally came across someone who knew all about the Arrow. In response to the final scenes that suggest the fueled-and- ready-to-go was flown out over the lake he said that the plane still exists and is housed in a hanger near Area "51". This ex-pilot says he had not seen the plane but knew of it's existence through an uncle involved with Air Force experiments of all kinds. Wherever the truth lies it is still a wonderful movie and the mystique of that plane still out there somewhere keeps me coming back.

i think this was a good film because it was a true story in history and there was a lot of cutting corner's but they built a great aircraft that could break the sound barrier also great acting because it was a event in the 50's era for a Canadian aircraft design for a film also was this a two part film or did they pull this film from store's the same time they pulled it from TV. i watched the show on TV when it was daubed on TV also there were other film on at this time but this film was a different film type and you had to no something about air-plane and studying the event in history in school along with other event's Studied in school's in Canada and the state's and around the world in the different university offering history class's. good film and it was based on a true story up to the end of the end of project arrow. i still believe if the plane is in a museum there is a real plane 1 or more hidden in our planet somewhere were every they could have landed a complete aircraft with the fuel payload design and spec for this aircraft if not collecting dust some-were in a hanger or air-force base or area 51.

This could be one of the saddest movies I have ever seen because what happens but I won't give that away although it is pretty historically documented already.The Arrow is a nicely done TV movie that describes one of Canada's most magnificent contributions to aviation history as well as the Cold War, had it gone into production.The movie does make the prime minister kind of evil (although historically it wasn't totally his fault) but as far as I've researched looked to be quite on the nose. It is hard to believe that our neighbors to the north developed such an advanced jet back then (for any country) and the movie explains so very well. It also describes the financial portions of the program very well with both pluses (the sell of the Oreinda engines to France) and the drawbacks in a cold economy.It was truly a docu-drama as they threw in parts focusing in on the workers, principally Crawford Gordon but in all was an excellent portrayal of a tragic program (from a technological point-of-view).

Very good acting. But I do have a criticism.We are told in the credits that Kate O'Hara (Sarah Botsford) is a compound character created to represent all the women involved in the Arrow program. OK, so explain to me why she's inserted into the very top echelons of the company and the Canadian Government? C'mon.We are often only permitted to witness crucial scenes at a distance because the director feels it more important to feature Kate's face in the foreground.It sure looks like some ardent feminist with clout in the CBC lock-stepped director Don McBrearty into twisting a great movie.