A sheep-mutilating, dimwit-sleuthing, darkly comic murder mystery from Newfoundland's comedy queen Mary Walsh.
In 1947 Whitbourne, Newfoundland, Alan Hepditch, a by-the-books but squeamish and somewhat dimwitted criminologist is constantly being tormented by his fellow ranger candidates and his sergeant, Bill O'Mara. Before Hepditch can quit, O'Mara, as a sort of punishment, assigns him to his first posting at Swyer's Harbour, where five sheep mutilations have taken place over the past year. When he arrives in Swyer's Harbour, Hepditch has a more serious crime to investigate, that of the murder of a local, mentally slow woman named Tryphenia Maud Pottle, better known to the locals as Young Triffie.
Acting
Fred Ewanuick's perfectly pathetic ranger—cowardly, clueless, weirdly endearing.
Production
Gorgeous 1947 Newfoundland period detail on what had to be a shoestring.
Writing
Walsh's savage wit turning sheep guts and murder into actual laughs.
Director
Mary Walsh
Fred Ewanuick
Ranger Alan Hepditch
Rémy Girard
Dr. Percy Melrose
Andrea Martin
Mrs. Grace Melrose
Mary Walsh
Aunt Millie Bishop
Colin Mochrie
Sgt. Bill O'Mara
Jonny Harris
Billy Head
Cathy Jones
Aunt Ducky Piercey
Andy Jones
Pastor Wilfred Pottle
Susan Kent
Mrs. Head
Marthe Bernard
Young Triffie
Pete Soucy
Ranger Jenkins
Luke Lawrence
Boy Getting Baptized
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
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