Version:.Also produced in an abridged television version of 76 min. 5 sec. under the same title, title code: 106C 0170 066.

Director, William Weintraub ; script, William Weintraub ; producer, Desmond Dew ; photography, Don Virgo, Eugene Boyko, Jacques Fogel ; sound, Jean-Guy Normandin ; editing, Lucien Marleau ; sound editing, Bernard Bordeleau ; re-recording, Roger Lamoureux, Michel Descombes ; music, Robert Fleming.

Narrator, Lorne Greene.

Recorded 1969.

A rather astonishing film showing how one man shed nearly half his body weight--63.5 kg of it (140 pounds)--by complete starvation under hospital observation. What brought him to so desperate a course, and how he managed to cope with it, is told with candor and humour by the fat man himself. Lorne Greene narrates the rest. Between times, the film leaves Gilles Lorrain and his lonely struggle to examine what other overweight people are doing, singly or in groups, to reduce to more normal proportions. Medical authorities comment on some misconceptions and malpractices of the slimming industry.

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Blue Ribbon Award, 1971 Special Jury Award, 1971 Gold Medal, 1971 Etrog for Best Film over 30 minutes, 1970

Description based on online resource; title from title screen (National Film Board of Canada, viewed 2023-08-10).