The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
According to Richard Dreyfuss, he believed his performance in this film was so bad that his career would be over when it was released. This fear caused him to aggressively pursue the role of Matt Hooper in Jaws (1975).,When the Kravitzs are arguing in the bowling alley, the father's lips are moving before the line "if I was John D. Rockefeller" though no sound is heard. In the Super Channel's version, the subtitle indicates it should be "Shut up!", but in non-complete version, this sentence is missing.,Duddy: That's funny, last time I spoke to you, you couldn't raise four thousand dollars, remember sonny?,Features Blondie (1938),Symphony No. 5 in c minor, Op. 67
(uncredited)
Music by Ludwig van Beethoven
Arranged by Andrew Powell,The younger son of a working-class Jewish family in Montreal, Duddy Kravitz (Richard Dreyfuss) yearns to make a name for himself in society..

We start with the idea: "A man without land is nobody." From there, we get to a surreal Bar Mitzvah film, a pinball business, assorted other ventures and possible scams... all so Duddy can buy up some farmland, which he does under another name because he thinks farmers will not sell to Jewish people (although this is not clearly explained).

"Duddy Kravitz" has an important place in Canadian film history because it was the most commercially successful Canadian film ever made at the time of its release, and has thus been described as a 'coming of age' for Canadian cinema. One wonders how things have changed, because it seems that today (2017) Vancouver is one of the most-filmed cities in the world.,