The Sweet and the Bitter, also known as Savage Justice, is a 1967 Canadian film directed by James Clavell.
[1] In 1962 Clavell signed a two-picture deal with Panorama, a Canadian company, to produce and direct Circle of Greed in April and The Bitter and the Sweet in June.
[2] The film was the first production from a Canadian Company, Commonwealth, established by Oldřich Václavek, a Czech immigrant to Canada.
The producers and the studio owners wound up in a five-year legal battle that resulted in RCA stripping $350,000 worth of sound equipment from the dubbing stage.
The studio would be barely used over the next few years, making only The Trap (1966), The Clan of the Cave Bear (1986), The Hitchhiker (TV Series) (1985,1986) and The Littlest Hobo.