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A wonderfully quirky Western, brilliantly scripted by Thomas McGuane. A powerful, thoughtful, at times brutal, meditation on the lawlessness of the American west, a world where the thief and lawman are simply different sides of the same coin. One of the few truly major Westerns of the 70s, with a very clear vision of the historical role played by fear and violence in the taming of the wilderness. find out more...

Crusading frontier policeman Captain Stanley captures the fugitive Burns brothers, Charley and Mikey, at the scene of a bloody rape and murder. Informing Charley that he must kill his older brother, Arthur, in order to avoid the execution of Mikey, Stanley retreats to an old jailhouse and awaits the bloody outcome. Director John Hillcoat's second collaboration with Nick Cave (here contributing the film's screenplay and soundtrack), is a taut and often brutal character study of desperation ami find out more...