High Plains Invaders (2009) (TV)

Director:

Kristoffer Tabori

Writer:

Richard Beattie (written by)

Release Date:

30 August 2009 (USA)

Genre:

Sci-Fi

Plot Keywords:

Dynamite | Bounty Hunter | Low Budget Film | Small Town | Spaceship

Cast

Constantin Barbulescu	...	Grizzled Miner
Dan Bordeianu	...	Deputy
Adriana Butoi	...	Prospector's Wife
Antony Byrne	...	Gus McGreevey
Sorin Cristea	...	Prospector Franklin
James Jordan	...	Sheriff
Sebastian Knapp	...	Jules Arning
Dugald Bruce Lockhart	...	Cornelius Harrington
Angus MacInnes	...	Silich Cure
James Marsters	...	Sam Danville
Cindy Sampson	...	Abigail
Sanny Van Heteren	...	Rose Hilridge

Also Known As:

Alien Western (Canada: English title) (working title)

Country:

Canada

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Certification:

Australia:MA (2009)

Filming Locations:

Romania

Company:

Muse Entertainment Enterprises

Goofs:

Anachronisms: Rose Hilridge (the bounty hunter)'s gun is a Smith & Wesson Military & Police Model (.38 special) double action revolver. The M&P wasn't initially developed until 1899 and her model is an early 20th century variant. In fact most of the handguns are too modern for the time period. Only some Colt 1873 Single Action Army revolvers seen in the background (that are never fired) are not anachronistic to 1892.

Quotes:

Gus McGreevey: Every condemned man gets a last request. What's yours gonna be?
Sam Danville: Well, I wouldn't mind if they'd built that gallows a little higher. I'd prefer it if my neck snapped straight off instead of strangling slow-like. There's no dignity in a death like that.
Gus McGreevey: Ask for a cigar.
Sam Danville: Hmm, why's that?
Gus McGreevey: The sheriff brings them in special and hates having to share, even with a dying man.
Sam Danville: Never did kind to smoking. Nearly choked me to death the first time I tried.
Gus McGreevey: Death by cigar. Sure beats a noose.

Modern meets period with bizarre results

Let me start off by saying that it's better than most of the pot boiler Sci Fi channel movies. It makes a tiny bit of pseudo science fiction sense.

I'll start off with a pet peeve of mine, ridiculous gun handling. They mixed extremely modern guns with period guns with no rhyme or reason. Modern Smith and Wesson revolvers in stainless steel with modern target sights and ventilated ribs are used side by side with ones that almost could be period. It's sloppy, very sloppy.

It's no gem. It's pleasant, something to watch when you've had a bad day and are just in the mood to relax to something mindless. Unfortunately I found many of the characters ridiculously bad. The worst was the woman bounty hunter. She was just too 21st century politically correct, but she wasn't the only one.