A hockey player in a small town begins to lose his grip on reality, and starts to believe that he is a gunslinger in the Old West.
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| Keir Dullea | ... | Rick Dylan | |
| Elizabeth Ashley | ... | Loretta | |
| John Beck | ... | Pov | |
| Dayle Haddon | ... | Joanna | |
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Franz Russell | ... | Big Ed |
| George R. Robertson | ... | Burdock | |
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Ted Follows | ... | Cagey |
| Linda Sorensen | ... | Mona | |
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Les Rubie | ... | Jock (as Les Ruby) |
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Jacquie Presly | ... | Marlene |
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Chet Robertson | ... | Father |
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Winnie Rowles | ... | Mother |
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Gerry Cooke | ... | Noogie |
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John Ottenberg | ... | Heavy |
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Linda Findlay | ... | Friend |
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A hockey player in a small town begins to lose his grip on reality, and starts to believe that he is a gunslinger in the Old West.
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small town | hockey | beer | male star appears nude | female star appears nude |Taglines:
every woman's had one... every man's been one... once... See more »Parents Guide:
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21 September 1973 (Canada) See more »Also Known As:
Der Westentaschen-Cowboy See more »Filming Locations:
Delisle, Saskatchewan, CanadaEdit
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I managed to get a VHS copy a few years back, and burned it to DVD-R for posterity.
Perhaps I'm oversimplifying by describing it as a "Canadian 'Breathless'", but I still find that the shortest good description I can come up with.
A lot less use of the Gordon Lightfoot music than I recall from years of watching it on Canadian TV, but that may just be fading memory rather than VHS music licensing problems.
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