Complete credited cast: | |||
Sam Elliott | ... | Con Vallian | |
Tom Conti | ... | Duncan McKaskel | |
Kate Capshaw | ... | Susanna McKaskel | |
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Kenny Morrison | ... | Tom McKaskel |
Matt Clark | ... | Doc Shabitt | |
Patrick Kilpatrick | ... | The Ute | |
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Jerry Potter | ... | Red Hayle |
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Billy Streater | ... | Ike Mantle |
Del Shores | ... | Purdy Mantle | |
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R.L. Tolbert | ... | Johnny Dobbs |
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Jeffrey Meyer | ... | Butcher McCloud (as Jeffrey M. Meyer) |
Kurt D. Lott | ... | Lenny Shabitt | |
Hardy Rawls | ... | Joy the Blacksmith | |
Larry Sellers | ... | Running Wolf | |
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Bill Stedman | ... | Bartender |
Duncan and Susanna McKaskel are a young married couple travelling to the West with their son, hoping to start a new life. Along the way, they stop in a small town where they meet a gang of bandits led by Doc Shabitt. After Duncan unintentionally angers the gang, he and Susanna flee the town, but Shabitt leads his men in pursuit of revenge. A mysterious stranger by the name of Con Vallian soon begins helping the family as they try to find a new home and protects them from Shabitt's gang. Written by John Hitchcock
This is a medium key film with a solid story line. You have to admire the economy with which HBO produced this film. Only about a dozen actors ever appear and most of them are gone by film's end. The pacing isn't fast but it's sure. Elliot moves through the phases of mysterious stranger to family friend and a logical fashion. Likewise Conti and Capshaw progress from greenhorns to being a self reliant family unit.