I can’t think of any Canadian westerns I have encountered so I snapped up the opportunity to watch “Place of Bones” set in 1876 Canada.
In many respects it is a traditional 1950’s and 1960’s western. Good god-fearing sodbusters Pandora Meadow (Heather Graham) and her daughter Hester (Brielle Robillard) living a marginal existence in a remote location some 90 miles from the nearest town. Memories of “Shane”.
Their seemingly peaceful life is rattled when Hester finds an unconscious and bullet riddled man Bob Calhoun (Corin Nemec) on their property. They drag him into the house uncertain if he will survive particularly with a nasty bullet wound the leg which has shattered his bone. Calhoun is a bank robber. A very mean man and a double-dealing multiple killer not to be trusted even within his gang.
His gang at least those he has not double crossed and murdered is after him tracking him to the Meadow’s homestead. Calhoun is a bad man but gang leader Bare John (Tim Hopper) is just as nasty perhaps even more so.
The robbers are a bunch of nasties in acts but in words Pandora is a violent woman. God fearing you may think! What can happen when you open Pandora’s box?
Speaking of what you think you may be ready to walk away thinking good defeated evil in a messy shootout. Think again. Beneath the veneer of the good, bad and the ugly the good have a taste for the” finer things in life”. Think of Ernest Borgnine in “Marty”.
Directed by Audrey Cummings.
Toronto premiere at the Canadian Film Fest on 20March2024. Check out their website at https://www.canfilmfest.ca/place-of-bones
You can watch the trailer here https://www.canfilmfest.ca/place-of-bones
RKS 2024 Film Rating 86/100.
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