Gunless English Western Movie 2010
Cast And Crew
Actor: Sienna Guillory,
Tyler Mane, Callum Keith Rennie, Graham Greene,
Jody Racicot, Dustin Milligan, Michael Eklund,
Donavon Stinson, Paul Gross, Alex Zahara
Director: William Phillips
Writer:William Phillips
Producer: Niv Fichman,
Shawn Williamson, Stephen Hegyes,
Cynthia Chapman
Screenwriter: William Phillips
Editor: Susan Maggi
Story: William Phillips
Genre: Comedy, Western
Release Date: April 30, 2010
MPAA Rating: Not Rated
Distributor: Alliance
Runtime:1 hour 32 minutes
Gunless Synopsis :
A hardened American gunslinger is repeatedly thwarted in his attempts to mount a showdown in a friendly town in Canada where no one seems to understand or appreciate the brutal code of the American Wild West.free Gunless English Hollywood Film The film Directed by William Phillips.
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Gunless Hollywood Movie Reviews :
Gunless — a wily Canadian western comedy starring Paul Gross that opens next Friday — might never have made it to the screen had its co-producer, Niv Fichman, the Toronto filmmaker renowned for such high-toned movies as Passchendaele, The Red Violin, Ravel’s Brain and Silk, not stumbled into a mountain-ringed valley during a wine tour of B.C.’s Okanagan region with fellow connoisseurs du vin, former Governor-General Adrienne Clarkson, and writer John Ralston Saul.
“It was beautiful country . . . it looked like a desert surrounded by snow-capped mountains, with lots of dust, and even sagebrush blowing around,” Fichman told the Star.
“I couldn’t believe we were in Canada, in this wonderful restaurant in B.C. wine country. There was something authentically western about it — big blue skies, lots of sunshine. I promised myself that if I ever made a western, this would be the perfect location.”
As it turned out, Fichman soon found himself working on a script with Vancouver writer-director Bill Phillips and co-producer Steve Hedges, about an American outlaw, the Montana Kid (Gross), who inadvertently winds up in a tiny hamlet, Barclay’s Brush (pop. 17), on the northern side of the U.S.-Canada border in the late 1800s, a place where handguns are illegal and gunslingers have no cachet.
“Everyone was thinking we should shoot in Alberta, till I remembered this little valley in B.C.,” Fichman said. “When the others saw it, there was no doubt about where Barclay’s Brush would be built.”
The best westerns — Shane, Deadwood, Unforgiven — are notable for their town sets, and the creators of Gunless were determined to make Barclay’s Brush as memorable as the movie’s main characters, even working within the constraints of a Canadian budget.
As envisioned by Phillips and production designer Matthew Budgeon, Barclay’s Brush was constructed by a local crew from aged, cast-off wood from nearby sawmills, and furnished with objects from Okanagan antique stores, museums and flea markets.
It ended up consuming a million of the movie’s $8.5-million allotment, Fichman said.
“That’s totally disproportionate. But the location was perfect, and the topography of the town, with facades and roof-lines that reflected the angles of the mountains in the distance, made it worthwhile.
“It meant we had to shoot the movie in five weeks instead of six, but there was a built-in efficiency in creating the set from scratch. We saved and money by not having to move crews from one site to another, and every detail, right down to the nails, was authentic. The town became an integral part of the movie experience.”
Creating a movie town from the ground up, even one with just six or seven buildings, is daunting, said Budgeon on the phone from his home in Vancouver. Phillips, Fichman and Hedges all give him credit for something truly unique, a set that measures up to the highest cinematic western standards.
“It’s a huge responsibility,” Budgeon said. “Westerns are the cornerstone of modern cinema. We looked at lots of historical and movie references, but in the end we had to create something that had never been done before, a Canadian western town that reflected what was going on in Canada at the time — the immigration routes, the railroad, ties to the British Empire. We weren’t making a documentary, but we had to be true to the time and place.”
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