Canadian Western. Which is to say, not much of a Western at all. (Rather more of a north Western, whatever that might be: pine trees, Mounties, and whatever.) And not much of a character portrait either. The subject is the outlaw Bill Miner, who, after a long interlude in prison, is released into the 20th Century, and, with the cinematic inspiration of Edwin S. Porter's Great Train Robbery, becomes a living legend as a Robin Hood of the rails. It is hard to see how. What we see of his new career is one small success sandwiched between two botches. Richard Farnsworth, as Miner, has a nice easy way with a line, but time and again he is left high and dry in underwritten and underdeveloped (not to mention underlit) vignettes. The whole show has a feeling of dead air. Directed by Phillip Borsos. (1983) — Duncan Shepherd
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