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The Englishman's Boy

2008 • 3.3 • Drama, Western • 87m

CA • English

Writers: Guy Vanderhaeghe

Haunting Film recalls a tragic journey that culminates in one of the most brutal historical events in Canadian history - the Cypress Hills Massacre

Cast

Michael Eisner

as The Englishman's Boy

Katharine Isabelle

as Norma Carlyle

Bob Hoskins

as Damon Ira Chance

Nicholas Campbell

as Shorty McAdoo

Tantoo Cardinal

as Little Soldier's Wife

Cavan Cunningham

as Southern Gentleman

Alden Adair

as Prison Guard

Adrien Dorval

as Fitz

Episodes

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Part One

E1 87m

In 1873, a young drifter, the "Englishman's boy" joins a group of wolf hunters led by the brutal Hardwick on the trail of horse thieves. In 1920s Hollywood, writer Harry Vincent is engaged by movie mogul Damon Ira Chance to track down Shorty McAdoo, an old-time Western actor whose story will be the basis of the producer's new film.

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Part Two

E2 87m

Hardwick provokes his posse into the brutal Cypress Hills massacre. The Boy survives but is tortured by what he has seen. Old-time Western actor Shorty McAdoo is betrayed by both movie mogul Chance and Hollywood writer Vincent, and is driven to seek revenge.