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Retour à Legend City

Original title: Shadowheart
  • 2009
  • PG-13
  • 1h 55m
IMDb RATING
4.6/10
690
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Retour à Legend City (2009)
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As a boy, he saw his preacher father murdered. As a soldier, he witnessed the horrors of the Civil War. Now bounty hunter James Conners is back in Legend, New Mexico to capture the psychotic... Read allAs a boy, he saw his preacher father murdered. As a soldier, he witnessed the horrors of the Civil War. Now bounty hunter James Conners is back in Legend, New Mexico to capture the psychotic land baron who destroyed his childhood.As a boy, he saw his preacher father murdered. As a soldier, he witnessed the horrors of the Civil War. Now bounty hunter James Conners is back in Legend, New Mexico to capture the psychotic land baron who destroyed his childhood.

  • Director
    • Dean Alioto
  • Writers
    • Dean Alioto
    • Peter Vanderwall
    • Brad Goodman
  • Stars
    • Angus Macfadyen
    • Justin Ament
    • Marnie Alton
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  • IMDb RATING
    4.6/10
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    • Director
      • Dean Alioto
    • Writers
      • Dean Alioto
      • Peter Vanderwall
      • Brad Goodman
    • Stars
      • Angus Macfadyen
      • Justin Ament
      • Marnie Alton
    • 26User reviews
    • 3Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
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    Angus Macfadyen
    Angus Macfadyen
    • Will Tunney
    Justin Ament
    Justin Ament
    • James Conners
    Marnie Alton
    Marnie Alton
    • Mary Cooper
    Tonantzin Carmelo
    Tonantzin Carmelo
    • Miakoda
    Michael Spears
    Michael Spears
    • Washakie
    William Sadler
    William Sadler
    • Thomas Conners
    Dean Alioto
    Dean Alioto
    • Spider
    Ines Dali
    • Velma
    Anthony Michael Jones
    Anthony Michael Jones
    • Charlie
    Courtney Gains
    Courtney Gains
    • Finch
    Shawn Reaves
    Shawn Reaves
    • Johny Cooper
    Charles Napier
    Charles Napier
    • Sheriff Sanders
    Daniel Baldwin
    Daniel Baldwin
    • Mr. T.S. McKinley
    Steve Pink
    Steve Pink
    • O'Toole
    Rance Howard
    Rance Howard
    • Wedding Preacher
    Mark Alioto
    • Thug #3
    Matt Alioto
    • Thug #4
    Ruby Alioto
    • Penny
    • Director
      • Dean Alioto
    • Writers
      • Dean Alioto
      • Peter Vanderwall
      • Brad Goodman
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    2amills-18

    Dreck

    As I watched this terrible film, I was reminded of a bad High School drama project. The characters are one dimensional, the story line is something that any HS kid could come up with, very formulaic.

    The score leaves nothing to the imagination. You have the soaring violins and happy sounds when we meet the dad and are expected to learn what a good man he is, as an example.

    Bad guy goes from having rotten teeth in the beginning of the movie, and 15 years later has a set of pearly whites. I guess they invented cosmetic dentistry in the interim.

    And even small things, like the guns are from the early 1800s, but are supposed to be late 1800s models.

    Looking at the film, you realize there was some budget here, as the cinematography is fine, but the rest of the film is just dreck.
    3jorguy

    Too many slips ups in authenticity prevented me from enjoying this movie.

    This movie could have been more fun than it was but some of the people in charge of doing it right either didn't care or lacked the knowledge to do it right.

    Some of the plot was predictable and seemed amateurish. The plot lacked realism and it didn't have to do so. For example, at one point our star is seriously wounded, but recovers with amazing speed as does his brother-in-law who experiences a painful injury. Within a day or two both are up and moving around like there was nothing wrong them. The director could have shown these guys slowly recovering and show some pain from their wounds once they do get back into action. Come on. That would have been easy!

    The film lacked period authenticity. There is an outdoor evening wedding dance that is illuminated by what appear to be round "Chinese lanterns." Inside can be seen light bulbs. This is suppose to be 1865 and post Civil War. The light bulb hadn't been invented yet! Who was your technical adviser on this show?

    A period of time elapses from the opening scene to the later ones and yet some of the characters never aged. The sheriff looked older in the beginning of the movie than he did at the end. In the opening scene two women are seen walking down the street with dome like parasols over their heads. Amazingly these women show up walking down the street years later with the same parasols.

    There was no need to make out two surveyors to be bumbling eastern hicks. They could certainly still show fear at having been threatened but surveyors in the west would not have looked, acted and been dressed like that. The costumer, Jenevieve Busseau, and Wardrobe supervisor, Fanny Mac, get low marks for authenticity in this movie.

    During the early Civil War battle scenes we see Union infantrymen with bright white canteen straps. These appear to have been newly issued from the prop department. Canteen straps got dirty pretty quick during the war and the prop guys should have dirtied them up so they could hardly be seen.

    In the battle scene we see the bright yellow stripe of a cavalry sergeant as he bayonets a Confederate soldier. Possible, but more believable would have been to see another Infantryman doing it. Cavalrymen didn't tend to carry rifles that had bayonets unless they were mounted Infantry and then they wouldn't be showing that yellow stripe.

    Questionable authenticity is also true in the scene where a few Navajo Indians are being herded of by some Union troops and being taken to a reservation. In addition in that scene, neither the commanding officer or his subordinate officer wore shoulder straps or any kind of insignia. After the Civil War the volunteers were back in their home states. The Regular Army was back in charge and uniform regulations would have been more adhered to. It is doubtful that two officers would have been dressed like these two were in the herding scene. The subordinate's double breasted coat indicates his rank as being that of a major or higher. That means that you had a major and his superior officer, who had to be at least a colonel, leading a small band of less than a dozen Indians to a reservation. Nope. Wouldn't have happened.

    In another scene, the first prisoner that our star brings in to justice doesn't have a hat. Why not? It was hot. Everyone wore and kept a hat. The prisoners face was well tanned though, as if during the day he didn't wear a hat. Maybe he was a 2009 tanned movie star and not an 1860's desperado! Take a look at today's cowboys and farmers. The tops of their foreheads are white from being shaded from the sun by their hats. Put a hat on the bad guy!

    There were more but that's enough. In summary, while some scenes were well done and the actors were appropriately dressed, there were too many slip ups to let us just sit back and enjoy the movie. Let's hope the next attempt at a western or a Civil War period movie hires technical experts that will be listened to and will thus help make the film more believable.
    1cckling

    Talk about predictable!!!

    This was probably the worst movie I have seen in many years. It went from the youngster starting out on his own and returning after the war to retrieve his past. He saves the Indian couple who later return to save him. He takes on the bully who killed his father. The bully takes everyone's land because the railroad is coming. He marries the heroine, she dies, and he seeks revenge. Guess who comes out on top in the end? What a terrible movie...no wonder it never made the theaters...nobody would pay to see it. (the music was good however). The acting was as predictable as the movie itself...Spider as the wicked henchman who didn't say anything but carried out his orders...Connor who was beaten and shot, yet recovers in a matter of hours (in the same time frame that Mary's brother never knew she had been killed) gets a horse and a gun and rides into town for revenge only to be challenged by the brother to get the marshal. Talk about clichés.
    dsadler40

    I don't know what this guy is thinking

    The movie was great. The first comment was absolute trash and he needs to just enjoy movies for movies, and not "critique shots" and think that him and his child could write a better plot. It isn't always about the technical aspects. You are just looking for something to be wrong with every movie and can't enjoy a fictional tale. It's like getting upset with the Matrix because there's no way you could do any of that. So I guess what you are saying is that Tombstone sucked too eh? (No I bet you liked that one even though the good guys had a fraction of a chance. But I guess that's OK since it's Kilmer and Russell, right?) It is essentially the same story, which most westerns are. Good guy comes in to clean up town controlled by bad guys. Just GAD and learn to enjoy the stories for once.
    3marina-31

    Couldn't bring myself to care

    The first thing I pay attention to in watching a movie is whether I care about the characters. I couldn't bring myself to care about these people, mostly because the writing and acting was not good enough. The feel of the whole thing was that it was amateurish. The story didn't flow in a way that felt real. Also, I don't like stories where there's not a good resolution or denouement, even if not a happy ending. This didn't leave me with the feeling of satisfaction. The theme seemed to be relentless evil without any real hope of the good guy winning out in the end. Without giving away the end, I'll just say that if it was meant to tie up the plot, it failed to work for me. I wouldn't recommend this movie to anyone.

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    • Trivia
      The film was dedicated to Justin Ament's Grandfather who died right before production.
    • Goofs
      When James is having a flashback series of what all he's lost, he has one in which he sees his father being shot by Tunney and falling off the church roof. He was not present to witness his father being murdered by Tunney so he couldn't be having a flashback of it.
    • Quotes

      Will Tunney: [Following a shootout] Wow that was exciting... got all my men... even had a winning hand... why couldn't you let me be.

      [last lines]

      Will Tunney: Time to say a prayer... what the?

    • Soundtracks
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      Written by Kevin McNiven

      Performed by Kevin McNiven

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    • Release date
      • May 4, 2011 (France)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Shadowheart
    • Filming locations
      • Agoura Hills, California, USA
    • Production companies
      • Desert Moon Pictures
      • Indiesyndicate Productions
      • JBA Productions
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    • Budget
      • $10,000,000 (estimated)
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 55 minutes
    • Color
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    • Aspect ratio
      • 2.35 : 1

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