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Directed by | S. Wyeth Clarkson[1] |
Written by | Charles Johnston, S. Wyeth Clarkson, Grant Sauvé[1] |
Produced by | Phillip Daniels, Andrew Williamson, S. Wyeth Clarkson, Michael Vernon[1] |
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Cinematography | Rene Smith |
Edited by | Kerry Davie |
Music by | Ivan Barbotin |
Production company | Travesty Productions & Releasing[1] |
Distributed by | Lionsgate Entertainment |
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Running time | 82 minutes |
Country | Canada |
Budget | <C$1,000,000[2] |
The Mountie (U.S.: The Way of the West; U.K.: The Ranger; France: Lawman) is a 2011 Canadian Western film directed by S. Wyeth Clarkson, co-written by Clarkson, Charles Johnston, and Grant Sauvé.[1] Though drawing on elements of Canadian northern genre fiction, the film was pitched as a neo-spaghetti Western by Clarkson to its star, Andrew Walker. Walker plays a disgraced North-West Mounted Police officer dispatched in 1894 to survey the Yukon for a new garrison, where he encounters a small group of Russian settlers in a town in desperate need of law and order. The cast includes Earl Pastko as Olaf, a Russian Orthodox priest of dubious character, Jessica Paré as Amethyst, Olaf's scarred daughter, as well as George Buza, Tony Munch, Matthew G. Taylor, and John Wildman.