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 The Old West:  Belle (Lisa Barnes) and Cole (Beau Yotti) are both accomplished bounty hunters whose paths have so far never crossed - that is until now, when they each capture one of the Wolf-brothers (William Chandler, Keith Lopez) and now feel themselves forced to split the reward, something neither of them is particularly fond of. However, the local Sheriff's (Mark Speno) is on the payroll of local richman and crook Clayton (John Marrs), so the brothers are out the very next day and want to have their revenge on Belle - and Cole shoots them both dead to save her - much to the dismay of Clayton, who soon enough calls in the Eastener (Sky C. Donovan), the best hitman of the West. Not he's perfect bait for Belle and Cole, for her for the bounty to collect, for him because of personal reasons - so it's hardly surprising that they stumble each other more than once during the proceedings but decide on an uneasy truce. But then Clayton proposes to Belle to bring Cole in alive for a sizeable amount, and of course her interest is piqued ..

Now this is not a film that invents the western genre anew, nor does it try to go the epic routeto follow the footsteps of the genre classics. Instead it tells a smaller scale story akin of the B-westerns of old from independent producers or poverty row studios like Monogram or PRC - if updated for modern audiences of course -, meaning instead of going for scope and grandeur, this film tries to make do with whaat's available, scales things down to limited locations and characters, and builds a gripping story out of what's available. And the film is welcomely charming about this, creating a fun yet stringent  hodgepodge out of genre tropes involving many a shoot-out and chase and even a (somewhat predictable) romance. In a word, good western entertainment for sure.

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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