A very strong drama, laid on the outline of a typical western.
The end of the 19th century, a small town, located in an Australian remote, is terrorized by the band of violators and killers led by Arthur Burns.
A British officer, Captain Stanley is tired of his dirty official duties. Nevertheless he decides definitely to clear this place not refusing any means.
He manages to catch two youngest Burns. The Captain proposed to the second brother Charlie a very shady transaction: within nine days he must bring a head of his elder brother, Arthur, otherwise his younger brother Mike will be sent to the gallows...
Despite all horrors making on the screen by the uncontrolled gangsters, the character of David seems to be much more disgusting: a very respectable, well educated and influential gentleman and imperious, slippery, heartless sadist, which organizes in the name of his ambitions and beggarly ideas of justice a bloody punishment of the half-witted boy, thereby provoking much more terrible terror...
Cast:
Ray Winstone ...Captain Stanley
Emily Watson ...Martha Stanley
Guy Pearce ...Charlie Burns
Richard Wilson ...Mike Burns
Danny Huston ...Arthur Burns
David Wenham ...Eden Fletcher
John Hurt ...Jellon Lamb
Tom Budge ...Samuel Stoat
Tommy Lewis ...Two Bob
David Gulpilil ...Jacko
Robert Morgan ...Sergeant Lawrence
Bryan Probets ...Officer Dunn
Oliver Ackland ...Patrick Hopkins
Leah Purcell ...Queenie
Boris Brkic ...Officer Halloway
and the othersЕ...
