Broken Trail 2006
- Action & Adventure, Drama, Western
- 1 season
- 2 episodes
- Ended
- TV-14
THEY NEVER MEANT TO BE HEROES.
The story is about an aging cowboy and his nephew who transport 500 horses from Oregon to Wyoming to sell them to the British Army. Along the way, their simple horse drive is complicated when they rescue five Chinese girls from a slave trader, saving them from a life of prostitution and indentured servitude. Compelled to do the right thing, they take the girls with them as they continue their perilous trek across the frontier, followed by a vicious gang of killers sent by the whorehouse madam who originally paid for the girls. Broken Trail weaves together two historical events: the British buying horses in the American West in the late 19th century and Chinese women being transported from the West Coast to the interior to serve as prostitutes.
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Earnest, grave, classical in form and resolved.
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- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- resolvedopen-ended
- character-ledplot-driven
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Cast
- Robert DuvallPrentice Ritter
- Thomas Haden ChurchTom Harte
- Greta ScacchiNola Johns
- Chris MulkeyBig Ears
- Rusty SchwimmerBig Rump Kate
- Gwendoline YeoSun Foy 'aka' #3
- Valerie TianGing Wa 'aka' #5
- Olivia ChengYe Fung 'aka' #4
- Jadyn WongGhee Moon 'aka' #1
- Donald FongLung Hay
Crew
- Lloyd Ahern IIDirector of Photography
- David MansfieldOriginal Music Composer
- Van Dyke ParksOriginal Music Composer
- Freeman A. DaviesEditor
- Phil NordenEditor
- Walter HillProducer
- Damian GanczewskiProducer
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Seasons
- Miniseries2 eps · 2006
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