The Claim

The Claim
6.0

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Directed by: Michael Winterbottom

Overview

A prospector sells his wife and daughter to another gold miner for the rights to a gold mine. Twenty years later, the prospector is a wealthy man who owns much of the old west town named Kingdom Come. But changes are brewing and his past is coming back to haunt him. A surveyor and his crew scouts the town as a location for a new railroad line and a young woman suddenly appears in the town and is evidently the man's daughter.

The Claim

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  • John Chard (Rated: 8)

    The Casterbridge Claim.

    "Thy Kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven"

    Michael Winterbottom directs what is in essence a Western version of Thomas Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge. It's Sierra Nevada, California, 1867 and the pioneer town of Kingdom Come is thriving under...

  • Wuchak (Rated: 8)

    The beginning and end of a boom town in the Sierra Nevadas

    During the California gold rush of 1849 a desperate man establishes a boom town in the Sierra Nevadas. Eighteen years later his abandoned wife & daughter (Nastassja Kinski & Sarah Polley) ride into town and turn his life (Peter Mull...

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