Broken Trail

Broken Trail

Broken Trail is a 2006 Western television film directed by Walter Hill and starring Robert Duvall and Thomas Haden Church. Written by Alan Geoffrion, who also wrote the novel, 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. Filmed on location in Calgary, Alberta. The miniseries originally aired on American Movie Classics as its first original film. Broken Trail received 4 Emmy Awards for Outstanding Miniseries, Outstanding Casting for a Miniseries, Movie, or a Special, Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or Movie (Robert Duvall), and Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie (Thomas Haden Church).

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2006
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Tom Harte:
[after killing the man who stole from them, Harte returns to find his uncle teaching the girls English] So I went and got our horses and our money... had to stretch a fella... and you start a finishing school for Chinese girls.

Prentice Ritter:
I get rousted out of my sleep sometimes when Nature calls. I find there's something frightening 'bout that hour of the night 'cause there ain't no foolin' yourself 'bout what you done or what you hadn't done with your life.

Prentice Ritter:
Without marriage and women we'd all have been drunk, shot ourselves to death, or died of the clap.

Prentice Ritter:
A man like that ain't worth the food he eats much less the price of a decent rope.

[last lines]

Prentice Ritter:
[narration] We're all travelers in this world. From the sweet grass to the packing house. Birth 'til death. We travel between the eternities.

Big Rump Kate:
It's stupid sack of sh*t who believes he can waltz into this country with a wagon full of women and thinks he ain't yn for trouble.

Gilpin:
You kiss your mama with that mouth?

Prentice Ritter:
This deal gets more interesting by the day, I tell you.

Tom Harte:
This deal's getting less profitable by the day.

Prentice Ritter:
Never use money to measure wealth, son.

Big Rump Kate:
You boys thinkin' of gettin' in the skin trade? Well, let me set you straight. The gold I mine from this burg I don't get from diggin'. There ain't a shot of whiskey, a hand of poker, or any fella that wants to dip his wick that I don't get a cut of.

Tom Harte:
We're just passing through.

Big Rump Kate:
Whattya take for your trouble?

Gilpin:
We came here to eat and have a bit of whiskey. That's it.

Big Rump Kate:
C'mon. mister, everything has a price.

Tom Harte:
Not everything.

Nola Johns:
Most men are afraid of failure in this world. It seems like some are afraid of success.

Prentice Ritter:
We're all travelers in this world - from sweet grass to the packin' house - birth till death - we travel between the eternities.

Marshall Bill Miller:
That's a nice bunch a horses you got there. You got papers on em I suppose?

Prentice Ritter:
You got a badge I suppose?

Marshall Bill Miller:
Well, no need to get all puffed up...

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