Broken Trail

Broken Trail
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Written by	Alan Geoffrion
Directed by	Walter Hill
Starring	Robert Duvall Thomas Haden Church Greta Scacchi Gwendoline Yeo Chris Mulkey Rusty Schwimmer Scott Cooper Donald Fong James Russo
Theme music composer	Van Dyke Parks David Mansfield
Country of origin	United States Canada
Original language	English
Production
Producers	Michael Frislev Damian Ganczewski Alan Geoffrion Walter Hill Chad Oakes Ronald Parker
Cinematography	Lloyd Ahern
Editors	Freeman Davies Phil Norden
Running time	184 minutes
Original release
Network	AMC
Release	June 25, 2006 (2006-06-25)
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Broken Trail is a 2006 Western television miniseries directed by Walter Hill and starring Robert Duvall and Thomas Haden Church.^[1] Written by Alan Geoffrion, who also wrote the novel,^[2] 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. The movie was 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).^[3]