History Film / BrokenTrail

* FairForItsDay: InUniverse Tom and Print's treatment of Lung Hay's scalp laceration. Their discussion of "how a Chinaman values his lid" would give the modern Political Correctness crowd a heart attack, but in context, it shows that they are genuinely sensitive to Chinese cultural values (at least the ones they know of) and want to make sure that he won't be left with a potentially-undignified scar.

''Broken Trail'' is a made-for-TV movie directed by Creator/WalterHill and first broadcast in 2006 on Creator/{{AMC}}. It is, to a large extent, a vehicle for Creator/RobertDuvall, who gets to play his favorite role, that of the grizzled, world-weary but honorable cowboy. The film is thus considered part of Duvall's informal [[TheWestern Western]] trilogy, whose first two instalments were ''Literature/LonesomeDove'' and the Creator/KevinCostner-directed feature movie ''Film/OpenRange''.

The story takes place in 1898. Duvall, as old rogue Print Ritter, and Thomas Haden Church, as his nephew Tom Harte, are driving Oregon ponies to Wyoming, where they are going to be sold to a horse trader working for the British army, who need mounts for the Boer War in South Africa and are paying top dollar. On their way, they come across five young Chinese women who have been sold into prostitution and are being taken to their new owner, a ruthless madam in a mining town. Ritter and Harte rescue the women from their sordid fate and decide to take them to safety.

''Broken Trail'' is a made-for-TV movie directed by Creator/WalterHill and first broadcast in 2006 on Creator/{{AMC}}. It is, to a large extent, a vehicle for Robert Duvall, who gets to play his favorite role, that of the grizzled, world-weary but honorable cowboy. The film is thus considered part of Duvall's informal [[TheWestern Western]] trilogy, whose first two instalments were ''Literature/LonesomeDove'' and the Creator/KevinCostner-directed feature movie ''Film/OpenRange''.

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''Broken Trail'' is a made-for-TV movie directed by Creator/WalterHill and first broadcast in 2006 on Creator/{{AMC}}. It is, to a large extent, a vehicle for Robert Duvall, who gets to play his favorite role, that of the grizzled, world-weary but honorable cowboy. The film is thus considered part of Duvall's informal [[TheWestern Western]] trilogy, whose first two instalments were ''Literature/LonesomeDove'' and the Kevin Costner-directed feature movie ''Film/OpenRange''.

* AnyoneCanDie
* BadassGrandpa: Print Ritter

* ChineseLanguage: Interestingly enough, several of the actresses are actually Cantonese-speakers, and had to learn Mandarin for their roles.

* PapaWolf: Prentice Ritter is a very nice guy, but don't ''ever'' [[BerserkButton threaten the people he cares about]].

The story takes place in 1898. Duvall, as old rogue Print Ritter, and Thomas Haden Church, as his nephew Tom Harte, are driving Oregon ponies to Wyoming, where they are going to be sold to the British army. On their way, they come across five young Chinese women who have been sold into prostitution and are being taken to their new owner, a ruthless madam in a mining town. Ritter and Harte rescue the women from their sordid fate and decide to take them to safety.

* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: When a drunk severely beats Lung Hay and rapes [[{{Woobie}} Number Four]], Tom leaves him crippled for life.

''Broken Trail'' is a made-for-TV movie directed by Walter Hill and first broadcast in 2006 on Creator/{{AMC}}. It is, to a large extent, a vehicle for Robert Duvall, who gets to play his favorite role, that of the grizzled, world-weary but honorable cowboy. The film is thus considered part of Duvall's informal [[TheWestern Western]] trilogy, whose first two instalments were ''Literature/LonesomeDove'' and the Kevin Costner-directed feature movie ''Film/OpenRange''.

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* FairForItsDay: Tom and Print's treatment of Lung Hay's scalp laceration. Their discussion of "how a Chinaman values his lid" would give the modern Political Correctness crowd a heart attack, but in context, it shows that they are genuinely sensitive to Chinese cultural values (at least the ones they know of) and want to make sure that he won't be left with a potentially-undignified scar.

* ChineseLanguage

* WouldHurtAChild: Ed "Big Ears" Bywaters is explicitly clear about ''exactly'' what he and his thugs intend to do to the girls. [[TheCavalry While Tom deals with the thugs]], Print [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown makes it even clearer]] that [[BadassGrandpa he will not let that happen]].

* TheSheriff: Once, in passing. He doesn't do much.

* FourIsDeath: Because the cowboys can't pronounce the women's real names, they name them "Number One" to "Number Five". When the women realize this, "Number Four" objects to being given an unlucky number for a name. One of the other women eventually accepts to be "Number Four", and she does so because she fully expects a tragic fate to befall her, which indeed it does.