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* 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.
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* 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 lid", 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.
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* ChangedMyMindKid: One of the ''villains'' plays with this trope in the climax, running away the instant the Bywaters gang is at a disadvantage but then returning to help his comrades several seconds later, only to make a failed attempt to flee again once all of his companions are dead.
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* DeadlyDistantFinale: The epilogue references the deaths of Prent, Nola, and the two youngest Chinese Girls. The first two die of natural causes, while the others die in the UsefulNotes/CulturalRevolution (although since that happens almost seventy years after the movie's events, they still lived long and fulfilling lives).
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* OutOfFocus: Novice cowhand Heck is doing some chores offscreen for quite a bit of the three-hour miniseries and probably has less than ten minutes' worth of dialogue (although he makes the most of a lot of the scenes he does have).
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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 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''.
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''Broken Trail'' is a made-for-TV movie movie/miniseries 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''.
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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.
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The story takes place in 1898. Duvall, as old rogue Print Ritter, and Thomas Haden Church, Creator/ThomasHadenChurch, 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.
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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 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, 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''.
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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''.
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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 Creator/KevinCostner-directed feature movie ''Film/OpenRange''.
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* ChineseLanguage: Interestingly enough, several of the actresses are actually Cantonese-speakers, and had to learn Mandarin for their roles.
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* PapaWolf: Prentice Ritter is a very nice guy, but don't ''ever'' [[BerserkButton threaten the people he cares about]].
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* PapaWolf: Prentice Ritter is a very nice guy, but don't ''ever'' ''[[BewareTheNiceOnes ever]]'' [[BerserkButton threaten the people he cares about]].
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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.
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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.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.
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* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: When a drunk severely beats Lung Hay and rapes [[{{Woobie}} Number Four]], Tom leaves him crippled for life.
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* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: When a drunk severely beats Lung Hay and rapes [[{{Woobie}} Number Four]], Tom leaves him crippled for life. Print later beats the BigBad to death [[CruelAndUnusualDeath with a hammer]] for threatening to rape Nola (again) and the girls.
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* AbhorrentAdmirer: Bywaters has a thing for Nola, but not the kind of thing that might make her a MoralityPet. She's scarred physically and emotionally from his past abuses.
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* SoftSpokenSadist: Bywaters is a psychotic murderer, rapist, and thief who never raises his voice.
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''Broken Trail'' is a made-for-TV movie directed by Walter Hill 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''.
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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.
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* 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.
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* CoolOldGuy: Print. Come on, he's Robert Duvall, after all.
* MadeOfIron: Bywaters and his thugs beat Prentice Ritter savagely and are about to graduate from beating to ColdBloodedTorture, while not being shy about [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil what they plan to do to the girls]]. As soon as Tom gets their attention, Print picks up a blacksmith's hammer and turns Bywaters' skull inside-out with it.
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* 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]].
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* 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 [[PapaWolf he will not let that happen]].
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* BerserkButton: Neither Tom nor his Uncle Print take kindly to men who sexually assault women of any race.
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* 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.
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* 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 [[DeathSeeker she fully expects a tragic fate to befall her, her]], which indeed it does.
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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.
** For that matter, Tom always addresses him as "Mister Lung Hay." It's clear that Lung is not used to being respectfully addressed by a white man.
** For that matter, Tom always addresses him as "Mister Lung Hay." It's clear that Lung is not used to being respectfully addressed by a white man.
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* {{Fingore}}: Tom blows a rapist's thumbs off with his Colt Peacemaker.
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* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: When a drunk severely beats Lung Hay and rapes [[{{Woobie}} Number Four]], Tom leaves him crippled for life.
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''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''.
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.
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* AnyoneCanDie
* BadassGrandpa: Print Ritter
* BigDamnHeroes: A couple times. Thomas Church is in all of them, and on one occasion shoots off a man's thumbs.
* CattleDrive: With horses rather than cattle, but apart from that the trope is played straight.
* ChineseLanguage
* ChineseLaunderer: Lung Hay.
* {{Cowboy}}: Ritter and Harte.
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:Number Four gets raped once too many.]]
* FatBastard: "Big Rump" Kate provides a female example. Dear God, does she ever.
* 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.
* HookerWithAHeartOfGold: Nola.
** Averted by "Big Rump" Kate, the ruthless head prostitute who originally bought the Chinese girls. A Chinese local assures the heroes it would be kinder to just go ahead and slit the girls' throats rather than leave them in the same town as Kate.
* MeaningfulName: Likely unintentional. "Ritter," the main character's surname, is the German term for "knight."
* RapeAsDrama
* SceneryPorn: The camera can't get enough of the American West's wide-open vistas.
* TheSheriff: Once, in passing. He doesn't do much.
* WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue
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''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''.
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.
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!!Contains examples of:
* AnyoneCanDie
* BadassGrandpa: Print Ritter
* BigDamnHeroes: A couple times. Thomas Church is in all of them, and on one occasion shoots off a man's thumbs.
* CattleDrive: With horses rather than cattle, but apart from that the trope is played straight.
* ChineseLanguage
* ChineseLaunderer: Lung Hay.
* {{Cowboy}}: Ritter and Harte.
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:Number Four gets raped once too many.]]
* FatBastard: "Big Rump" Kate provides a female example. Dear God, does she ever.
* 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.
* HookerWithAHeartOfGold: Nola.
** Averted by "Big Rump" Kate, the ruthless head prostitute who originally bought the Chinese girls. A Chinese local assures the heroes it would be kinder to just go ahead and slit the girls' throats rather than leave them in the same town as Kate.
* MeaningfulName: Likely unintentional. "Ritter," the main character's surname, is the German term for "knight."
* RapeAsDrama
* SceneryPorn: The camera can't get enough of the American West's wide-open vistas.
* TheSheriff: Once, in passing. He doesn't do much.
* WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue
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