Lawman

Lawman (2011)

The Mountie

Après avoir retrouvé le corps d’un innocent, un gendarme solitaire de la Police Montée canadienne - un "Mountie" - arrive en ville afin d'anéantir la criminalité et la corruption. En ville, il découvre rapidement que de nombreuses activités illégales s'y déroulent. Une fois les coupables trouvés, Wade Grayling mettra tout en œuvre pour que ces derniers ne s’en sortent pas indemnes.

Date de sortie
2011-07-01
TMDB
5.2 / 10 (21)
Durée
1 h 30 min
Genres
Drame, Western
Réalisateur
Wyeth Clarkson

Distribution

Anecdotes

  • Adapté de : L'Homme de la loi

The Mountie is a 2011 Canadian Western film directed by S. Wyeth Clarkson, co-written by Clarkson, Charles Johnston, and Grant Sauvé. Though drawing on elements of Canadian northern genre fiction, the film was pitched as a neo-spaghetti Western by Clarkson to its star, Andrew Walker. Walker plays a disgraced North-West Mounted Police officer dispatched in 1894 to survey the Yukon for a new garrison, where he encounters a small group of Russian settlers in a town in desperate need of law and order. The cast includes Earl Pastko as Olaf, a Russian Orthodox priest of dubious character, Jessica Paré as Amethyst, Olaf's scarred daughter, as well as George Buza, Tony Munch, Matthew G.

Production

In an interview with CTV News, Wyeth Clarkson talked about having been drawn since childhood to Western movies, such as those by John Ford and Sergio Leone, "but always wondered why American sheriffs were depicted onscreen, while Canadian officers were not", arguing the film is educational: "Canada has this rich history and this rich history of iconographic characters that we don't see on our screens and to me that's a real loss, especially for k…

Made for a little under C$1,000,000, The Mountie received equity production funding from Telefilm Canada's Ontario office and the Harold Greenberg Fund, as well as production funding support from the Yukon Film & Sound Commission.

Of his lead Andrew Walker, Clarkson said he "just jumped off the screen for me. ... He sent me an audition tape, and Andrew just embodied what I imagined the Mountie to be. There is a fearlessness to him ... and he also was a punt return football player, so he actually is pretty tough.

As for Jessica Paré, Clarkson said he was lucky to cast her "before she caught the eye of" Mad Men creator Matthew Weiner. "I think Jessica is as close as we have to someone with the kind of transcendent beauty I needed for that part ... She's got the looks, as well as the acting chops."

Principal photography took place on a remote location west of Whitehorse, Yukon, in 2009, under the working title Red Coat Justice. The shooting location was a 45-minute drive for the cast and crew to a logging road, followed by a 30-minute hike to the set itself.

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