Guy Vanderhaeghe
Director
The Englishman's Boy (2008)
Mini-series
Haunting Film recalls a tragic journey that culminates in one of the most brutal historical events in Canadian history - the Cypress Hills Massacre
Released March 2, 2008
Episode 87 min
None+
Keywords: tmdb.miniseries, tmdb.historical, mdblist.imdb-tv-mini-series, imdb.hollywood, imdb.1920s, imdb.tv-mini-series, imdb.wild-west + 24 more, imdb.indian, imdb.iconoclast, imdb.historical-revisionism, imdb.anti-hero, imdb.white-horse, imdb.tragic-ending, imdb.offscreen-rape, imdb.nude-horseback-riding, imdb.native-american, imdb.movie-star, imdb.massacre, imdb.male-rear-nudity, imdb.male-nudity, imdb.horse-killed, imdb.genocide, imdb.film-within-a-film, imdb.female-rear-nudity, imdb.female-nudity, imdb.burned-alive, imdb.rear-nudity, imdb.anti-western, imdb.1870s, imdb.silent-movie-star, imdb.based-on-novel
Production Companies: CBC
Network: CBC Television
S1E1 - Part One
In 1873, a young drifter, the "Englishman's boy" joins a group of wolf hunters led by the brutal Hardwick on the trail of horse thieves. In 1920s Hollywood, writer Harry Vincent is engaged by movie mogul Damon Ira Chance to track down Shorty McAdoo, an old-time Western actor whose story will be the basis of the producer's new film.
March 2, 2008, midnight
S1E2 - Part Two
Hardwick provokes his posse into the brutal Cypress Hills massacre. The Boy survives but is tortured by what he has seen. Old-time Western actor Shorty McAdoo is betrayed by both movie mogul Chance and Hollywood writer Vincent, and is driven to seek revenge.
March 9, 2008, midnight
CBC Television
87 min/ep
174 min
March 2, 2008
March 9, 2008, midnight
Ended
NR
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