Dead Man's Burden Page #2

Synopsis: A western set on the New Mexico frontier a few years after the Civil War and centered on a struggling young family and the mining company who wants to buy their land.
Genre: Drama, Western
Director(s): Jared Moshe
Production: Cinedigm
  1 win & 2 nominations.
 
IMDB:
5.5
Metacritic:
76
Rotten Tomatoes:
71%
NOT RATED
Year:
2012
93 min
£29,634
Website
49 Views


Is that a fact?

I'm not my father, Mr. Lane.

And you certainly are not.

I do imagine you

have an asking price.

Mr. Lane, you're paying

respects to my father.

Business will be conducted

at the proper time.

I appreciate your support

in this [inaudible].

(Noise)

Lady said her goodbyes.

Well, you let her

know I'll be back

in a month's time

with a bill of sale.

Well, I do think Martha aims

to be done with this place,

a might bit sooner than that.

[Background Music]

Tell me, Mr. Kirkland,

you ever traveled

to Morris, Kansas?

I may have ridden through.

Well, I hear it

used to be beautiful,

especially by firelight.

It'll be a pleasure

doing business with you.

(Noise & Music)

(Noise)

Damn mule got in

the locoweed again.

I have to put it down.

(Noise)

It needed to be done.

(Noise)

Lane ain't by today.

He'll come.

A few weeks is what he said.

You got to eat.

I like how much

you like my food.

(Noise)

We got enough.

(Noise)

These all the food we'll

have in San Francisco?

Well, I heard [inaudible]

took another herd up to Kansas.

It could be.

Cows are no better

than crops.

We're opening a hotel.

I ain't exactly

the hotel type.

We weren't exactly

the farming type either.

It'll be a grand place.

Grandness in San Francisco

with large green drinks,

a polished wood entrance,

children running all through.

Lane's coming.

(Noise)

That ain't Lane.

(Horse Galloping)

(Footsteps)

Do we have to?

Stay in the house.

(Noise)

This McCurry place?

Who's asking?

I ain't angling for a fight.

Folks don't ride out this

way lest they're angling

for something.

[Horse Snorting]

Be obliged if I

could water my horses.

Been riding hard this last day.

(Noise)

Wrong way?

(Noise)

Got business with

the McCurrys.

Ain't you heard?

Joe McCurry is dead.

I heard, I heard

about James and Billy.

Dead too.

Dead? No they ain't.

See for yourself.

(Noise)

Stranger?

All of them.

If you want to water

your horses, be on your way.

It's fine by me.

(Silence)

(Noise)

Why is he asking

about my family?

Stay inside, he'll

be gone soon.

Maybe you ask him

how he knows Billy.

[Background Music]

Thank you kindly.

I was wondering-- Martha?

(Music)

1 Oh, how'd you do

so much growing?

It's Wade, your brother.

Best ride on out of

here right now, mister.

It's been a while, I know.

But it's me, sure as a gun.

Wade is dead.

Killed by a horse 10 years

past on his way to war.

(Music)

You still got that

scar from the fever?

One right inside your arm?

The trip is supposed

to take four days,

but I had to ride six straight

on account of the weather.

they never would have

tried to bleed you.

(Music)

Wade.

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Jared Moshe

Jared Moshe is an American-born director, screenwriter and producer of independent films. He wrote and directed the feature Westerns Dead Man's Burden (2012) and The Ballad of Lefty Brown (2017). He has also produced the features Destricted (2006), Kurt Cobain: About a Son (2006), Low and Behold (2007), Beautiful Losers (2008), Corman's World: Exploits of a Hollywood Rebel (2011), and Silver Tongues (2011). more…

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