John Hillcoat · 2005 · overland

John Hillcoat's 2005 outback Western, written by Nick Cave. In 1880s colonial Australia, Captain Stanley captures the outlaw Charlie Burns and makes him a terrible offer: ride out into the searing wilderness, find and kill his own older brother Arthur, and his younger brother will be spared the gallows. Charlie's journey into the ochre hills becomes a reckoning with blood, loyalty and the brutality of the frontier.

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   Banyon

   The dusty outback settlement where Captain Stanley jails the Burns brothers and forces on Charlie the proposition - hunt down and kill his own elder brother, or watch the younger one hang.

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   The outback

   The blistering ochre wilderness Charlie rides into alone to find Arthur, a lawless country of flies, heat and violence at the edge of the colonial world.

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   Arthur's camp

   The rocky hideout where the charismatic, murderous elder brother Arthur holds out among the hills, and where Charlie must confront the blood-bond and the bargain that will damn him either way.