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Heartland (film)
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Wikipedia article
'Heartland' is a 1979 American film, directed by Richard Pearce,[https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/77598/heartland Turner Classic Movies] starring Rip Torn and Conchata Ferrell.[https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/heartland-1981 Heartland Movie Review & Film Summary (1981)-Roger Ebert.com] The film is a stark depiction of early homestead life in the American West. It is based on a memoir by Elinore Pruitt Stewart, titled 'Letters of a Woman Homesteader' (1914).[https://www.willowandthatch.com/heartland-1979-edwardian-frontier-period-drama-review/ 5 Reasons to Watch the Movie HeartlandWillow and Thatch]
Plot
In 1910 Wyoming, a widow and her seven-year old daughter travel by train to two great unknowns-a strange land and life in a remote frontier with a man they never met.[http://henstoothvideo.com/drama/ Hen's Tooth Video][https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOVgsOXJg_I Heartland Trailer 1981-Video Detective on YouTube]
Production
Set in southwestern Wyoming, where Stewart homesteaded, the movie was filmed in central Montana.
The soundtrack features New Orleans clarinetist George Lewis playing the hymn "What a Friend We Have in Jesus."[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9_YvjLgOGY What a Friend We Have in Jesus by George Lewis-Topic on YouTube]
Reception
In 1980, the film was featured as a "Buried Treasure" (a film that received little attention during its initial run) [http://edgecenterarts.blogspot.com/2017/01/heartland-is-january-film-classic-in.html Edge Center for the Arts: Heartland is the January Film Classic in Bigfork] by film critics Roger Ebert and Gene Siskel on an episode of the TV show, 'Sneak Previews,' (the latter put the film as one of the best films of 1981).
Cast
* Rip Torn as Clyde Stewart
* Conchata Ferrell as Elinore Randall Stewart
* Barry Primus as Jack
* Megan Folsom as Jerrine
* Lilia Skala as Mrs. Landauer
* Amy Wright as Clara Jane
* Jerry Hardin as Cattlebuyer
* Mary Boylan as Ma Gillis
* Jeff Boschee as Land Office Agent #1
* Robert Overholzer as Land Office Agent #2
* Bob Sirucek as Dan Byrd
* Marvin Berg as Justice of the Peace
* Gary Voldseth as Cowboy
* Mike Robertson as Cowboy
* Doug Johnson as Cowboy
Awards
In 1980, the film shared the Golden Bear award for Best Film at the 30th Berlin International Film Festival, and one year later on the Top Ten Films from National Board of Review alongside cinematic heavyweights like Academy Award for Best Picture winner 'Chariots of Fire' and the Steven Spielberg blockbuster 'Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark'.
See also
* Elinore Pruitt Stewart Homestead, Wyoming, listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places
* American Midwest
*'Days of Heaven', the 1978 Terrence Malick film similar in content
References
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