The question hat remains for the rest of the film is: Why?Faces of the workers reveal astonishment.The head boy (Tetsu Komai) gazes up into the night sky as the moon disappears under a cloud and suddenly darkens the setting." [This is a deliberate gag - delivered to the film audience! After African-American Morgan Freeman was cast to play the role of a white Irishman, this line was written to ""explain"" Red""s origins.He escaped from the caboose onto the tracks and returned to his small-town home, where his father Professor Henry Jones, Sr.Three people whose destinies joined briefly in a dream - but how long could it last?Although allegedly located in the wheat-growing area of World War I Texas in the early part of the 20th century, the film was shot on location in Alberta, Canada over a two-year period.Plot SynopsisThe black and white film""s title credits, with white lettering, were shot with the camera pointed down at a dry plot of earthly soil or dirt.