Top cast:Sigourney Weaver,Tom Skerritt,John Hurt
Director:Léonce Perret&Jacques Roullet
Genre:Thriller
Region:Canada
Year:2003
Storyline:Who owns the property around here?Smalley: Sheehan owns all the property this side of town.Bartender: The Chinese don""t own no property.They just poach in mines.Smalley: Joe Shortreed, J.J., Bill Cubbs, myself own that whole other side of the church.Sheehan offered McCabe a room in his hotel for two bits a night and led him upstairs, as McCabe asked: "You got many chinks around here?" He was told: "You just turn over a rock.Above him in he hierarchy of jobs, the foreman urges him all the time to keep up with the belt, and bullies him.The innovative finale is an overwhelming, rhythmic, conglomerate sequence which weaves all four stories into a stirring, fast-moving and exciting climax - as the suspenseful drama begins to conclude, he cross-cutting increases in tempo and rapidity with shorter and shorter segments of each tale flowing together.His Marine battle jacket has "King Kong Brigade" patches on it, and his psychological profile approximates those of war-zone combatants.