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Saturday, August 10, 2019

Blackthorn (2011)

There is a list of people whose deaths remain "unresolved." Jimmy Hoffa. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. Amelia Earhart. People who disappeared and were never quite found.  They all must be dead by now anyway, but we have a need for closure. Such cases also provide an excellent inspiration for movies.
Sam Shepherd play James Blackthorn, an alias assumed by Butch Cassidy after his alleged death in a shoot out in Bolivia.  He has settled in the mountains and lives among the people.  The scenery in the movie, and the native weavings and clothing are spot on from my visit there in the the early 1980's.  That and the brief time filming the Bolivian Salt Flats high between the Andes ranges is definitively the best part of the movie.  The plot is on the thin side--Butch decides to go back to the United States to help with a child he has left behind, and a lot of mishaps fall into his path.  

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