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Heaven's Gate is a 1980 American epic Western film written and directed by Michael Cimino, starring Kris Kristofferson, Christopher Walken, John Hurt, Sam Waterston, Brad Dourif, Isabelle Huppert, Jeff Bridges, and Joseph Cotten, and loosely based on the Johnson County War.
Dec 4, 2015 · Two-and-a-half hours into Michael Cimino’s epic Western, Heaven’s Gate, a band of townsfolk bustles into a hotel room to wake up a dead-drunk federal marshal (Kris Kristofferson).
The major location for the movie, though, was east of the city of Kalispell, in Flathead County, central Montana. The town of ‘Sweetwater’ was a huge set built over the parking lot on the east shore of Two Medicine Lake , about 100 miles east of Kalispell on US Route 2 .
Heaven's Gate: Directed by Michael Cimino. With Kris Kristofferson, Christopher Walken, John Hurt, Sam Waterston. During the Johnson County War in 1890 Wyoming, a sheriff born into wealth does his best to protect immigrant farmers from rich cattle interests.
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- Adventure, Drama, Western
- Michael Cimino
- 1981-04-24
Heaven’s Gate. A breathtaking depiction of the promise and perils of America’s western expansion, Heaven’s Gate, directed by Michael Cimino, is among Hollywood’s most ambitious and unorthodox epics.
- James Averill
Jul 30, 2013 · Duration:219 mins. Cast and crew. Director:Michael Cimino. Screenwriter:Michael Cimino. Cast: Kris Kristofferson. Christopher Walken. John Hurt. Isabelle Huppert. Joseph Cotten. Jeff Bridges....
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The head of the association, the villainous Frank Canton (Sam Waterston) is telling the wealthy members that he has hired a small army of gunslingers to murder virtually all of the immigrants in Johnson County because some of them are rustling their cattle to feed their starving families.