Legends of the Fall
Director: Edward Zwick
Genre: War film, Romantic drama, Film adaptation, Romance Film, Period piece, Western, Family Drama, Drama
Year: 1994
Country: United States of America
Language: English Language
Starring: Brad Pitt, Anthony Hopkins, Henry Thomas, Aidan Quinn, Julia Ormond, Karina Lombard, Gordon Tootoosis, Bart the Bear, Tantoo Cardinal, Christina Pickles, Robert Wisden, Kenneth Welsh, John Novak
Legends of the Fall is a 1994 epic drama film based on the 1979 novella of the same title by Jim Harrison. It was directed by Edward Zwick and stars Brad Pitt, Anthony Hopkins and Aidan Quinn. The film was nominated for the Academy Awards for Best Cinematography, Best Art Direction (Lilly Kilvert, Dorree Cooper), and Best Sound (Paul Massey, David E. Campbell, Chris David and Douglas Ganton), and won the category for Best Cinematography.
The film's timeframe spans the decade before World War I through the Prohibition era, and into the 1930s, ending with a brief scene set in 1963. The film centers on the Ludlow family of Montana, including veteran of the Indian Wars, Colonel Ludlow, his sons, Alfred, Tristan, and Samuel, and object of the brothers' love, Susannah.
Both the film and the book contain occasional Cornish language terms, the Ludlow family being a Cornish emigrant family.
Sick of the betrayals the United States government has perpetrated on the Native Americans, Colonel William Ludlow (Anthony Hopkins) retires to a remote part of Montana with One Stab, a Cree friend, where they build a ranch. Accompanying them are hired hand Decker, Decker's Cree wife Pet and their
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