Heaven's Gate (film, 1980)
Heaven's Gate was a feature film released in 1980 that is best remembered for bankrupting the movie studio that produced it.
it was an ambitious western film, with a star-studded cast, directed by Michael Cimino, a young film director whose first film, The Deer Hunter was a well reviewed money-maker.
cast
[edit | edit source]the cast included Kris Kristofferson, Christopher Walken, John Hurt, Sam Waterston, Brad Dourif, Isabelle Huppert, Joseph Cotten, Jeff Bridges, Ronnie Hawkins, Geoffrey Lewis, Richard Masur, Waldemar Kalinowski, Tom Noonan, Mickey Rourke, T Bone Burnett, Paul D'Amato, Steve Holbrook, Sam Peckinpah, Willem Dafoe.
plot
[edit | edit source]Wealthy land speculators use violence to evict the original small farmers in an isolated western town.