Last of the Dogmen

A Montana bounty hunter is sent into the wilderness to track three escaped prisoners. Instead he sees something that puzzles him…

• Director:Tab Murphy
• Genre:Adventure / Western
• Runtime:113 minutes

Cast

Tom Berenger : Lewis Gates
Barbara Hershey : Prof. Lillian Diane Sloan
Kurtwood Smith : Sheriff Deegan
Steve Reevis : Yellow Wolf
Andrew Miller : Briggs

Tom Berenger plays a distraught but skillful bounty hunter Lewis Gates, who pursues three armed escaped convicts into Montana’s Oxbow Quadrangle, followed by his faithful companion called Zip, an Australian cattle dog. All Gates finds is a few scraps of cloth, some blood, and an old-fashioned Indian arrow. He takes the arrow to anthropologist Lillian Sloane (Barbara Hershey) who identifies it as a replica of the arrows used by Cheyenne Dog Soldiers. Gates doesn’t think it’s a replica and, after some library research, develops a long list of people who have disappeared into the Oxbow and a story of a “wild child” captured in the woods in the early 20th century. Now he’s convinced that the fugitives were killed by a tribe of Dog Soldiers, a hearty band of native Americans who had somehow escaped the 1864 Sand Creek massacre and survived for more than a hundred years secluded in the Montana Wilderness.

Gates convinces Sloane to join him in a search for the band. Just as they are preparing to return empty handed; the Dogmen surprise them, take them prisoner, and lead them back to the band’s encampment, where they must convince the reclusive band’s elders that they intend no harm. An immediate “salvation of one vs. salvation of many” crisis situation gives them the opportunity to prove their honorable intentions but also threatens to attract the attention of the outside world.

Gates and Sloane soon realize they must protect the secret of the band’s existence from the outside world, beginning with the local Sheriff Deegan (Kurtwood Smith) who is now leading a posse into the Oxbow in search of both the fugitive convicts and Gates. Read more

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