In this moody black and white drama, very much in the mode of the American "western," but with its own film noir characteristics, a whole town is heaved out of its doldrums when a pair of mysterious strangers come visiting. In the beginning of the film, Angel is traveling with his friend Max on a ship to Honeyfield, a town on the coast of Australia. He is coming home to die. Instead, he dies on board the ship, willing his boots to Angel, and an unopened package to someone called "The Dead Man," in Honeyfield. Also on the ship is a man named Tatts, a far less pleasant personality. When Angel gets off to head into Honeyfield, Tatts decides to follow along unseen. The package, Angel was told, contains something its intended recipient has been looking for without knowing it. On finding the recipient, a mean-spirited old man who is more or less the boss and owner of the town, he learns that the package contains opium.

Rancho Notorious
1952
6.5/10

Eleanor the Great
2025
6.9/10

The Color of Friendship
2000
6.7/10

Return
2011
6.4/10

I Believe in Unicorns
2015
6.6/10

The Locket
1946
6.3/10

Don't Come Knocking
2005
6.2/10

How Sarah Got Her Wings
2015
5.9/10

Where the Red Fern Grows
2003
6.6/10

Won't Back Down
2012
6.1/10

Forty Guns
1957
6.6/10

Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius
2004
5.9/10

Hungry Hearts
2015
6.5/10

My Neighbor Adolf
2022
6.5/10

The Christmas Shoes
2002
6.8/10

Little Lord Fauntleroy
1980
7.3/10

Too Late Blues
1961
6.4/10

American Underdog
2021
7.1/10

While the City Sleeps
1956
6.9/10

Birth of the Dragon
2017
5.8/10
Alex in Wonder
2001
4.2/10