Writer-director Potsy Ponciroli does a magnificent job of creating a slow build of tension, punctuated by the occasional and stunning moment of violence. He’s adept at tending to Curry’s wounds, he punches out Curry with fast efficiency at one point, he’s lightning-fast with a gun and he sure isn’t acting like a scared farmer when he’s told there’s a trio of killers headed this way. We learn this man is named Curry (played by Scott Haze), and he claims Ketchum isn’t really a sheriff, he’s a bank robber and he WILL be coming for Curry and for the money, and if he has to kill Henry and Wyatt in the process, he’ll do it without hesitation.īy this point, we’ve come to suspect there’s more to Old Henry than meets the eye. Henry takes the man back to the farmhouse, patches up his wound - and ties him to the bed, because even though this man is wearing a badge, something doesn’t sit right.
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Save for the occasional visit from Henry’s brother-in-law Al (Trace Adkins), we get the feeling there are weeks or even months when no one comes within miles of the farm - but that changes when Henry finds the wounded fugitive in a creek bed, a satchel of cash nearby. One of them is tortured for information and then executed, while the other is shot but manages to get away.Ĭut to Nelson’s scraggly, scrawny and disheveled widower Henry working the unforgiving land of his farm, barking orders to his teenage son Wyatt (Gavin Lewis), who deeply resents his father for refusing to let him even pick up a gun and can’t wait until he’s reached the age where he can leave the closed-off old man behind and set out to see the world beyond this remote patch.
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With the gorgeous and stark grasslands of Waterford, Tennessee, standing in for 1906 Oklahoma, “Old Henry” opens with a scene worthy of Clint Eastwood Westerns such as “Pale Rider” and “Unforgiven,” as a sadistic sheriff named Ketchum (Stephen Dorff) his deputy, Dugan (Richard Speight Jr.), and his Mexican tracker Stillwell (Max Arciniega) have formed a posse and have captured two fugitives. Shout Studios presents a film written and directed by Potsy Ponciroli.