From Deseret News archives:
LDS Film Festival roundup
Sixth annual event features clean family entertainment
"Outlaw Trail" launched the sixth annual LDS Film Festival Jan. 17, not coincidentally the day before the popular Sundance Film Festival began. The film screened in the 700-plus seat XanGo Grand Theatre at the SCERA Center for the Arts to a nearly full house.
Dress was promoted as dressy for the opener, but to Utah cowboys that means to wear your best pair of blue jeans. At least one couple showed up in a tux and strapless gown. Neckties were scarce, particularly among film executives.
This western yarn set in the late 1940s in and around Circleville builds on the thesis that Leroy Parker, a k a Butch Cassidy, escaped the barrage of bullets in Bolivia that supposedly claimed the life of the Sundance Kid. It's believed both outlaws died in the shootout.
The Parker family still believes Cassidy made it back to the United States and peacefully lived out the rest of his life. That belief is the genesis behind the movie.
The movie has been publicly screened only one other time at the Heartland Film Festival in Indianapolis last October where it took the Crystal Heart Award. It is expected to be picked up for general distribution in the next few months.
Screenwriter David Pliler went to Circleville to drink in the Butch Cassidy atmosphere when he first began crafting the fictional script based on real characters in March 2005. The initial writing took about six weeks. Filming last year took less than a month.
Putlaw Trail
Produced by: Brad Pelo
Directed by: Ryan Little
Starring: Ryan Kelley, Arielle Kebbel, Bruce McGill
Rating: probably PG
Length: 90 minutes
E-mail: rodger@desnews.com
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