Purgatory (1999) on Netflix
An outlaw gang led by Blackjack Britton flees a posse into Refuge, a town where nobody carries a gun or swears. Young Sonny Dillard thinks he recognizes the townspeople.
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Plot summary
A band of outlaws under Blackjack Britton robs a bank and rides off with a posse behind it, escaping through a dust storm by way of a tunnel into a green valley. There the town of Refuge takes them in. Nobody carries a gun or swears, and when the church bell rings the residents all gather inside. Sonny Dillard, the youngest of the gang and the nephew of Cavin Guthrie, has read dime novels about gunfighters, and the faces in the town look familiar to him. He befriends Rose, a woman who turns his questions back on him. The rest of the gang settles into the saloon.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Purgatory (1999)
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Brad Fiedel, who had worked with Uli Edel before, agreed with the director that the music should support the classic Western elements and not overplay the otherworldly ones, so the audience could discover the strangeness of the town without the score telegraphing it.- Uli Edel's involvement as director convinced Sam Shepard to agree to star, as Shepard felt that, as a European, Edel would bring different ideas to the film.
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Writer Gordon Dawson, who had worked on several Westerns previously, was inspired to write a religious morality tale set in an Old West town inhabited by ghosts.
