The Duel (2016) on Netflix
In 1887, Texas Ranger David Kingston is sent to Mount Hermon to investigate murders and disappearances of Mexican citizens. Its preacher and mayor, Abraham Brant, keeps the townsfolk in fear.
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- Rotten Tomatoes32%
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Plot summary
Governor Lawrence Sullivan Ross sends Texas Ranger David Kingston to the isolated border town of Mount Hermon in 1887. Mexican citizens there have been murdered or have gone missing, and a Mexican general whose niece, Maria Calderon, is among them has threatened to invade unless she is found. Kingston conceals who he is and why he has come, letting the town take him for a drifter. Its preacher and mayor, Abraham Brant, offers him the job of sheriff, and Kingston accepts so that the position will hide his real work. The townspeople meet him with hostility. Brant is drawn to Kingston's wife, Marisol. Naomi, a prostitute treated badly in the town, offers Kingston information if he will help her leave her life there.
Cast
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Duel (2016)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- William Hurt was announced in 2014 as Governor Ross alongside Alice Braga, and was still reported as being in the cast as late as an April 2016 trailer article and a June 2016 review, but he does not appear in the finished film and goes uncredited.
- The production shot mostly at the former Florewood State Park in Greenwood, Mississippi, which was turned into an Old West frontier town for the film.
