''Murder at Yellowstone City'' (formerly titled ''Murder at Emigrant Gulch'') is an American

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film directed by Richard Gray from a screenplay by Eric Belgau.

Premise

In a gold-rush boomtown that has gone bust, a prospector strikes gold - and is murdered. Sheriff Jim Ambrose (

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) assumes the killer to be a newcomer, a former slave who calls himself Cicero (

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), because "he's the only man who doesn't know what I'll do to him." But as it becomes clear that Cicero is innocent, and as the mystery of the prospector's death deepens and puts the whole town in jeopardy, the town's new minister, Thaddeus Murphy (

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) and his straight-shooting wife Alice (

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) must stand up to Sheriff Ambrose and bring the true culprit to justice.

Cast

as Cicero *

as Sheriff Jim Ambrose *

as Thaddeus Murphy *

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as Edgar Blake *

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as Jimmy Ambrose, Jr. *

as Alice Murphy *

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as Isabel Santos *

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as Robert Dunnigan *

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as Emma Dunnigan *

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as Rebecca Davies * Tanaya Beatty as Violet Running Horse *

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as Mickey O'Hare *

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as David Harding *

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as Eugenia Martin * Isabella Ruby as Josephine Wright * Danny Bohnen as Marcus O'Sullivan

Production

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began in May 2021, in

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. At the

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in June 2021, additional casting was revealed, and it was announced that production had wrapped.

Release

In April 2022, it was announced that

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acquired North American distribution rights to the film, which will be released in theaters and on VOD on June 24, 2022.

Reception

The film has a 25% rating on

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based on 20 reviews.

References

External links

* * {{Richard Gray 2022 films American Western (genre) films Films set in Montana Films shot in Montana 2020s English-language films 2020s American films