Heartland (film)

In 1910 Wyoming, a widow and her seven-year old daughter travel by train to two great unknowns-a strange land and life in a remote frontier with a man they never met. [3] [4]

Set in southwestern Wyoming, where Stewart homesteaded, the movie was filmed in central Montana. [5]

The soundtrack features New Orleans clarinetist George Lewis playing the hymn "What a Friend We Have in Jesus." [6]

In 1980, the film was featured as a "Buried Treasure" (a film that received little attention during its initial run) [7] by film critics Roger Ebert and Gene Siskel on an episode of the TV show, Sneak Previews, (the latter put the film as one of the best films of 1981) [8]

• Rip Torn as Clyde Stewart
• Conchata Ferrell as Elinore Randall Stewart
• Barry Primus as Jack
• Megan Folsom as Jerrine
• Lilia Skala as Mrs. Landauer
• Amy Wright as Clara Jane
• Jerry Hardin as Cattlebuyer
• Mary Boylan as Ma Gillis
• Jeff Boschee as Land Office Agent #1
• Robert Overholzer as Land Office Agent #2
• Bob Sirucek as Dan Byrd
• Marvin Berg as Justice of the Peace
• Gary Voldseth as Cowboy
• Mike Robertson as Cowboy
• Doug Johnson as Cowboy

In 1980, the film shared the Golden Bear award for Best Film at the 30th Berlin International Film Festival,[9] and 1981 Top Ten Films from National Board of Review along with Chariots of Fire and Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark.

• Elinore Pruitt Stewart Homestead, Wyoming, listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places
• American Midwest
• Days of Heaven, the 1978 Terrence Malick film similar in content

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• Heartland at AllMovie