James Oliver Curwood was a popular adventure novelist in the Jack London tradition, little-remembered now by American readers but a favorite storyteller among Europeans. (The French adapted his
The Grizzly King into 1989's international success THE BEAR.) A Franco-Canadian coproduction, THE OTHER SIDE OF THE LAW brings another Curwood tale to the screen, and while it takes considerable liberties with the 1923 original, the musty, dusty melodrama of yesteryear still clings.
In 1890, northwest trapper Donald McRae (Yves Renier) returns home to find his wife fatally beaten and raped, and friend Simon McQuarrie (Jurgen Prochnow) wounded. McRae finds the assa...
Released:
1995
Rated:
PG-13
Length:
95 mins