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The Grey Fox is a 1982 Canadian biographical Western film directed by Phillip Borsos and written by John Hunter. It is based on the true story of Bill Miner, an American stagecoach robber who staged his first Canadian train robbery on 10 September 1904. The film stars Richard Farnsworth as Miner.
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Bill Miner (Richard Farnsworth) is released from a United States prison in 1901 after serving 33 years for robbing stagecoaches. Unable to assimilate into a changed world, he finds inspiration in Edwin S. Porter’s The Great Train Robbery (1903) and decides to rob trains. Following a botched train robbery in Washington State, he escapes to Canada an...
The Grey Fox (1982), Phillip Borsos’ first feature film, builds on the ambivalent fascination many Canadians have for the United States. A Canadian rendition of the Western, it revolves around an outlaw who is invested with charisma and a mythical aura by the Canadians he meets. Borsos' film tells an identifiably Canadian story with a visual style ...
The Grey Fox was distributed internationally, rare for an English-Canadian film at that time, and met with modest acclaim. American critic Roger Ebert hailed it as “one of the loveliest adventures of the year” and praised Farnsworth’s “unstudied, graceful, absolutely natural” performance, while Variety called it “graceful” and “stunningly-photograp...
The first feature film from Western Canada to gain wide acclaim since Back to God’s Country (1919), The Grey Fox was a key film in the development of the Canadian film industry. Released at the end of the “tax-shelter era,” a period typified by derivative, cheaply produced B-movies designed for American consumption, the film indicated that Canadian...
Best Movie Script (John Hunter), Western Writers of America (1979) Best Canadian Film, Montréal World Film Festival (1982) Best Motion Picture, Genie Awards(1983) Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role (Jackie Burroughs), Genie Awards (1983) Best Performance by a Foreign Actor (Richard Farnsworth), Genie Awards (1983) Achievement in Directi...
In this film based on a true story, Bill Miner (Richard Farnsworth) is a fearless stagecoach robber in the days of the Wild West. After he is arrested and jailed for more than 30 years, he...
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And he gives it a certain documentary feel; “The Grey Fox” is apparently based, to some degree, on truth. That doesn’t matter half as much as that Farnsworth bases his performance on how he sees the truth of Bill Miner.
Based on the true story of William Miner (nicknamed the Gentleman Bandit), The Grey Fox won 4 Genie Awards including Best Picture and has been included on TIFF’s top 10 list of the Best Canadian Films of All Time.
Based on the true story of William Miner (nicknamed the Gentleman Bandit), The Grey Fox won 4 Genie Awards including Best Picture and has been included on TIFF’s top 10 list of the Best Canadian Films of All Time.
A mythic vision of the “peaceable kingdom” of the Canadian West, the film also offers revisionist commentary on the mythology of the Hollywood Western and its heroes while staying remarkably faithful to the source material: the film is based upon the true story of American train robber Bill Miner, who staged Canada’s first-ever train ...
