Peter O'Toole's final role + Sun Li in drag + railroad drama = unhinged Canadian epic
A poor but feisty Chinese woman, disguised as a boy, joins the railroad crew in the Rocky Mountains to search for her long-lost father, and falls in love with the son of the railroad tycoon.
Acting
Sun Li carries the entire emotional weight flawlessly
Production
Genuinely impressive Rocky Mountain railroad recreation
Director
David Wu
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was Peter O'Toole's final film performance; he plays 'Relic,' a possibly hallucinated old-timer who may not even be real.
The film dramatizes the 1880s Chinese laborers who built the Canadian Pacific Railway, a history often erased in North American westerns.
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