{"id":725,"date":"2009-04-11T12:33:23","date_gmt":"2009-04-11T18:33:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/?p=725"},"modified":"2014-09-06T14:57:44","modified_gmt":"2014-09-06T20:57:44","slug":"marshall-canfield-kicks-ass-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/?p=725","title":{"rendered":"Marshall Canfield kicks ass, too!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, pardner<\/em>, it turns out that what we’ve got here is a showdown. Two men, weapons drawn, all bets are off. Who will be the stronger … and who will survive?<\/em><\/p>\n

In fairness, when it comes to movies in Champaign-Urbana<\/strong>\u00a0the week of April 20<\/strong>, the guy with the famous thumb will probably lay a single-finger smackdown on these do-gooders and any other attention-seeker in sight. But that’s why C-U Blogfidential<\/strong> is here, folks, to pull up the underdogs by their bootstraps!<\/p>\n

While everybody is huddling in perfect harmony\u00a0over at the Virginia Theatre<\/strong> for Roger Ebert’s Film Festival<\/strong>, a very rare occurence will be taking place – the video release of two local movies in the same week. Now, we’ll have to stick an asterisk on RAMPAGE<\/strong> since it was originally made in Turkey<\/strong> with C-U’s own Dark Maze Studios<\/strong> providing a much belated English-language post-production job<\/a> to ready it for the West. The legitimate<\/em> local film actually comes out a few days earlier on Tuesday, April 21<\/strong>, when North American Motion Pictures<\/strong> of Woodland Hills, CA<\/strong>, releases THE SHOWDOWN<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Formerly titled SAND PRAIRIE<\/strong>, this pet project of Springfield<\/strong>\/Pekin<\/strong> author Jim Conover<\/strong> is billed as “a classic Western” and follows the adventures of square-jawed Luke Canfield (Bob Handegan<\/strong>) as he takes up marshall status in a Texas frontier town and must dole out 19th Century-style justice on a gang of horse thieves. Impressively, the production marshalled enough coin to build a Sand Prairie set from scratch in little Hopedale Township<\/strong> near the Mackinaw River<\/strong>; you can find several photos of it at the official Web site<\/a> as well as this page<\/a> on Randy Wheat’s Imagemakers<\/strong> site.<\/p>\n

CUBlog<\/strong> will bring you more information about THE SHOWDOWN<\/strong> as we get it (and Conover and North American decide to respond to our e-mail queries) so for now, dig on the original trailer below. To the best of our knowledge, THE SHOWDOWN<\/strong> will be the first indigenous production to be issued on Blu-ray<\/strong> as well as standard DVD.<\/p>\n

~ Jason Pankoke<\/p>\n

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