The Legend of Alfred Packer

The Legend of Alfred Packer is a 1980 film by Jim Roberson from a script by Burton Raffel. It is a biopic of Alferd Packer starring Patrick Dray in the title role. The film features a score by BolivianArgentinian composer Jaime MendozaNava, though the main theme is derivative of Mason Williamss Classical Gas.

McMurphy and Pry meet in a tavern to discuss the Packer story over whiskey. She begins with the five prospectors who will become victims meeting up for the first time at a boardinghouse, where the landlady Ruth Seder tells them that Alfred Packer is the best guide in the area.The men find Packer in a small prison, and pay his bail so that he can be their guide. They join together with the larger group, but are soon split up, and they get suckered into the hospitality of a trapper Morgan and his sidekick, Weasel Farrar, who intend to rape George Noon Dratfield. ........

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