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REEL ADVENTURES: and Bad Guys to , Brooks and Hanna Th e land, broken by the unique geography of country, provides the perfect . scenery for the moody (), the dangerous (Texas Rangers) and the rollicking (Knockaround Guys). Th ere’s plenty of here, too, and Th e Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford. Th e Assassination of Jesse James by the 10 Lake Coward Robert Ford (2007) puts Louise Banff in the lead role in the retelling of the in- Stoney Morley Reserve 1A famous outlaw’s last days, and Casey Canmore Seebe Affl eck in the role of his killer. 1 Brokeback Mountain (2005) tells the poignant story of love between two ranch 1 BassanoBassano hands and of how aff ects their lives over Siksika Nation 873 544 the years. and the late MillicentMillicent star. Knockaround Guys (2001) is a comedy

873 about the misadventures of sons of mob- km 10 20 30 535 mi sters sent on an errand to a small town. RainierRainier 10 20 Barry Pepper stars with Vin Diesel and Th ere’s an imposing size to the country east of Film Location . Calgary, a swatch of broad plain under a big Texas Rangers (2001) tells the story how Drive-by Film Location sky that needs only the silhouette of horse and Leander McNelly (Dylan McDermott) rider to conjure up images of bold cinematic Photo Opportunity shaped the legendary lawmen from a westerns. So choose your hat colour, black or bunch of post-Civil-War ne’er-do-wells. It white, and let’s ride the sage of the silver screen Walk or Hike Experience also starts , Randy Travis and to a place where bullets, broncos and bravado Robert Patrick. hold sway. . Museum Unforgiven (1991) is ’s dark of a retired gunfi ghter who takes on one last assignment. With Eastwood directing and playing the lead role, the movie won the Oscar for best picture. Also starring are and .

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We’ll be heading east out of Calgary on Heritage Park, Calgary the Trans- Highway for about 25 kilometres before turning north and east on Highway 9 toward Drumheller, home to the Royal Tyrrell Museum and sur- rounded by its famous dinosaur badlands. It’s easy to see why Eastwood, who fl ew over the area in 1991 while scoping scenes FindingBrokeback.com for Unforgiven, chose this area for much of the fi lm’s backdrop. Siesta Motel, Beiseke Site of Twist Ranch, r Courtesy www. Beiseker – Brokeback Mountain – Brokeback Mountain ack.com Before Drumheller, where Highway FindingBrokeb Courtesy www. 9 turns east at Highway 72, sits Beiseker private property, so permission must be and a touch of Brokeback Mountain obtained before entering . (2005). (Health Ledger) Rockyford lived in his here, visited by his daughter Alma. To fi nd the spot, take First Th ere’s plenty more Avenue just under a kilometre to the town Brokeback Mountain in dump and turn right at the dump sign for the tiny community of

300 metres; the site is surrounded by a Rockyford. From Beiseker, continue east Courtesy www.FindingBrokeback.com Courtesy white fence. on Highway 9 about 19 km then south on Highway 21. In town you’ll fi nd JT’s At the intersection of the two highways is CIBC Bank, Rockyford Bar where the phone booth was located; the Siesta Motel; the exterior was used in – Brokeback Mountain the Childress Dancehall façade and the the fi lm. If you have time, take Highway 72 Riverton Post Offi ce at Main and First west 6.6 km to Range Road 264, turn south Avenue. and go 3.2 km to Township Road 280. It’s where Ennis worked on the paving crew. Across from the Post Offi ce is a CIBC Bank, used as the exterior of the dancehall East of town, 6.5 km along Highway 72, where the Twists and the Malones spend is the Twist Ranch, home of ’s an evening and where Jack sits outside parents, visited by Ennis after Jack’s death. with Randall. Turn south on Range Road 252 at the Grande Ole West Villa Ranch sign for 1.6 Here, too, is the Rockyford km and you’ll fi nd the abandoned ranch Outside Beiseker town dump Grounds, used in the movie for both the house on the left side of the road. Th is is – Brokeback Mountain Electra and Childress , and the parking spot where Jack and Lureen made 2 Courtesy www .FindingBrokeback.com out in the car. B

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A Alberta Courtesy Travel At the intersection, go east on Highway 9 for about 45 km to Drumheller. , East Coulee? Th e road to Drumheller and beyond is also Unforgiven territory, a fi lm . that also won Oscars for best direc- tor (Eastwood), best supporting actor () and best editing. More importantly for Alberta, Unforgiven is credited with reviving the province as a prime movie location, and set the B stage, so to speak, for later fi lms such Royal Tyrrell Museum Museum Courtesy RoyalTyrrell Parks, Recre- /Alberta Tourism, ation and Culture as Legends of the Fall, Brokeback Mountain and RV, ending a dry spell that set in after Little Big Man and Superman in the . UNFORGIVEN

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C Alberta Courtesy Travel 3 About 17 kms before you reach Drumheller – and still on Highway 9 – is Horseshoe in the Drumheller Valley; next to the valley is the location of Morgan Freeman’s shack in Unforgiven. Parts of Superman were also fi lmed in the canyon. Th e area has doubled for several world locales, primarily the Middle East. It also served as backdrop for a Shanghai Noon (1999) scene with , who plays Horseshoe Canyon – Unforgiven, Superman a Chinese man travelling to the Wild West and a luckless who plays a Courtesy Drumheller Cham of Commerce ber Knockaround train robber, both trying to rescue a kid- Guys napped princess. Th e pair take on a Chinese traitor and his boss. Drumheller In Drumheller, leave the make-believe for a moment, and step back millions of years to the real-life world of the at the Royal Tyrrell Museum, a world-class exhi- bition and research facility. Devoted entirely KNOCKAROUND GUYS to paleontology, it displays more than 200 di- “Knockaround Guys” Copyright MMII, New Line Productions, Inc. nosaur specimens, video theatres and hands- All Rights Reserved. Top Two Photos by Michael Ginsberg. Third photo by Takashi Seida on scientifi c experiments. Th e museum is lo- Photos appear courtesy of New Line Productions, Inc. cated six kilometres west of Drumheller on Rat Race, fi lmed in the North (Highway 838). Brad Greentree Area of Drumheller

Pitt and Angelina Jolie visited the museum Courtesy Jerry Brett/ OTHER MOVIES FILMED NEAR Town of Drumheller DRUMHELLER with their children Maddox and Zahara dur- Dreamkeeper (2003) ing the fi lming of Jesse James. Ararat (2001) Drumheller Golf Course provided the Knockaround Guys (2001) setting for Where the Dinosaurs Roam, Rat Race (2001) while provided Th e Matthew Shepard Story the backdrop for Roughing It, a TV movie (2001) about a teenaged Mark Twain who travels Th e Hitcher II (2001) to the American West during the “Gold Children of Fortune (2000) Rush“ days. Rat Race with Cuba Gooding Train positioning for Shanghai Noon (1999) Jr. has cars fl ying in the Greentree area Shanghai Wild America (1996) Noon, in of Drumheller. Th is 2001 movie starring Drumheller Unforgiven (1991) Courtesy Jerry Brett Whoopi Goldberg and Seth Green features a Superman (1977) /Town of Drumheller race for money set up by a Las Vegas casino magnate. 1

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Drumheller Detail 3 1 Drumheller Golf Course Noon 2 Royal Tyrrell Museum and Shanghai Roughing It shoot at at Midland Provincial Park Midland Pro Roughing It shoot vincial Park 3 Greentree Area vincial Park Courtesy Jerry Brett/Town of Drumheller Courtesy Jerry Brett/Town of Drumheller Midland Pro 4 Tow n of Drumheller Courtesy Jerry Brett/ Short Side Trips Drumheller Area Map from Drumheller: 1 El Coyote Bar 2 Last Chance Saloon 1 If you’re thirsty, take a short drive 1 3 Dino Sapien shoot site, from Drumheller to Nacmine on East Coulee Highway 838, where you’ll fi nd El Coyote 4 Ararat shoot site, Bar. Th is bar was converted into a East Coulee near river Mexican bar for Dead Bang (1989), a 5 Brokeback Mountain story of a cop gunned down on Christmas shoot site, near Dorothy Eve, starring Don Johnson. Th e town was 2 also featured in Th e Hitcher II: I’ve Been Waiting (2003), a spooky confrontation For More Information between a troubled cop, his girlfriend and www.dinosaurvalley.com a maniacal hitchhiker played by Jake Busey. 3 4 2 Another place to quench your thirst is in Wayne (off Highway 570), where you’ll fi nd the Last Chance Saloon & 570 Hotel, which has also served as a location for many fi lms as well as commercials for Dorothy Tilley Hats and Jaguar. 848 5 Just down the road on Highway 570, 3 Fortune Shoot you’ll fi nd East Coulee, which served Children of as a location for Dino Sapien (2007), an action adventure TV series. Also fi lmed Courtesy Jerry Brett/Town of Drumheller erta in East Coulee were Children of Fortune (2000) with James Brolin, about a navy detective who is assigned to investigate Last Chance Saloo the murder of a sailor’s girlfriend; and You Courtesy Travel Alb n, Wayne Know My Name with Sam Elliott, who is fi lm director-producer in this fact-based biography. Here, you can also tour the Atlas Coal Mine . National Historic Site, one of the most complete coal mining museums in Canada. You can take a mine tour, hear fascinating stories, climb the last wooden Name cast tipple in Canada or ride in a coal car, all You Know My with the assistance of an experienced members guide, right in the heart of the Badlands. Courtesy Jerry Brett/Town of Drumheller About seven km east of East Coulee, fi lmed at East 4 Dino Sapien, close to the river was the site for Coulee Atom Egoyan’s Ararat (2002) about the Courtesy Jerry Brett/ Town of Drumheller Armenian genocide claims between 1915 and 1918. Continuing down the road on Highway 5 570 towards Dorothy, turn south on Highway 848, cross a yellow bridge, and 500 metres on the west side of the road is the Brokeback Mountain fl ashback scene Ararat cast members in which Ennis remembers seeing the body Ennis’ fl in the ditch. ashback scene, Courtesy J near erry Brett/Tow Dorothy – Brokeback n of Drumheller Mountain Courtesy www .FindingBrokeback.com 5 Drumheller to Hanna

MOVIES FILMED NEARBY From Drumheller, staying on Highway 9 DELIA and heading north, just before the high- Knockaround Guys (2001) way turns east, take the north extension ROWLEY (Highway 56) to ghost town Rowley, Bye Bye Blues (1988) where Bye Bye Blues (1988), a story about HANNA a war time wife and mother who joins a local dance band to provide for her family Wild America (1996) was fi lmed. At that time residents erected Nickelback Why Shoot the Teacher (1976) Courtesy Hanna Herald a large billboard, “Rowleywood” on a hill overlooking the highway. Back on Highway 9 heading east, a short drive south on Highway 851 takes you to Delia and locations for the 2001 fi lm Knockaround Guys. Again on Highway 9, about 40 km east is Hanna, hometown of the rock group Nickelback. Th e band returned here to fi lm 10 Lake the video of its song Photograph. Th ose fa- Louise Former Hanna high school, Banff miliar with the song can fi nd several of the Hanna – Nickelback Stoney Morley Reserve Canmore locales in the video, including the former Photograph Video Seebe Courtesy Laurie Armstrong Hanna high school. Hockey Hall of Famer Lanny McDonald started his hockey career in Hanna . 1 BassanoBassano Th e Depression-era tale Why Shoot Th e

873 Teacher was fi lmed here in 1977, with Bud 544 MillicentMillicent Cort and Samantha Eggar.

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km 10 20 30 From Hanna, we’ll head south on Highway mi 535 10 20 RainierRainier 36 to Brooks for a ride with the Texas Rangers (2001). Texas Rangers had star power, with Dylan McDermott, Randy Travis, , Tom Skerritt, Artifacts Robert Patrick and Alfred Molina. Th e Rowley Yesteryear Brooks area fi lled in for 1875 Texas in this Museum, Rowley erta 2001 story of the origins of the famous Courtesy Travel Alb lawmen. In Brooks, you can stay at the Heritage Inn and Convention Centre, which had a room specifi cally re-designed for Clint Eastwood during the fi lming of Unforgiven (1994). Morgan Freeman, Eastwood’s co-star, also stayed here. Next door at the Heritage Inn and Suites, took a room while fi lm- ing RV; there is an autographed picture of Williams in the lobby. At 119 – 15th Avenue West, you’ll fi nd another favourite

6 eating stop for Robin Williams: O’Shea’s (once called Egan’s Restaurant & Irish Ale MOVIES FILMED IN THE REGION House). BADLANDS Brooks Hospital lays claim to having had Wild Horse Hank (1978) Clint Eastwood as a patient. Th e actor had (Dinosaur Provincial Park) a minor injury while fi lming Unforgiven; BROOKS he was treated by Dr. Lyle Oberg, who later RV (2006)

berta served as Alberta’s fi nance minister. Oberg Texas Rangers (2001) was later invited to the Unforgiven set. A Simple Wish/Fairy Godmother Dinosaur Pro (1996) Brooks Detail !VENUE7EST Visitor Stationvincial Park, Courtesy Travel Al 3 1 Heritage Inn & !VENUE7EST Two Brothers, A Girl and A Gun 2 (1992) Convention 1 3TREETWEST Centre 1 Unforgiven (1991) 2 Heritage Inn 542 & Suites #ASSILS2OAD%AST 3 O’Sheas 873 two hours east of Calgary, but in a diff erent 4 Brooks Hospital ND!VENUE% AST 4 world. If you’ve got time to cast about, the 873 4O,AKE.EWELL area’s lakes teem with trout. Lake Newell, AND+INBROOK)SLAND 0ROVINCIAL0ARK located south of Brooks on Highway 873, features Kinbrook Island Provincial

Park. Th e lake is a haven for migrating Courtesy Jackie Motokado-Bryant Jackie Courtesy birds, watchable from three sanctuaries. V Lake Going along Highway 873 will lead you to Louise Prairie Oasis, Rainier – R the intersection of Highway 535, where Banff Stoney Morley at Rainier, you can take a page from the Reserve Munro-Gornicke RV guidebook and stop Canmore Seebe Sidetrips from Brooks Courtesy Palliser Economic Partnership for fuel at the Prairie Oasis . Lake Newell If you’re up for more dinosaur hunting, Brooks is slightly southwest of Dinosaur Brooks to Calgary Provincial Park. North on Highway 873 is the recommended route to this breath- Highway 535 crosses Highway 36, which intersects with the Trans-Canada Highway. BassanoBassano taking land of hoodoos set amid prairie grasses in what truly is the Alberta bad- Th e Trans-Canada Highway takes you 873 1 lands. Enjoy interpretive bus tours and back to Calgary. About 40 km down the MillicentMillicent hikes as you scope out the spectacular road is Bassano, home of the Prairie badlands scenery, fossils and wildlife. Schooner Hotel, one of the locations for 1 Knockaround Guys. At Brooks, a nudge south of the Trans- From Bassano your drive back to Calgary 873 Canada Highway (Highway #1), you’re just is about 140 km on Highway #1. 535 RainierRainier km 10 20 30 mi 10 20 IT’S A WRAP

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