The Story
One-Eyed Horse is the tragic story of two men who cannot escape an entangled past, and the innocent lives destroyed while one pursues a deadly vendetta.
It is the autumn of 1887, Hadley, Missouri.
Justin Gatewood (Mark Redfield), a hard, bitter man, has been newly released from federal prison after serving a five year sentence for the attempted murder of an old enemy, William Curry (Mike Hagen).
Twenty-four years before, during the Civil War, Curry, then a captain in the Union Army, forced marched a ragged group of Confederate prisoners, Gatewood and his younger brother among them. In the bitter winter weather, Gatewood experienced the horror of leaving his wounded brother behind to die, and has forever held Curry accountable.
Having attempted to kill him once, and now a free man, Gatewood returns to the town in which both men have thriving, prosperous businesses. For the gentle and peace-loving Curry, it is a horse ranch. For Gatewood, a freight company.
Life in Hadley changed while Gatewood was in prison. Upon his return, he marvels that his beautiful daughter Helen (Jennifer Rouse) has single-handedly grown the Gatewood Freight Company into a wealthy concern. Helen, now a strong-minded, adult woman, demands that her father never falter again, and makes him promise that he will stand by her side, and leave all thoughts of the past behind.
William Curry, having finally achieved a separate peace long after the war, has a willful but loving daughter of his own, named Kate (Kelly Potchak). Upon learning that Gatewood has returned, Curry’s first priority is the safety and future of his only daughter.
Torn between his love of his daughter Helen and his promise to her, and his consuming, obsessive hatred for Curry, Gatewood methodically hatches a plan to trap his long-time adversary, and finally kill him. In the process, the quiet town of Hadley, long under a new order of peace and prosperity, is ripped asunder, as are the relationships of its inhabitants, but most tragically, the two men’s daughters.
Written and directed by Wayne Shipley, One-Eyed Horse is by turns a tragic and a classic tale of the old west, told with drama, action and adventure.
Copyright 2008 OEH Productions. All Rights Reserved.
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