This is a low budget Canadian rough hewn western set in the early 20th century.
Up River aims to be Jeremiah Johnson without any depth of story or subtext. Star Morgan Stevens is even made to look a lot like Robert Redford.
Steven plays Jacob Taylor, a young greenhorn who has travelled up the wilderness to stake his claim for land as a homesteader. He falls foul of a local land baron who is rounding up all the land for himself by fair means or foul.
Taylor is aided by a veteran hunter and trader Bagshaw, who also lumbers Taylor with a native woman to teach her the ways of the city. It just that Taylor falls for her and then loses her when the land baron's goons burn his dwelling down.
Taylor and Bagshaw then go looking for revenge.
Up River is very much an obscure movie. It is plain meat and potatoes with a very long introduction. It could easily had been a television movie. You might as well be better off watching Dances with Wolves, Jeremiah Johnson or The Revenant or even the Canadian western The Grey Fox.
Up River aims to be Jeremiah Johnson without any depth of story or subtext. Star Morgan Stevens is even made to look a lot like Robert Redford.
Steven plays Jacob Taylor, a young greenhorn who has travelled up the wilderness to stake his claim for land as a homesteader. He falls foul of a local land baron who is rounding up all the land for himself by fair means or foul.
Taylor is aided by a veteran hunter and trader Bagshaw, who also lumbers Taylor with a native woman to teach her the ways of the city. It just that Taylor falls for her and then loses her when the land baron's goons burn his dwelling down.
Taylor and Bagshaw then go looking for revenge.
Up River is very much an obscure movie. It is plain meat and potatoes with a very long introduction. It could easily had been a television movie. You might as well be better off watching Dances with Wolves, Jeremiah Johnson or The Revenant or even the Canadian western The Grey Fox.