A mainly nice western, despite lots of heavy duty violence. Lots of really beautiful landscapes too. Two brothers are hired killers for a local boss in Oregon, and they are hired to track down and kill a man who the boss ("the Commodore") has taken against. Another guy is actually doing the finding and the tracking, and he will detain the planned victim until the brother arrives. But the victim persuades the tracking guy to join him in his venture - he has developed a chemical method of illuminating gold in rivers, making it easy to extract - and he plans to make money in order to fund a utopian community in Dallas.
I don't need to talk you through all the rest of the plot twists, but there are plenty, and it's a lot to do with the relationship between the brothers, and with their now-dead father.
I watched this with Covid, and I liked it much more than I expected to.
Thanks to BBC iPlayer.
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