Broken Highway

In this moody black and white drama very much in the mode of the American western but with its own film noir characteristics a whole town is heaved out of its doldrums when a pair of mysterious strangers come visiting In the beginning of the film Angel is traveling with his friend Max on a ship to Honeyfield a town on the coast of Australia He is coming home to die Instead he dies on board the ship willing his boots to Angel and an unopened package to someone called The Dead Man in Honeyfield Also on the ship is a man named Tatts a far less pleasant personality When Angel gets off to head into Honeyfield Tatts decides to follow along unseen The package Angel was told contains something its intended recipient has been looking for without knowing it On finding the recipient a meanspirited old man who is more or less the boss and owner of the town he learns that the package contains opium