Jefferson Kidd, played by Tom Hanks, solemnly reading headlines to a gathering of townsfolk on the American frontier. The country is still severed and aching from the Civil War, and Kidd reports about the 97 souls lost in just two months because of a meningitis epidemic. There are action sequences from the “Bourne Supremacy” director along the way, and Howard spent weeks working on a lengthy shootout involving a trio of dirtbags. He wrote a simple, hymn-like theme for Kidd, whom Howard saw as “a good man who’s searching for restitution. At the climax, after a moment of healing and closure, Kidd urgently races across the land on horseback.

Source: Los Angeles Times January 25, 2021 15:17 UTC