OUTLAW: THE PERSONAL JUSTICE OF KATIE WATSON

By Kylie HITCHCOCK

YARN SPINNER ENTERTAINMENT INC. - as PROD

Western - Development 2024

A young bride, left for dead in a burning cabin, becomes obsessed with avenging her husband’s death after he is brutally murdered by a psychotic cattle thief.

Festivals
& Awards

Nashville Film Festival 2018
Semi finalist
Austin Revolution Film Festival 2018
Finalist
    • Year of production
    • 2024
    • Genres
    • Western, Action/Adventure, Female director
    • Countries
    • CANADA
    • Duration
    • 90 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Kylie HITCHCOCK
    • Writer(s)
    • Kylie HITCHCOCK
    • Synopsis
    • The year is 1868. Katie and her parents are traveling west on the Oregon Trail when their covered wagon capsizes in a freezing river. Katie is rescued by a small band of Cheyenne and is given a doll by a young Cheyenne boy, an attempt to comfort her after her mother drowns. Katie and her father, Joseph complete the journey and start a new life in the outpost of West Creek. Katie kept the doll, a reminder of that day and the kindness they received.
      Ten years later, West Creek is a lawless melting pot of rogues, gold diggers and whores, terrorized by the cattle thief, Walter Hawke, and his gang. When Billy Watson, arrives to establish a cattle ranch, Katie and he share an intense attraction and fall in love.
      Walter Hawke and his Gang are marauders, cattle thieves, and extortionists, wreaking havoc and fear. Walter Hawke considers the town his and is this includes the beautiful Katie with whom he is obsessed. At the same time he moves in on Billy’s cattle venture, but Billy won’t give up what he has worked so hard for voluntarily and is ready to defend what’s his.
      Walter Hawke’s perversions and evil nature come to the fore when he arrives at Billy’s place on their wedding night. He murders Billy and rapes Katie after cutting and torturing her. He leaves her for dead in Billy’s cabin after setting it ablaze, confident he’ll get away with the crime and seize the rest of Billy’s land and cattle.
      Shongaa, a Cheyenne, and his warrior friend smell the smoke from the burning and cabin run to the blazing inferno. Shongaa, a boy when he met a freezing Katie on the riverbank more than a decade earlier, recognizes the Cheyenne doll he gave her. He leaps into the blazing cabin and rescues her.
      Katie recovers in Shongaa’s Cheyenne camp. Her presence brings tension to the band, and the elders want her gone. Katie confronts the elders with a deal: make Shongaa train her to kill, and she’ll leave.
      Shongaa refuses, but Katie wants revenge at any cost, and the Elders acquiesce. He trains her hard and Katie fines tunes her skills until she becomes a lethal killing machine.
      Katie leaves the Cheyenne to hunt Walter Hawke down and becomes an outlaw herself. In her final, bloody confrontation with Walter Hawke on the edge of a high cliff, Katie has him trapped, but his Gang is closing in on her. Walter Hawke jumps!
      Katie leaps after Walter Hawke with her tomahawk ready to strike.
      The personal justice of Katie Watson is complete.