African Cowboy

African Cowboy

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African Cowboy

"Beauty must sometimes be defended."

2013

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A Namibian cowboy is beaten and left for dead in the vast desert, after standing up to a trans-national posse of brutal land-grabbers. However, things change when he's rescued by a mysterious gunslinger with reasons of his own to get even with the posse.

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Joel Haikali

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