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Buchanan tells Pemberton that Rachel's father is waiting for him at the train station to confront him about impregnating his daughter. |
Pemberton sees Rachel and her father as they exit the train, but barely acknowledges them. |
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Pemberton and Buchanan have a third partner named Wilkie. |
Pemberton and Buchanan are the only partners.
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Buchanan is married. |
He is a bachelor. |
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Rachel's father confronts Pemberton about his pregnant daughter when he returns from Boston with Serena. |
The father stares, but doesn't say anything at all.
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Rachel's father has a knife in his jacket and says they are going to settle the issue right now. He and Pemberton fight with knives, until Pemberton stabs and kills Rachel's father. |
There is no fight and no words are spoken between the two. |
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Serena gives the knife Pemberton used to kill Rachel's father to the girl and tells her to sell it, because that is all she'll ever get from her husband. |
This doesn't happen. Rachel and Serena never talk.
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Pemberton was introduced to Serena at a party. |
Pemberton was with his sister watching Serena jump horses and then raced after her on horse back to tell her they should be married. |
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Serena wanted to be introduced to Pemberton. |
Pemberton wanted Serena first.
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Serena bet a lumberjack two weeks pay that she could guess how much timber was in one tree to prove how much she knew about the business. She won. |
She sees the men starting to cut a tree, and tells them to cut it lower because they are leaving a foot of timber on the stump. Galloway agrees. This proves her knowledge of the timber business. |
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Serena's whole family died of the flu when she was 16. |
When she was 12 her family home caught on fire and everyone was killed in the flames.
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Serena has the idea to go to Brazil and convinces Pemberton to go with her. |
Before he meets Serena, Pemberton has already bought land in Brazil. |
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Serena is completely evil. She was like that from the first time we meet her. |
She is not evil. She seems to snap after losing her child and acts deranged afterwards.
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Galloway lives with his mother and she has visions. He does not. |
We never see his mother. It is suggested that Galloway has visions. |
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Serena has her family home burned down before she leaves Colorado. This was after her family died. |
They died in the burning house.
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The Pembertons were considering a partnership with Harris. This doesn't work out and they later kill him. |
This doesn't happen. |
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Pemberton doesn't have any issues with the bank. |
The bank is refusing to renew the loan because of the crash of the stock market.
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Serena is with the company for quite some time before someone is bitten by a snake. |
On her first day out with the men she sees someone bitten by a snake. |
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Serena is out hunting with Pemberton when he is attacked by a bear. She kills it. |
She doesn't go hunting with them. Pemberton does see a bear when he shoots Buchanan.
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Pemberton says he will talk with Serena about Rachel getting her job back after Campbell comes to ask for it. |
Pemberton goes and talks to Rachel after Campbell asks about getting her job back. He tells her she can. He never discusses it with Serena first. |
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Pemberton met Rachel in the dinning hall to tell her she could have her job back. |
He met her in the church.
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Rachel has blond hair and blue eyes. |
She is a brunette with brown eyes. |
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Pemberton gave money to Campbell when he saw Rachel getting her picture taken with Jacob. He wanted him to give it to Rachel to get the picture. |
Pemberton filled an envelope with money and wrote, "For your child" on it. He never gives it to Campbell.
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The park offers Pemberton $680,000 for the land. He wants $800,000. |
They offer $400,000 and he wants 1 million. |
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Buchanan is wavering about selling to the park people. That is the extent of it. |
He is working with them and also threatens to get Pemberton put in jail if he doesn't sell.
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This doesn't happen. |
Pemberton fights Galloway off when he is going to kill Rachel. He takes his razor and slashes his throat, killing him. |
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Buchanan shot a deer and was going towards it when Pemberton shot him. |
Buchanan shot at a bear and missed. He then looked at Pemberton, who raised his gun and shot him.
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Joel was asked about what he had seen after Buchanan was shot. He said nothing. |
It was Campbell who was questioned and denied seeing anything. |
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Galloway was showing a kid where to cut a tree, and as he swung the ax, his knee buckled and he cut off Galloway's hand. |
Galloway stands up and loses his footing and reaches out for the tree just as the ax is being swung.
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The lumber crew only found out Serena was pregnant when she went to help Galloway. |
They knew before that. |
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Serena told Pemberton to keep Galloway after he lost his hand because she knew he would be loyal to her from then on. |
Galloway came to Pemberton and told him he would be indebted to his wife.
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After the accident with Galloway, Serena is visited by the Doctor because of pain and fear for the baby. The doctor dismisses it as gas and tells someone to give her peppermints. |
Pemberton asks if they should go to the hospital and the doctor says they can, but Serena insists she will be fine. |
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After Serena loses the baby, the Doctor goes missing and found murdered in the train station. Galloway did it. |
The doctor is not murdered.
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Campbell leaves and is never heard from again. He believes the Pembertons are evil. |
Campbell takes the ledgers from the safe and goes to the sheriff. He is killed by Galloway. |
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Serena is totally fine after losing her baby. |
She starts to lose her mind.
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Harris, the other partner is killed by Galloway because he lied to the Pembertons. |
Harris doesn't appear in the film. |
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Pemberton goes to see the sheriff to make a deal after the old woman looking after Jacob is killed. While he is there, Rachel and Jacob are brought in. |
He goes to see the sheriff and asks where Rachel and Jacob are so he can protect them from Galloway.
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Pemberton gives the sheriff 300 dollars to give Rachel before she leaves on the train. He doesn't see her. |
Pemberton saves Rachel from Galloway. He kills Galloway and then waits with her after when she gets on the train. He doesn't give her money then, but has given her plenty of money previously. |
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Galloway knows where Rachel is because his mother had a vision. |
He just goes to town and waits to see her.
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Rachel jumps into the boxcar to hide from Galloway before it leaves. |
She jumps onto the moving boxcar. |
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Rachel hits Galloway in the face with a bag of marbles and kicks him off the train. |
Rachel is going to be killed by Galloway on the train, but Pemberton jumps on and fights and kills Galloway.
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The sheriff lights the Pemberton's house on fire. George wakes up and breaks the window and they escape. |
This doesn't happen. |
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Serena moves to Brazil and lives to old age with Galloway by her side. They are killed by Jacob. |
Galloway is killed by Pemberton. Then after Pemberton is killed by the Panther, Serena sets her cabin on fire at the logging camp in North Carolina. She dies in the blaze.
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