You Know My Name (1999)
Fact-based biography of early film producer and director Bill Tilghman (Sam Elliott). Tilghman was a real-life cowboy, who rode with the Earps and faced down countless bad guys. When he turned to films, he was determined to make authentic Westerns, rather than the fake carrying on of Tom Mix and other Western movie stars of the day. The only problem was that no one wanted to see his non-stars in any story. Arliss Howard co-stars as a cocaine-addled law enforcement nemesis of Tighman, who attempts to stop him at every turn.
America's Last Great Lawman Takes On a New Kind of Outlaw.
Bill Tilghman: This one - Dalton Brothers, who tried to rob two banks at one time. This thing about outlaws, boys - dumber'n stink bugs, most of 'em.
CL Ranch - 45001 Township Road, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Drumheller, Alberta, Canada
Film scouts came to Oklahoma for possible locations but Alberta, Canada, was chosen to save money. Elliott quit the project over this since TNT had agreed to shoot in Oklahoma as an early condition of Elliott's involvement. Director Harrison convinced him to return but he has said that his biggest regret on this movie was not shooting it in on location. The film did have its premiere in a theater in Oklahoma City, and Elliott attended.
The film takes place in 1924.
The film was not shot in Seminole, Oklahoma, as the iron rich dirt is red, and there are no small mountains. However, anyone who has looked up the filming locations already knows this.
Sam Elliott was fifty-five when this was made. He played the seventy-year-old Tilghman. Carolyn McCormick was forty. She played Tilghman's wife Zoe, who was forty-four.
Continuity
At the beginning, when they are raiding the moonshiners, a man in gray gets shot in the back with a shotgun, and falls over a barrel. When the camera angle changes, the same man gets shot in the back again, and falls over the same barrel again.
Factual errors
Tilghman refers to "Wild Bill" Hickok as William B. Hickok, when his real name was James B. Hickok.
Tilghman uses the term "comic book" - comic books weren't in wide circulation until the early 1930s.