Ahead of its release later this month, a trailer has arrived online for writer-director Roderick MacKay’s Australian Western thriller The Furnace. Set during the 1890s gold rush of Western Australia, the film stars Ahmad Malek, David Wenham, Jay Ryan, Mahesh Jadu and Baykali Ganambarr; watch it here…
To escape a harsh existence and return home, a young Afghan cameleer partners with a mysterious bushman on the run with two 400oz Crown-marked gold bars.
Together the unlikely pair must outwit a zealous police sergeant and his troopers in a race to reach a secret furnace where they can safely reset the bars to remove the mark of the Crown.
The Furnace is set for release on January 25th.