A once-thriving mining town on the edge of collapse sets the stage for Murder at Yellowstone City, a Western built around a former slave searching for a place to belong.
What is Murder at Yellowstone City about?
Montana's fictional Yellowstone City has faded from its boomtown years into a fading, boarded-up settlement by the time a former slave arrives looking for somewhere to call home. Richard Gray directs the 127-minute Western, which uses the town's decline as a backdrop for the tensions that follow his arrival, drawing on the genre's familiar frontier setting while keeping its focus on one outsider trying to put down roots.
About the cast
Gabriel Byrne and Thomas Jane anchor a deep ensemble that includes Isaiah Mustafa, Anna Camp, Nat Wolff, Richard Dreyfuss, Aimee Garcia and Zach McGowan. It is a notably stacked cast for a Western of this scale, spanning veteran character actors alongside younger performers, and Richard Gray's direction gives the town itself room to feel as worn down as the people living in it.
Context & significance
Murder at Yellowstone City belongs to a run of Westerns that returned to prominence in the early 2020s, favoring small, dying towns over the wide-open cattle-drive settings of earlier decades. At 127 minutes, it has room to develop its frontier community and the pressures closing in on it rather than rushing through a single confrontation. For viewers drawn to Westerns anchored in character actors and a specific, decaying place rather than sweeping landscapes, it fits that recent wave of the genre.
Watching Murder at Yellowstone City on Ktime
Murder at Yellowstone City is available on K-Time with Persian dubbing, so the Western can be followed entirely in Farsi without needing subtitles. Watching only requires a free K-Time account, and the platform's Farsi-first design is built for the Iranian diaspora audience looking for genre films like this one in their own language.