First Cow (2020)

7.1/10 122 min Drama Western

Overview

In the 1820s, a taciturn loner and skilled cook travels west to Oregon Territory, where he meets a Chinese immigrant also seeking his fortune. Soon the two team up on a dangerous scheme to steal milk from the wealthy landowner’s prized Jersey cow—the first, and only, in the territory.

Cast

John Magaro

Cookie

Orion Lee

King-Lu

Toby Jones

Chief Factor

Ewen Bremner

Lloyd

Scott Shepherd

Captain

Gary Farmer

Totillicum

Lily Gladstone

Chief Factor’s Wife

Alia Shawkat

Woman with Dog

Dylan Smith

Trapper Jack

Patrick D. Green

Russian Trapper

René Auberjonois

Man with Raven

Jean-Luc Boucherot

Sailor in Saloon

Jeb Berrier

Cribbage Player

John Keating

Heckler in Saloon

Todd A. Robinson

Fort Trapper

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