Jean-Jacques Annaud wrestles Umberto Eco’s supposedly unfilmable novel into a grim medieval procedural-cum-conspiracy thriller starring Sean Connery and Christian Slater.
Abandoned by her family as an unwed mother and sold as a prostitute to soldiers by a traveling salesman, Josephine Monaghan (Suzy Amis) decides to live as a man. As ‘Jo,’ she settles in the shabby mining town of Ruby City and becomes a frontiersman.