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When notorious American gunslinger, the Montana Kid, staggers into the tiny Canadian hamlet of Barclay’s Brush, life for the town’s 17 inhabitants starts to get exciting. The Kid immediately gets into an unfortunate altercation with Jack, the town’s surly blacksmith, which leads to the Kid ‘calling him out’ for some good old frontier justice – a showdown. But in a place totally ill prepared to deal with a classic gun fight, and without a single working pistol to be found, adhering to the code of the American Wild West may prove difficult. Not able to let go of the ‘code’, the Kid remains stuck in Barclay’s Brush, getting drawn into a strange world of eccentric rituals and characters; among them Jane, a smart sassy woman who becomes his only hope of finding a way out… or perhaps his only reason for staying…
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William Phillips is a Canadian writer and director presently living in Southern California. Prior to Gunless, Phillips wrote and directed Foolproof, starring Ryan Reynolds, which was, at the time, the largest Canadian independent feature release in Canada. Phillips' first feature film, Treed Murray received its world premiere at the 2001 Toronto International Film Festival and was honoured with Genie nominations for Best Director and Best Picture. Treed Murray garnered two 2002 Genie Awards for sound. Phillips is a graduate of the University of Toronto, Ryerson University, and the Canadian Film Centre. 
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