<Li> Kenneth Welsh as Sheriff Tynert </Li> <Li> Bart the Bear as the Bear </Li> <P> Legends of the Fall was primarily filmed on location in Alberta and British Columbia, Canada . Principal photography began in mid-September 1993 . The World War I battlefield scenes took two weeks to film and were shot near Morley, Alberta, with hundreds of locals and a few Canadian Forces soldiers recruited as extras . The Ghost River Wilderness Area in Alberta served as the filming location for the Ludlow ranch; additional outdoor scenes, as well as the funeral and cemetery scenes, were shot at the Bow River near Banff National Park . A historic harbour area in Vancouver called Gastown was augmented with period building facades for the Helena, Montana street scenes . Hotel scenes were shot at the Hotel Europe at 43 Powell Street in Vancouver . Additional scenes were shot at Maple Leaf Square in Gastown, Vancouver, and Ocho Rios in Saint Ann, Jamaica . Filming wrapped up around January 1994 . </P> <P> The film opened in limited release on December 23, 1994, and expanded to a wide release on January 13, 1995 . During its first weekend in wide release, which was a four - day weekend due to Martin Luther King, Jr . Day, the film reached number one at the domestic box office after grossing $14 million . After its initial run, the film brought in a final box office total of $160,638,883 . Against its $30 million budget, the film was a financial success . </P>

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