Q:Build a movie plot around this: What's the name of Hiram's great-grandson? burt
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In 1889, a Nevada silver mine is mysteriously attacked, killing 17 miners. Most residents of the nearby town of Rejection pack up and leave. Juan Pedilla (Brent Roam), one of the surviving miners, will not leave because he dreams of paying off his own ranch. The telegraph notifies the remaining people that an Easterner is coming to find out about the mine. The prissy and snobbish Hiram Gummer (Michael Gross) arrives, and scoffs at the account of events at the mine. He bulldozes the innkeeper Christine Lord (Sara Botsford) into running a tab for him, rather than paying in advance.Hiram and Juan go with the remaining miners to check the mine, and find nothing. As they camp for the night, one of the men playing the concertina suddenly disappears, as the horses scatter. Another man is pulled underground, to the horror of the others. A monster swallows the whistling teapot on the fire, and the group shoots over and over. A pickaxe kills one of the monsters, but the other two men are also killed. Juan and Hiram survive by climbing on a nearby rock. Hiram notices the monsters have no eyes, and Juan realizes the monsters are following sounds. They walk over the rocky hills back to town. At the store run by Pyong Lien (Ming Lo) and Lu Wan Chang (Lydia Look), Hiram has their son Fu Yien (Sam Ly) telegraph an ad for a gunfighter to several newspapers.While they wait, the townspeople continue with assorted improvement projects. Young Fu Yien sees Hiram give up on repairing his bicycle, and fixes it. Hiram gives him the bicycle, but scorns doing any work himself. The townsmen use their steam engine to dig a well, and even the boy helps.The menacing Gunslinger Black Hand Kelly (Billy Drago) arrives, and they explain about the monsters. He agrees to the job after exacting Hiram's diamond cufflinks and gold coin watch fob as a down payment. They choose some guns from Christine's collection and ride out to the mine. They fail to attract monsters by hammering a rock at their last camp, so they approach the mine. Kelly fires a...