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Lonesome Dove on DVD
Return to Lonesome Dove on DVD
Dead Man's Walk on DVD
Streets of Laredo on DVD
Lonesome Dove: The (TV) Series (1994) on DVD too!
Lonesome Dove Soundtrack on CD. (Release date: Oct 20th 1998). It's contains 4 tracks not on the original soundtrack release.
Other TV movies related to the original Lonesome Dove movie:
Lonesome Dove - Tales of the Plains
Lonesome Dove: The Making of an Epic Very good 'documentry' with lots of good trivia about the original movie. A behind the scenes look including lots of action footage from the making of Lonesome Dove. The stars talk about creating their rolls, as well as the insiders/wranglers who expertly handled the hundreds of horses and cattle as well as the stuntmen who risked their lives. It is hard to find but it is out there.
The Return to Lonesome Dove:
Originally aired Nov. 14, 1993, on CBS. Written by John Wilder. Running time: 5 hours 30 minutes. Distributor: Cabin Fever. The story wasn't written by McMurtry (nor was it even authorized by him) and yet it is still a very good sequel. I find it hard to believe that Larry McMurtry did not authorize it, otherwise, due to the similarities I'd have thought the lawyers would have got involved!! Jon Voight plays Woodrow F. Call. Has many of the original cast.The Streets of Laredo: Stars James Garner as Woodrow F. Call. Streets of Laredo originally aired November 12, 1995, on CBS. Written by Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana. Produced by Suzanne de Passe and Robert Halmi, Jr. Distributor: Cabin Fever.
Captain Woodrow Call, an aging Texas Ranger is hired to gun down a thieving, murdering, teenage Mexican sharp-shooter.
Dead Mans Walk:1996- Produced by Suzanne de Passe Distributed by: Cabin Fever Entertainment, Inc.
Woodrow Call and Gus McCrae are young men and begin their first adventures with the Texas Rangers. Call's parents were victims of smallpox and was raised by an uncle so cruel he ran away to Texas as soon as he could. Call is assisting a blacksmith in San Antonio when he first spies McCrae, asleep against the wall of a saloon. From the beginning McCrae was the more outgoing of the two, the one who searched for adventure. It was McCrae who convinced Call to join the Texas Rangers.
Chicago Actor, Island Hero // Petersen Tackles `Beast' in Miniseries
Chicago Sun-Times, April 28, 1996
[snip]... Petersen's previous miniseries experiences came in two sprawling epics that aired for three nights. He played political patriarch Joseph P. Kennedy for ABC in "The Kennedys of Massachusetts" (1990) and retired Texas Ranger Gideon Walker for CBS in "Return to Lonesome Dove" (1993). Both characters died.
But a co-starring role in the original "Lonesome Dove" - a four-night, eight-hour Western masterpiece - slipped through Petersen's fingers. "That probably was the biggest disappointment of my career," said the skilled horseman and Montana rancher. "Suzanne de Passe (an executive producer for the 1989 CBS miniseries) wanted me to play Jake Spoon."
A former lawman turned rustler, Spoon was hanged by his retired Texas Ranger friends, Captains Woodrow Call (Tommy Lee Jones) and Augustus McCrae (Robert Duvall). "Somebody at the network said, `We've got too many movie guys already. We need a TV guy in the cast.' So Robert Urich got the part of Jake," Petersen said with a sigh. "That was the best miniseries ever made.
"I was very leery about doing the sequel, because Larry McMurtry (the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the Lonesome Dove novel) didn't write the story," Petersen said. "But I talked with Jon Voight (who played Call in the `Return' sequel), and we realized that they were going to film it with or without us. So we decided to do it and try our best to make it decent." Petersen said he was surprised and pleased to learn that he might get a second chance to play Jake Spoon in a "Lonesome Dove" sequel written by McMurtry. The author said his final Lonesome Dove novel, Comanche Moon, would be published late in 1997. Production of the ABC miniseries "Comanche Moon" could begin in late '97 or early '98, McMurtry said.
Set one or two decades earlier than Lonesome Dove, the Comanche Moon story could bring back Jake Spoon, Joshua Deets, Blue Duck and other characters who died in the original novel and miniseries. McMurtry would not reveal plot points, but he confirmed that Gus McCrae and Woodrow Call will return as Texas Rangers in their 40s. [end snip]
For entire article see: http://home.att.net/~jo.an/beastsun.html
Barry Corbin talks about his role in Crossfire Trail, working with Tom Selleck, Sam Elliott, and making Western films
[snip] ... But perhaps his western fans know him best for his performance as Roscoe Brown, the unlikely deputy in the Emmy Award-winning television miniseries Lonesome Dove...[end snip]
[snip] TF: Let's talk a little bit about Simon Wincer, the director of Crossfire Trail. You worked with Simon on the miniseries Lonesome Dove. How was it teaming up with him again?
BC: Oh, I love working with Simon! He's got a good eye. And he knows what he's looking for in an individual performance within a scene. You know, a lot of times a director has an overall view of the project and kind of lets the individual things slide. But Simon's right on top of all of it. [end snip]
< snip>TF: What's your take on the public's appetite for the western, and how does that match up with Hollywood's assessment of that appetite?
BC: Well, I think for the last fifteen, twenty years or so Hollywood has underestimated the appeal of the western. I think there is still a huge market. Conagher was a hit for TNT and it still plays and it's still selling in video. They probably sell as many tapes of Lonesome Dove as they do of any other movie. And I think probably that Crossfire Trail will be in that category too. [end snip]
[snip]BC: Yes. ...But the producers underestimate the popularity. Like when Lonesome Dove came out and did so well, they thought it was just an anomaly. They couldn't believe that people wanted to see westerns. But if they do them right, then people do want to see them.
TF: Do you think the popularity of Lonesome Dove had an effect on the western, good or bad?
BC: Well... they did Lonesome Dove. Then they did the sequel. Then they did that TV series up in Canada. I think they kind of run that one story into the ground. It didn't really do a whole lot as far as other westerns go. It became kind of a mini-franchise for Lonesome Dove. ...I hope Larry McMurtry got rich off it. I don't know that he did - he ought to have. (chuckles) ...I don't know that they're ever going to make Comanche Moon. I was talking to Larry McMurtry about a year ago and he said he didn't think they were going to make it. He said he thinks they've worn out the franchise. [end snip]
For complete article with photos see:
Linda Bostic Smith's Art Studio
Linda likes to call her self an Appalachian Artist. People are also drawn to her cowboy art, especially "Gus" and "Woodrow". She has done portraits for a number of celebrities, Robert Duvall, Danny Glover, and Robert Urich among others.
("Gus" image is used with permission from the artist)
Cap'n Calls Cantina
Buffalo Girls (1994) by Larry McMurtry
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