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In Reply to: RE:-Lonesome Dove, what? posted by patrickU on July 30, 2008 at 00:21:03:
...an adaptation of Larry McMurtry's Pulitzer Prize winning, best selling novel (which, ironically, had originally been penned as a screenplay 10 years earlier).
LD stars Tommy Lee Jones, Robert Duvall, Danny Glover, Chris Cooper, Angelica Houston and Diane Lane among others. One of the most beloved of all TV dramas, LD was one of the best miniseries ever produced for American network TV (THE best IMO) back in the days before HBO and cable produced movie series dominated. Jones and Duvall, as former Texas Rangers Cash and McRae, have two of their greatest and most iconic roles as the proprietors of a run down cattle company in an obscure, dusty Texas border town. Shot on location in the American west, LD is ostensibly the tale of an epic cattle drive from the Rio Grande to nothern Montanna, though its real subject is the passing of an era as depicted through the friendship between Cash and McRae and their relationship with their motley crew of cowboys.
Produced at a time when westerns were box office poison, LD proved hugely popular, inspiring additional miniseries and episodic TV, none of which approach the quality of the legendary original series IMO. When you rent this 6 hour series, allow a large block of your time for viewing as this will eat a hole in your weekend.
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Follow Ups
- Celebrated 1989 western miniseries... - Harmonia 05:59:13 07/30/08 (9)
- RE: Celebrated 1989 western miniseries... - patrickU 06:05:49 07/30/08 (8)
- Outstanding adaptation of McMurtry's beloved novel Patrick - Road Warrior 20:44:21 07/30/08 (1)
- RE: Outstanding adaptation of McMurtry's beloved novel Patrick - patrickU 05:02:15 07/31/08 (0)
- It's not to missed, Patrick-Robert Duval's greatest role, IMO nt - padreken 08:23:49 07/30/08 (5)
- RE: It's not to missed, Patrick-Robert Duval's greatest role, IMO nt - patrickU 08:27:11 07/30/08 (4)
- The blu-ray release has english SDH (subtitling for the deaf & hearing impaired) - padreken 08:40:32 07/30/08 (3)
- RE: They used to write Closed Captioned! - patrickU 09:29:28 07/30/08 (2)
- "Big Country" is as great as any ever made. Gregory Peck, beautiful - tinear 20:33:15 07/31/08 (1)
- RE: We are all getting gaga... - patrickU 04:39:53 08/01/08 (0)
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