Series

Lonesome Dove
Adventure, Drama, TV, Western
Hallmark Entertainment (1989) 384 mins NR (Not Rated)

9.0 (5,442 votes)

Former Texas Rangers, Gus McCrae, (Robert Duvall,) and Woodrow Call, (Tommy Lee Jones,) are enjoying retirement on their south Texas ranch when a visiting comrade, Jake Spoon, (Robert Urich,) regales the two with tales of cattle ranching in Montana. Call is inflamed with the idea at once. (Could retirement on the ranch be too tame for a man who has lived on or near a fast horse most of his life?) Gus lets himself be persuaded to go by Call because he wants to go to Montana by way of Nebraska where a former sweetheart, (actually the love of his life,) resides, and he would go there to see her on any pretense, cattle drive included. After stealing a herd of Mexican cattle, they turn the herd north for Montana, across America of the late 1800's, with all it's dangers and beauty. Adventures rise up out of the praries to test them, from thunderstorms to hostile Indians and their interactions ...

Robert Duvall ...... Augustus McCrae

Tommy Lee Jones ...... Woodrow F Call

Danny Glover ...... Joshua Deets

Diane Lane ...... Lorena Wood

Robert Urich ...... Jake Spoon

Frederic Forrest ...... Blue Duck

Director ..... Simon Wincer

Producer ..... Dyson Lovell; Robert Halmi Jr.

Writer ..... Bill Wittliff; Larry McMurtry; William D. Wittliff

Goofs:
Continuity: After Jake gets to Lonesome Dove, and he and Gus are sitting and talking, as Jake is falling asleep, Gus sets the Jug down, and when the camera angle changes, he sets it down again. (more)

Trivia:
After the novel won the Pulitzer Prize, both John Milius and John Houston attempted to adapt it into a feature film before Suzanne De Passe and Larry McMurtry decided to do it as a mini-series. (more)

Filming Locations:
Alamo Village - Highway 674, Brackettville, Texas, USA (more)

Quotes:
Blue Duck: [Call is looking at Blue Duck in jail] I hear you brought you stinkin' old friend to watch my hangin'.
Woodrow Call: He'd have enjoyed it.
Blue Duck: I should've killed him when I had a chance.
Woodrow Call: I'd have killed you for it.
Blue Duck: [laughing] I stole horses, burned farms, killed men, raped women and stole children all over your territory and until today, you never even got a good look at me! I don't think you would've killed me. Rangers! I 'spect I'll kill a passel of you yet.
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Awards:
Won 2 Golden Globes. Another 14 wins & 17 nominations (more)