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5 February 1989 (USA)
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Epic story about two former Texas rangers who decide to move cattle from the south to Montana. Augustus...
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Montana
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Cattle Drive
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Won 2 Golden Globes.
Another 14 wins
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17 nominations
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'Smallville' Gets Two-Hour Justice Society TV Movie
(From Get The Big Picture. 12 November 2009, 12:03 AM, PST)
Beyond Broken Trail and Lonesome Dove - The Cowboy Career of Robert Duvall
(From amctv.com - Future of Classic: Westerns. 6 November 2009, 9:01 PM, PST)
(From Get The Big Picture. 12 November 2009, 12:03 AM, PST)
Beyond Broken Trail and Lonesome Dove - The Cowboy Career of Robert Duvall
(From amctv.com - Future of Classic: Westerns. 6 November 2009, 9:01 PM, PST)
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Best western ever
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(Series Cast Summary - 1 of 64) | Robert Duvall | ... | Augustus 'Gus' McCrae (unknown episodes) |
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384 min | Brazil:145 min (video version)
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Originally written by Larry McMurtry in 1971 as a movie script. He intended John Wayne to play Woodrow Call, James Stewart to play Gus McCrae and Henry Fonda to play Jake Spoon, with Peter Bogdanovich directing. Wayne turned it down, and the project was shelved. Ten years later McMurtry bought the script back and wrote the book (on which the series was based).
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Continuity: When Augustus is thrown from his horse after first being shot at by Blue Duck's men, he drops his canteen. When he climbs back on his horse, the canteen is back hanging on the saddle horn.
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Woodrow Call:
[Jake is carrying a drunken Dish across the bridge] Dish, what in the hell has happened to you?
Dish Boggett: Wish I could say, Captain.
Woodrow Call: Why not?
Dish Boggett: 'Cause I can't remember.
Jake Spoon: [Laughing] I found him in back of the saloon, tryin' to see how fast he could drink a bottle of whiskey.
Woodrow Call: Dammit, Dish; I won't have a man with me who can't do his job!
Dish Boggett: [Attempting to straighten up] Don't worry, Captain. I can sit my horse.
[Falls down and starts throwing up]
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Dish Boggett: Wish I could say, Captain.
Woodrow Call: Why not?
Dish Boggett: 'Cause I can't remember.
Jake Spoon: [Laughing] I found him in back of the saloon, tryin' to see how fast he could drink a bottle of whiskey.
Woodrow Call: Dammit, Dish; I won't have a man with me who can't do his job!
Dish Boggett: [Attempting to straighten up] Don't worry, Captain. I can sit my horse.
[Falls down and starts throwing up]
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Referenced in "Doogie Howser, M.D.: Lonesome Doog (#3.6)" (1991)
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I saw this when it first debuted on TV early in 1989 simply for the fact that much of it was filmed in Austin, but was absolutely drawn to it pretty fast and for four nights in a row I was taping it off TV and watching it religiously. Never have I seen a western that portrayed life the way it probably really was in the 1880's like this one, not to mention most old westerns suffered from terrible production values and always seemed to be filmed in California's chaparral country between L.A. and Death Valley. The locations in this one were so authentic in comparison. The basically simple story revolves around two old retired Texas Rangers who have spent the last 10 years wasting away in a lifeless south Texas desert border town and decide to make the move to Montana. Along the way they meet an Arkansas sheriff, who is after one in their bunch, an old flame of Robert Duvall's, and numerous Indian raids. I noticed something peculiar, and maybe it is historically accurate, but it seems that race relations with blacks were not an issue in the old west and they seemed to be treated as equals, much unlike to their old south counterparts. Nothing but flamboyant characters abounded; my favorites were a then-unknown Steve Buscemi as a trashy animal fur wearing horse buggy provider, Chris Cooper as a weak, but well-meaning sheriff, Barry Corbin as his slow-witted deputy, a minor character living in east Texas backwoods skinning a posssum, and on top of all them, Robert Duvall as Gus. Tommy Lee Jones didn't flaunt his comic talents as he did in many flms after this one and always had a rain cloud over his head.