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Writers (WGA):
Larry McMurtry (novel)
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Release Date:
12 May 1996 (USA) more
Awards:
Nominated for Primetime Emmy. Another 2 wins more
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Great Prequel to "Lonesome Dove" more (15 total)

Cast

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F. Murray Abraham ... Col. Caleb Cobb

Keith Carradine ... Bigfoot Wallace
Patricia Childress ... Matilda Jane 'Mattie' Roberts

Brian Dennehy ... Maj. Randall Chevallie

Edward James Olmos ... Capt. Salazar

Eric Schweig ... Buffalo Hump

Harry Dean Stanton ... Shadrach

David Arquette ... Augustus McCrae

Jonny Lee Miller ... Woodrow F. Call

Ray McKinnon ... Long Bill Coleman

Jennifer Garner ... Clara Forsythe

Tim Blake Nelson ... Johnny Carthage
Alastair Duncan ... Capt. Billy Falconer

Brad Greenquist
Kieran Mulroney ... Jimmy Tweed
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Larry McMurtry's Dead Man's Walk
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MPAA:
Rated PG-13 for violence and thematic elements involving the frontier experience.
Runtime:
272 min
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Aspect Ratio:
1.33 : 1 more
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Fun Stuff

Trivia:
Jonny Lee Miller plays a role previously played by Jon Voight in the unofficial sequel _"Return to Lonesome Dove" (1993) (mini)_. At the time of this film's broadcast, Miller was married to Voigt's daughter Angelina Jolie. more
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Anachronisms: This film is set in 1841 but presents Charles Goodnight as an adult. Goodnight was born in 1836, making him only a child at the time. more
Quotes:
[the rangers dig side-by-side graves for two of their dead comrades]
Long Bill Coleman: Josh and Zeke were pards. I don't guess they'll mind bunking together in the hereafter.
Bigfoot Wallace: If anybody knows a good scripture, let 'em say it. We got to skedaddle. I don't fancy another fight with Buffalo Hump.
Long Bill Coleman: There's that scripture about them green pastures...
Bigfoot Wallace: So say it then, Bill!
Long Bill Coleman: Well... them there's green pastures... that's all I recall.
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Followed by "Comanche Moon" (2008) more

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11 out of 13 people found the following comment useful.
Great Prequel to "Lonesome Dove", 27 January 1999
Author: Robert Grant from Calgary, Canada

In this prequel to "Lonesome Dove" based on the book by Larry McMurtry, we find a young Woodrow Call and Augustus Macrae just starting out as Texas Rangers and beginning to become men.

David Arquette is fantastic as the young Macrae and really captures the gestures and mannerisms that Robert Duvall put too such good use in Lonesome Dove. I was very impressed with his performance and had no trouble believing that he was the young Gus Macrae.

Johnny Lee Miller does not fare as well as the young Woodrow Call and it is hard to believe that this is the character that Tommy Lee Jones played in the original as there is little that ties their acting styles to the same role.

Visually, this is quite well done and comes the closest to Lonesome Dove in grittiness and open plain shots. The young Rangers are surrounded by eccentric characters played with great aplomb by the likes of Brian Dennehy, F.Murray Abraham, Keith Carradine, Harry Dean Stanton and Edward James Olmos.

Strong acting throughout and a crackling good story hilight this worthy sequel and it makes a fine addition to the lore that is Lonesome Dove.

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