Lone Rider (TV 2008)

With heartening family drama and adrenaline-pumping action, Lone Rider is a western with guts, glory, and a powerful message. Bob Hattaway, an honored soldier, returns to his Western ... See full summary »

Director:

David S. Cass Sr.

Writer:

Frank Sharp

Stars:

Lou Diamond Phillips, Stacy Keach, Vincent Spano

1 nomination.

Cast

Credited cast:
Lou Diamond Phillips	...	Bobby Hattaway
Stacy Keach	...	Robert Hattaway
Vincent Spano	...	Stu Croker
Marta DuBois	...	Dora
Terry Maratos	...	Curtis
Cynthia Preston	...	Constance
Angela Alvarado	...	Serena (as Angela Alvarado Rosa)
Mike Starr	...	Lloyd
Robert Baker	...	Vic
Timothy Bottoms	...	Gus
Ann Walker	...	Irene
Tom Schanley	...	Mike Butler
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Maria Jordan	...	Saloon Girl
Nygell	...	Townfolk
Jimmy Ortega	...	Rough Rider #4

Storyline

With heartening family drama and adrenaline-pumping action, Lone Rider is a western with guts, glory, and a powerful message. Bob Hattaway, an honored soldier, returns to his Western hometown to discover that corrupt landowner Stu Croaker has become the most powerful man in the county. What Stu wants next is the Hattaway family business. And normally, what he wants, he gets. But when his strong-arm tactics turn deadly, Bob fights back with a vengeance. This is the West and it s going to get wild. Featuring an all-star cast including Lou Diamond Phillips, Vincent Spano, and Stacy Keach.

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Genres:

Western

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Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

12 April 2008 (USA)

Also Known As:

Cavaleiro Solitário

Company Credits

Production Co:

Grand Army Entertainment

Did You Know?

Goofs

You can see a crew hand holding his horse's reins as Stu gets back on his horse during the gunfight to make his fast getaway.

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Quotes

Bobby Hattaway: Curtis, are you getting fat?
Curtis: Just good livin' cousin, good livin'!

User Reviews

Bares Resemblance To Anthony Mann/James Stewart Westerns

In Lone Rider Lou Diamond Phillips returns to his small Texas town after war service and looks to settle down with his family. When he left there before the Civil War his parents and cousin had a prosperous ranch and a mercantile in town.

But while he's been away, a boyhood friend has become the town boss and is looking to take over the ranch and the mercantile. Lou's father Stacy Keach has borrowed for the store with a loan on the ranch which boyhood friend Vincent Spano wants paid in full.

Spano's moving on a few fronts in that town and in the tradition of many westerns the town looks for a champion and Lou fills the bill.

Lone Rider reminds me a whole lot of some of the Anthony Mann/James Stewart westerns of the Fifties. Phillips is playing a part that half a century ago Jimmy Stewart would have been playing. In fact there are distinct plot elements from The Far Country and Bend of the River in Lone Rider.

And fifty years ago Lone Rider would have been released on the big screen when westerns had more of a market and would have been acclaimed and enjoyed.

But for western fans like your's truly, we still enjoy them.