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DVD Monte Walsh
Tom Selleck is at his iconic best in this made-for-cable remake of Monte Walsh, a poignant Western about the passing of an American age and the people attached to it. Selleck plays the title character, a career cowboy whose rhythms are aligned with the seasons and the annual herding of cattle from Wyoming to Texas. Faithful to his ways, loyal to his best friend (Keith Carradine), and satisfied with his part-time romance with an ailing, aging saloon girl (Isabella Rosselini), Walsh is happy until his 1890s world rapidly unravels. Eastern corporations are buying up land and shutting down ranches; trains are shuttling livestock faster than an army of cowhands. Walsh can't accommodate the future, and those closest to him are moving on. Director Simon Wincer (Lonesome Dove) masterfully balances the epic and elegaic, Selleck is perfect as a fading footnote to history, and Monte Walsh becomes a universal tale of loss and integrity. --Tom Keogh
The melancholy story of a passing way of life, a doomed love, and a friendship gone bad is the real star of Monte Walsh. Although Selleck, Carradine, et al do a pretty good job, overall this version can't hold a candle to the 1970 version starring Lee Marvin, Jeanne Moreau, and Jack Palance. I wish the earlier version would be released on DVD.
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This was worth watching for George Eads alone!!! I'm not usually into westerns, but I admit I watched it mainly to see him in this and I was actually glad in the end I did see it. Not too bad. Probably a very underated movie because the acting was actually fairly good. If you like westerns and even if you don't you'll probably like this one too.
Not a bad effort........
Tom Selleck portrays Monte Walsh an aging cowboy in the declining days of the Old West. We see him face the threat to his way of life from big cattle business, railroads, and death. All through this he is unwilling to leave or abandon the life he knows. Having been familiar with the 70's film with Lee Marvin and Jack Palance, I was interested in watching the differences between the two films. There are minor differences but nothing very radical. In some ways this version is much better than the old one. I really enjoyed the way each film treats the relationship that Monte has with Martine. Each portrayed the love that they had together and the loss that Monte felt in her passing. All in all a good film. I just kept waiting for Mama Cass to sing...'The Good Times are Coming'.
There are unmistakable pleasures to an old-fashioned Western, and Crossfire Trail has 'em. Tom Selleck has a lean, weathered face that sits nicely atop a horse and beneath a broad-brimmed hat; he plays a canny cowboy who's come to make good on a promise to a dying man and ends up caught between a beautiful woman (Virginia Madsen) and a wicked man in black--a couple of them, actually. Crossfire Trail has just about every element you could ask for (a Sioux war party, a cruel hired gun, a shootout in the street, even a cattle stampede), but it spins them out with such clean efficiency that you can't help but enjoy it. Directed skillfully and with heart, Crossfire Trail will satisfy any Western fan. Based on the novel by Louis L'Amour; also featuring Wilford Brimley and... More Info about this DVD Director(s): Simon Wincer DVD Release Date: Released the 10 July 2001 Usually ships in 24 hours
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Tom Selleck shows a harder side of his persona as a disillusioned Confederate who returns home in the waning days of the Civil War in this adaptation of the Elmore Leonard novel. His wife, Suzy Amis, isn't ready to forgive him for leaving his family behind for the "adventure" of war, and his children hardly remember him. Haunted by his actions in the war and caught in a power struggle in the Arizona territory, Selleck's soul-scarred survivor makes a last stand to protect the only thing left that matters to him--his homestead and his family. The film has its share of gunfights, showdowns, conspiracies, and Civil War rivalries, and even a runaway stagecoach, but its power lies in the somber exploration of how misunderstandings and conflicts tear at a marriage during such a volatile time,... More Info about this DVD Director(s): Dick Lowry DVD Release Date: Released the 17 May 2005 Usually ships in 24 hours
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I love Sam Elliott, especially as a cowboy and this has always been a favorite of mine. I was just waiting for it to come out on DVD to replace my VHS version. My heros have always been cowboys. More Info about this DVD Director(s): Reynaldo Villalobos DVD Release Date: Released the 17 May 2005 Usually ships in 24 hours
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When the Western slipped into theatrical oblivion in the late 1970s, many of the best examples of the genre began appearing as made-for-television films. After the success of The Sacketts, from the Louis L'Amour novel, producers quickly reunited stars Tom Selleck and Sam Elliott in another fine adaptation of a L'Amour book, The Shadow Riders. As brothers Mac and Dal Traven, sporting blue and gray uniforms, respectively, they wind their way home at the close of the Civil War to discover a band of confederate rebels have ravaged their town and kidnapped their sisters and brother and Dal's feisty sweetheart (Katharine Ross). With the help of their outlaw uncle (Western stalwart Ben Johnson), whom they must break out of prison, they track the guerrillas to the Gulf Coast and... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Tom Selleck - Sam Elliott Director(s): Andrew V. McLaglen DVD Release Date: Released the 18 July 2000 This item is currently not available.
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Not to be confused with Sam Raimi's flamboyantly stylized Western of the same name, this made-for-cable adaptation of the Louis L'Amour novel is a lean, taut pioneer adventure set in the wilderness of the northern Midwest. Sam Elliott, sporting his trademark bushy mustache and eyebrows so thick they keep the rains off his face, stars as the mountain man and tracker Con Vallian. Tom Conti is Scottish storekeeper Duncan McKaskel bringing his wife Susanna (Kate Capshaw) and son from Pennsylvania to a homestead in Wyoming. When a scraggly gang (led by the wonderfully sleazy Matt Clark) marks the family as an easy target, Vallian makes himself their gruff guardian angel, partly out of attraction to Susanna ("You're a handsome woman," he likes to repeat). Pride, jealousy, and rivalry make... More Info about this DVD Director(s): Robert Day DVD Release Date: Released the 01 June 2004 Usually ships in 24 hours
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