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Lonesome Dove
TV Series (1989)
This Western adventure story is about 2 retired Texas Rangers “Robert Duvall” who plays “Augustus ‘Gus” McCrae” and Tommy Lee Jones who plays "Captain Woodrow F. Call”. The two very close friends decide to head to Montana and begin their own Cattle Ranch On the way on their journey they incur many problems and lose some of the ranch hands they had
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01x04 Return Aired: Feb. 08, 1989Conclusion. A tragedy in the Montana Territory exacts a painful promise from Call (Tommy Lee Jones) that takes him on a haunting mission back … [continue reading]
Series Info
Type:
Scripted
Premiered:
Feb. 05, 1989
Status:
Canceled/Ended
Runtime:
480 min.
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- Principal photography lasted for 16 weeks at 6 days a week, and encompassed 89 speaking parts, 1000 extras, 30 wranglers, 100 horses, 90 crew and 1400 cattle. Some scenes were so complex that…
[show]Principal photography lasted for 16 weeks at 6 days a week, and encompassed 89 speaking parts, 1000 extras, 30 wranglers, 100 horses, 90 crew and 1400 cattle. Some scenes were so complex that they were shot from 6 different cameras at once.
[hide] - Augustus McCrae's (Robert Duvall) pistol in the film is a Colt Walker 1847 revolver with a conversion to fire metallic cartridges. Cartridge conversions are commonly done to percussion…
[show]Augustus McCrae's (Robert Duvall) pistol in the film is a Colt Walker 1847 revolver with a conversion to fire metallic cartridges. Cartridge conversions are commonly done to percussion revolvers in films because firing black powder is potentially dangerous and using metallic blank cartridges is both safer and cheaper to use. While cartridge conversions were popular in the actual old west, they typically allowed the guns to be easier reloaded, while guns used in films try to make them less noticeable to fool the audience into thinking they ARE percussion guns.
[hide] - Two scenes in the miniseries are based on actual incidents that occurred during a cattle drive from Texas to Montana: 1. Some cowboys asked "how far is it to Up-North?", believing it to be…
[show]Two scenes in the miniseries are based on actual incidents that occurred during a cattle drive from Texas to Montana: 1. Some cowboys asked "how far is it to Up-North?", believing it to be place, not a direction. 2. During one of the river crossings, the cowboys stripped off their clothes and rode the horses naked. Both episodes are related by Teddy "Blue" Abbott, a 19th-century Texas cowboy who participated in a cattle drive from Texas to Montana. Abbott remained in Montana, married the daughter of cattle baron Granville Stuart and become a relatively prosperous rancher. He wrote a book of memories called "We Pointed Them North".
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