Lonesome Dove 1989
- Drama, Western
- 90 min episodes
- 1 season
- 4 episodes
- Ended
- TV-14
The epic film as big as the west.
A pair of longtime friends and former Texas Rangers crave one last adventure before hanging-up their spurs. After stealing over a thousand head of cattle from rustlers south of the border, they recruit an unlikely crew of hands to drive the herd 3,000 miles north to the grasslands of Montana.
- Animal harm
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Earnest, classical in form, epic and grave.
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- intimateepic
- gravecomic
- contemporarynostalgic
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Cast
- Robert DuvallAugustus "Gus" McCrae
- Tommy Lee JonesWoodrow F. Call
- Diane LaneLorena Wood Parker
- Robert UrichJake Spoon
- D. B. SweeneyDish Boggett
- Danny GloverJoshua Deets
- Ricky SchroderNewt Dobbs
- Glenne HeadlyElmira Boot Johnson
- Steve BuscemiLuke
- Anjelica HustonClara Forsythe Allen
Crew
- Larry McMurtryNovel
- Douglas MilsomeDirector of Photography
- Dyson LovellProducer
- Robert Halmi Jr.Producer
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Seasons
- Miniseries4 eps · 1989
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