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Robert Duvall as Augustus McCrae
Tommy Lee Jones as Woodrow F. Call
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Lonesome Dove is the story of Captain Augustus "Gus" McCrae and Captain Woodrow F. Call, who are retired Texas Rangers, and a cattle drive from Texas to Montanna. The retired Rangers are leading a dull existence, when a Ranger from the 'good old days'(Jake Spoon)shows up. He convinces them to start-up a cattle drive with stories of potential adventures and an appeal to them that the Old West is vanishing and that the cattle drive would be a good way to see it before it is completely gone.
Lonesome Dove was made for TV as a continuing mini-series and was based on the Pulitzer Prize winning novel by Larry McMurtry. In 1971, McMurty had hoped that that John Wayme would play Woodrow Call, James Stewart would be Gus McCrae and Henry Fonda would be Jake Spoon. Ten years later McMurtry bought the script back and wrote the book.
The TV production won six Emmies with quite a few more nominations as well. It is considered by critics as one of the best Westerns made by Hollywood. Highly recommended. The story has depth and the actors portray their characters believably. It is a good account of life in the Old West and has plenty of action. **************************************************************************
Here r a few lines from the movie....
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Joshua Deets: [in the Wyoming Badlands] What we doin' up here, Captain? This ain't our land.
Gus McCrae: Woodrow is determined to be the first man to graze cattle in Montana, even if it kills all of us.
Joshua Deets: Don't seem right, Captain. A man ought not to leave his land and his people.
Woodrow Call: I hate rude behavior in a man. I won't tolerate it.
Woodrow Call: We come to this place to make money. They wasn't nothin' about fun in the deal.
Gus McCrae: What are you talkin' about? You don't even like money. You like money even less than you like fun, if that's possible.
Woodrow Call: You ever get tired o' loafin' I reckon you can get a job waitin' on tables.
Gus McCrae: Oh, I had a job waitin' tables once. S' on a riverboat. I wasn't no older than Newt, there, but I hadda give it up.
Newt: How come?
Gus McCrae: Well I was, too young and pretty and the whores wouldn't leave me alone.
Gus McCrae: I'm just tryin' to keep everything in balance, Woodrow. You do more work than you got to, so it's my obligation to do less.
Gus McCrae: Well, I'm glad I ain't scared to be lazy
Newt: Gus, are you sure the Captain is my father?
Gus McCrae: Yep, he is.
Newt: He ain't never mentioned it.
Gus McCrae: Well, Woodrow ain't much of a mentioner.
Clara Allen: [referring to Newt] Did you give that boy your name before you left Montana?
Woodrow Call: I gave him my horse.
Clara Allen: [scornfully] But not your name.
Woodrow Call: I value the horse more than my name.
Jake Spoon: A man that will talk to a pig ain't no better than a farmer.
Gus McCrae: I expected you to own a bank or at least a whorehouse by now Jake. It seems life has been a disappointment to both of us.
Jake Spoon: That might be so, but by God, I ain't never said a word to a pig.
Jake Spoon: Well, hell, boys. I'd damn sight rather be hung by my friends than by a bunch o' damn strangers. Well, adios, boys. Hope you won't hold it against me. Never meant no harm.
[spurs his horse, hanging himself before Gus does it]
[Gus refuses to have his leg amputated knowing he will die if he doesn't]
Woodrow Call: What do you want legs for anyway? You don't like to do nothing but sit on the porch and drink whiskey!
Gus McCrae: I like to kick a pig every once in a while. How would I do that?
Blue Duck: [to Gus] You ever bring that tongue of yours north of the Canadian River, I'll cut it off and feed it to my wolf pups.
Woodrow Call: [riding in San Antonio] Things sure have changed since the last time I was here. It's all growed up.
Gus McCrae: Of course it's growed up, Woodrow. We killed all the Indians and bandits so the bankers could move in.
Woodrow Call: Only a fool would want the Indians back.
Gus McCrae: Has it ever occurred to you, Woodrow; that all the work we done was for the bankers? Hell, we killed off everybody made this country interestin'!
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Lonesome Dove...link for the video....at Amazon...not trying to sell anything...
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