Lonesome Dove
Lonesome Dove is a 1989 American epic Western adventure television miniseries directed by Simon Wincer. It is a four-part adaptation of the 1985 novel of the same name by Larry McMurtry and is the first installment in the Lonesome Dove series. The novel was based upon a screenplay by Peter Bogdanovich and McMurtry. The miniseries stars an ensemble cast headed by Robert Duvall as Augustus McCrae and Tommy Lee Jones as Woodrow Call. The series was originally broadcast by CBS from February 5 to 8, 1989, drawing a huge viewing audience, earning numerous awards, and reviving both the television Western and the miniseries.
Plot
In the late 1870s, Captain Augustus "Gus" McCrae and Captain Woodrow F. Call, two famous former Texas Rangers, run a livery in the small, dusty Texas border town of Lonesome Dove along the Rio Grande. Gus is an upbeat womanizer and twice a widower, and Call is a strict, stoic workaholic. Working with them are Joshua Deets, a black tracker and scout from their Ranger days, Pea Eye Parker, another former Ranger who works hard but isn't very bright, and Bolívar, a retired Mexican bandit who is their cook. Also living with them is Newt Dobbs, a 17-year-old whose mother was a prostitute named Maggie and whose father may be any man on the ranch, save for Gus who secretly knows who Newt's true father is.
Cast
- Anjelica Huston
- Barry Corbin
- Barry Tubb
- Bradley Gregg
- Bud Shrake
- Chris Cooper
- Danny Glover
- Diane Lane
- Frederic Forrest
- Frederick Coffin
- Gavan O'Herlihy
- Glenne Headly
- James McMurtry
- Jordan Lund
- Jorge Martínez de Hoyos
- Kevin O'Morrison
- Lanny Flaherty
- Margo Martindale
- Matthew Cowles
- Michael Tylo
- Nina Siemaszko
- O-Lan Jones
- Ricky Schroder
- Robert Duvall
- Robert Urich
- Steve Buscemi
- Timothy Scott
- Tommy Lee Jones
- Tony Epper
- William Sanderson