Lonesome dove [videorecording (DVD)] / a Motown Production in association with Wittliff/Pangaea and RHI Entertainment, Inc. ; produced by Dyson Lovell ; teleplay by Bill Wittliff ; directed by Simon Wincer.
Title from container. Based on the novel by Larry McMurtry. Originally produced as a television miniseries in 1989. Special features: "The making of an epic:" 50-minute behind-the-scenes featurette; original interviews on the set with Tommy Lee Jones, Robert Duvall, and the rest of the cast; a new interview with director Simon Wincer ; "Blueprints of a masterpiece:" original sketches and concept drawings featurette; interview with Pulitzer Prize winning author Larry McMurtry. Robert Duvall, Tommy Lee Jones, Danny Glover, Diane Lane, Robert Urich, Frederic Forrest, D.B. Sweeney, Ricky Schroder, Anjelica Huston.
Summary:
Augustus McCrae and Woodrow call, longtime friends and former Texas Rangers, steal over a thousand head of cattle from rustlers south of the border and recruit an unlikely crew of hands to drive the herd 3,000 miles north to Montana.
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