Monday Movies is back! This time around you'll see us highlighting one movie per month, along with
a few thoughts on the movie, and buy links (if applicable) in case you want to watch it for yourself.
a few thoughts on the movie, and buy links (if applicable) in case you want to watch it for yourself.
Louis L'Amour's
The Shadow Riders
starring
Tom Selleck ■ Sam Elliot ■ Ben Johnson ■ Katharine Ross
(1982)
They rode against rebels and gunrunners, renegades and thieves!
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The Civil War is over and the Traven brothers are going home. But what Mac (Tom Selleck) and Dal (Sam Elliott) find upon their arrival is a town ravaged by Confederate rebels who've refused to surrender. Swearing to fight the Yankees to the bitter end, the guerillas have kidnapped the Travens' younger sisters - as well as Dal's sweetheart, Kate (Katharine Ross) and plan to sell them to a brothel in Mexico to raise money for guns and bullets. Determined to rescue their loved ones, Mac and Dal bust their Uncle Black Jack (Ben Johnson) out of prison and head south of the border, where they aim to finish a war they thought had already ended.
It's been a lot of years since I read The Shadow Riders by Louis L'Amour, I think I might have still been a teenager, so I really don't remember a lot about it except that the storyline was similar but way different. However, I watch the movie every year or two. Hey, you got Sam Elliott and Tom Selleck, so....
I actually haven't seen much from either actor as a lot of what they've done is outside of my movie comfort zone. Interestingly, I think nearly all of the ones I have watched, not counting any animated voice-overs, have been Louis L'Amour stories. Hmmm.... Anyway, this is a fun cowboy movie with some funny one-liners, some of which I regularly quote in real life, and Ben Johnson's senior delinquent cowboy character is a real hoot. The movie is fairly suggestive but if you are used to today's content standards it won't even faze you in the slightest. If you enjoy the golden age of westerns this movie hearkens back to that time, with greats from the era such as Ben Johnson and Harry Carey Jr. It's not quite what I would call a classic, I am so NOT ready for the 80s to be 'classic', but I think it could be with a little more time... 
100 Minutes
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Principal Cast
Tom Selleck ... Mac Traven
Sam Elliott ... Dal Traven Dominique Dunne ... Sissy Traven Ben Johnson ... Uncle 'Black Jack' Traven Scanlon Gail ... Yankee Officer Geoffrey Lewis ... Major Cooper Ashbury Jeff Osterhage ... Jesse Traven Gene Evans ... Colonel Holiday Hammond, Gunrunner Katharine Ross ... Kate Connery / Sister Katherine R.G. Armstrong ... Sheriff Miles Gillette Marshall R. Teague ... Lieutenant Butler Ben Fuhrman ... Devol Jane Greer ... Ma Traven Harry Carey Jr. ... Pa Traven Natalie May ... Heather Traven
Filming Location(s)
Railtown 1897 State Historic Park - Jamestown, Calif.
Sonora, Calif. Columbia State Historic Park, Columbia, Calif. Santa Cruz, Calif.
Quotes
Mac Traven: Excuse me. I seem to have caught you in the middle of something.
Outlaw: We're just havin' a little fun. I mean, up till now, it's just been swattin' moskeeters. Now we're gonna hang us a Reb. Mac Traven: Get 'im down. Outlaw: What for? You're a Yankee aintcha? Mac Traven: That's right. Outlaw: Well this man's a Reb! A damned Reb! Why you botherin'? Mac Traven: Usually wouldn't. Cept this one happens to be my brother. [Mac cocks his pistol and points it at the outlaw] Mac Traven: Get him down. Mac Traven: I don't know nothin' bout Mexico. Dal? Dal Traven: Not much. Mac Traven: Jesse? [Jesse shakes his head] Dal Traven: I know someone who does. Jack Traven. Mac Traven: You are talkin' about Uncle Black Jack Traven? Dal Traven: Yessir. Mac Traven: Well, big brother, you know there are some people who call him scoundrel. [Dal Grins] Mac Traven: Some might even call him an outlaw. [Dal grins bigger] Mac Traven: And we all know he's a rogue. Sides, we don't know where to find 'im. Dal Traven: Converse County Jail. Mac Traven: [Shrugs] What are we waitin' for? |
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