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28/09/1982 Western, TV Movie 1h 36m
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Sometimes you have to start a war to finish one.

Overview

After starring in "The Sacketts", Tom Selleck and Sam Elliott team up again but this time as Mac and Dal Traven, in a movie based on a classic Louis L'Amour novel. They are brothers, who meet up at the end of the Civil War fighting on opposite sides. They go home only to find their family in dire need and their sisters and brother kidnapped by ruthless raiders. They set out to rescue their family.

  1. Andrew V. McLaglen

    Director

Top billed cast

  1. Tom Selleck

    Mac Traven

  2. Sam Elliott

    Dal Traven

  3. Ben Johnson

    Uncle 'Black Jack' Traven

  4. Geoffrey Lewis

    Major Cooper Ashbury, Comanchero Leader

  5. Jeff Osterhage

    Jesse Traven

  6. Gene Evans

    Colonel Holiday Hammond, Gunrunner

  7. Katharine Ross

    Kate Connery / Sister Katherine

  8. Dominique Dunne

    Sissy Traven

  9. Scanlon Gail

    Yankee Officer

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Reviews

A review by John Chard
Written by John Chard on 2017-01-02
The Traven Brothers.

The Shadow Riders is directed by Andrew V. McLaglen and adapted to screenplay by Jim Byrnes from the novel written by Louis L'Amour. It stars Tom Selleck, Sam Elliott, Katharine Ross, Dominique Dunne, Ben Johnson and Geoffrey Lewis. Music is by Jerrold Immel and cinematography by Jack Whitman.

A CBS TV production, The Shadow Riders has Selleck (Mac Traven) and Elliott (Dal Traven) as brothers, who even though they fought on different sides in the Civil War, there fondness for each other still exists. With the war now officially ended, the brothers meet up and head fo...read the rest
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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$0.00

Revenue
$0.00

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