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Format:
Video disc
Title:
Lonesome dove
Uniform Title:
Lonesome Dove (Television program : 1989)
ISBN:
9781594450792
Edition:
2-disc collector's ed.
Publication Information:
Santa Monica, Calif. : Genius Entertainment, ©2008.
Physical Description:
2 videodiscs (373 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
General Note:
Based on the novel by Larry McMurtry.

Restricted to classroom instructional showings and home use only. No student/club showings.

Originally produced as a television miniseries in 1989.

Special features: "The making of an epic:" 50-minute behind-the-scenes featurette; on location with director Simon Wincer; 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; Lonesome Dove montage
Contents:
Part 1. Leaving -- Part 2. On the trail -- Part 3. The Plains -- Part 4. Return.
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.
Reading Level:
Not rated.
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