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Sunday, January 20, 2019

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     The Shadow Riders
1982  NR  WESTERN/TELEVISION  1h 36min
CAST— Tom Selleck, Sam Elliott, Ben Johnson, Geoffrey Lewis, Jeffrey Osterhage, Gene Evans, Katherine Ross
MUSIC— Jerrold Immel  DIRECTOR— Andrew V. McLaglen  BASED ON— The Shadow Riders (novel), by Louis L’Amour

     Inauspicious Western telefilm that starts out well but meanders along the way. Tom Selleck and Sam Elliott star as two brothers (one blue, the other gray) whose paths collide after the Civil War. They soon learn that their sisters, Elliott’s girl Katherine Ross and many others have been kidnapped by renegades, former rebels who long to see the South restored to its former glory. The rebels plan to buy back that glory with the money they make by selling their captives into slavery. Selleck and Elliott will have none of this. They set out to free the captives and just maybe reignite the spark between Elliott and Ross. A forgettable experience (you probably won’t even remember the fun finale), though entertaining for the duration.
OUR RATING— **

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