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Summary: A great Louis L'Amour film adaptation
Review: "The Shadow Riders" has all the grit, matter-of-fact speech, incredible landscapes and action of a great Louis L'Amour book. Tom Selleck, Sam Elliot and Jeff Osterhage also starred in "The Sacketts" in 1979, and do just as fine a job in this movie as that one.The part that will surprise you is how strong the female lead role is. Katharine Ross does an excellent job as the fiesty Kate Connery, the love interest of Dal Travern (Sam Elliot). She had as good a character and as much screen time as many of today's heriones -- a highly unusual circumstance in the early 80s and certainly unusual for the genre. "The Shadow Riders" has a great mix of romance, action, humor and good old fashioned Western elements. This mix makes the film appealing to a much wider audience than just Western fans or Louis L'Amour fans -- although they will come away thrilled.
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Summary: A great Louis L'Amour film adaptation
Review: "The Shadow Riders" has all the grit, matter-of-fact speech, incredible landscapes and action of a great Louis L'Amour book. Tom Selleck, Sam Elliot and Jeff Osterhage also starred in "The Sacketts" in 1979, and do just as fine a job in this movie as that one. The part that will surprise you is how strong the female lead role is. Katharine Ross does an excellent job as the fiesty Kate Connery, the love interest of Dal Travern (Sam Elliot). She had as good a character and as much screen time as many of today's heriones -- a highly unusual circumstance in the early 80s and certainly unusual for the genre. "The Shadow Riders" has a great mix of romance, action, humor and good old fashioned Western elements. This mix makes the film appealing to a much wider audience than just Western fans or Louis L'Amour fans -- although they will come away thrilled.
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Summary: Also Ran
Review: An earlier Tom Selleck movie; long winded and boring; you'll enjoy Quigley, Crossfire Trail and Monte Walsh much better.
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Summary: Good Action and Humor
Review: Even though this movie was made in 1982, I just saw it for the first time. The people involved gave good performances. A good story line went along with good action and humorous scenes. A good movie for fans of Tom Selleck and Sam Elliott.
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Summary: Don't waste your time
Review: Good westerns are hard to find these days and this one is as bad as they get. Riders of the Purple Sage (1996) with Ed Harris is for instance, much, much better; also Open Range which should be released soon on DVD.
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Summary: Not The Best....read on
Review: I was kinda disappointed with this movie. I purchased it after seeing "Quigley Down Under" and "Crossfire Trail". Which were both excellent to the extreme. I found this movie rather boring and hard to watch even. The plot is very thin. My suggestion is rent it and try it before buying.
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Summary: Can't Ride this Pony
Review: I'm a Selleck fan and hold Elliot to be a close second in the realm of movie and TV cowboys. And I think that Ross is about as sweet as eye candy can get. But, try as they all might, they just can't get this horse to go.
The plot is ludicrous, the pace is incredibily uneven, the bad guys are caricatures, and, worst of all, this viewer just didn't care if any of the characters lived or died. Actually, if they had died, the whole thing would have sooner come to a merciful end.
Selleck is OK, Elliot scowls a lot, and (forgive me) Ross does the worst acting of a commendable career.
As others have said -- see Monte Walsh or Riders of the Purple Sage. Just shoot his horse.
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Summary: Not as Good as you would think!
Review: I'm sorry to have to say this movie was slow moving & boring at times. The story line was good, but not filled in with enough action, as you would expect a western to have. I think this story would have been better served as a hour TV special, removing all the useless parts that made it boring at times. This review is not against the actors, they did a good job with what they had... they didn't have much to work with is all. Buy another Tom Selleck western, he has made many other good ones. Quigley Down Under... one of his best!
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Summary: If you truly love westerns and their history, this is fun!
Review: The Shadow Riders is the very epitome of western old-school. I'm not talking about the defeatist late-sixties, early seventies westerns, but the ones made from the thirties to the mid sixties, the ones that created and fueled the dominant genre in American film for thirty years! This is the kind of western John Wayne or Jimmy Stewart would be comfortable in. To be honest, the tone is such that Roy Rogers or Gene Autry would be too. It's just that kind of movie, a careful balance of enough seriousness to keep you interested, but enough fun to keep you entertained. And it's served up by one of the grand masters of western directing. In a lot of ways, that mekes this something of an elligy to a piece of Americana that was already dead when this TV western was filmed. All in all, a nice job. A very good western that holds up well against Tom Selleck's other TV westerns, those made in more modern times for cable.
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Summary: Misinformation
Review: This is one which I did not even get to see. it is described as an all-regions DVD but is probably an Region 1 coded DVD. If you are outside the USA and Canada, don't make the mistake of buying this one unless you have a multi-regions player. I'll see it once I get a muti-regions player.
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