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I just loved this movie so much! It has a all-star cast of outstanding actors! It is about a tough, but gentle, honorable cowboy, who while riding the range, finds these love notes tied to tumbleweeds. He wonders about the woman who is writing the love notes, and wonders what she looks like but, he does not know that he has already met her!
Conagher is a good man, who tries to live this life the right way, but trouble always seems to find him, but Conagher has a very, very, good way of taking care of the bad guys! Sam Elliot's real life wife (Katherine Ross) plays Evie in the movie! Sam Elliot is one of my handsome, favorite cowboys, he has such compelling eyes, and I love his deep, velvet voice!
I highly recommend this movie, it is wonderful, and it is something different, and romantic, but yet still a very good western!
One of my favorite scenes in the movie, was when after the cowboys delivered the horses, the cowboys spend the night with a little tough, old man who is a awesome actor, who said that they could sleep on the floor, I have seen him in a lot of westerns, and he was always one of my favorites! All the actors in this movie did a outstanding job! It was very well done! MOVIE IDEA: Movie people, please make more westerns like this one!!
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This was a solid lower-key Louis L'Amour-written western, meaning a little bit less action than the normal film of its genre. The action scenes they did have in here were short, too.
This is mainly a movie/DVD with several stories weaved in it: 1 - Cowhands slowly being sifted out as the times change and they are no longer needed; 2 - traitors among the main group, men who go to a competing gang of rustlers; 3 - a story of a lonely widow who has to take care of two kids after he husband disappears (killed).
Katharine Ross is the mother ("Evie Teale") who turns cook at a lonely stagecoach stop that also is being eliminated. She is a good woman, and it's nice to see the female star of "Butch Cassidy And the Sundance Kid" still looking good out there is the prairie over 20 years later.
Also refreshing to see was her young boy "Laban," one of the nicest, most respectful kids I've ever seen on film: the exact opposite of the many brats I've seen on film in the last quarter of the 20th century. Cody Braun was excellent as the son, and, that's the only movie role he ever played.
The man "Evie" eventually falls for is the hero of the film, "Conagher," played by Sam Elliott. If anyone in the modern era of films ever looked like he was born to play a cowboy, it has to be Elliott. He has the weathered looks and the voice that go perfectly with westerns.
Overall, this is another beautifully-photographed, nice story and a real "keeper" for those who love a good fim of this genre.
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I've liked this movie's storyline ever since first seeing it on television several years ago. A couple years later I found a "previously viewed" VHS copy at a local video store but was disapointed in the image quality. I chalked it up as the tape being worn out. When I saw the DVD was available I quickly purchased it, certain the image quality would be there. However I was again disapointed. I recomend the story to anyone who loves Westerns. It's wonderful and its stars bring a lot to the production. Just don't expect first rate image quality.
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When the subject of best westerns ever made is mentioned, Conagher never gets any recognition. Maybe the reason is it never made the big screen. But not so long ago during the good ol' 90's the TNT network produced some of the best television features in the history of prime time from biblical epics to shows based on Louis Lamour like this one. One thing these features had in common were high production values, good direction and some of the finest ensembles of actors found in television. Conagher in particular gets my attention because the story is outstanding. You get gritty hard edged western action from Sam Elliott who is one of the most authentic western actors you'll ever see. You even have a fine romance with the frontier woman played by Katherine Ross (the tumbleweeds). I don't know why TNT quit making this kind of feature.Maybe its cheaper to make legal dramas.
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This is a fine movie from a veteran couple. The notes on the tumbleweeds, the romote western desert scenery, the stuggles, and the triumphs are classic cowboy poetry put to film. Look for a great old timer in this movie. Of Course, this is a Louis L'Amour story. It is written right and filmed right.
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