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Pages in category "Films based on works by Louis L'Amour" The following 15 pages are in this category, out of 15 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
Louis Dearborn L'Amour (/ ˈ l uː i l ə ˈ m ʊər /; né LaMoore; March 22, 1908 – June 10, 1988) was an American novelist and short story writer.His books consisted primarily of Western novels, though he called his work "frontier stories".
The film opens with the Teale family moving west on a wagon into Indian Territory. They reach their home, and plan to go into the cattle business. The father, Jacob, rides out to procure the cattle, promising to return in a month. However, he is killed along the way when his horse falls over on him and he bleeds to death internally.
The Sacketts is a 1979 American made-for-television Western miniseries directed by Robert Totten and starring Sam Elliott, Tom Selleck, Jeff Osterhage, and Glenn Ford.Based on the novels The Daybreakers (1960) and Sackett (1961) by Louis L'Amour, the film recounts the story of the Sackett brothers in 1869 who leave their Tennessee home and start a new life together in Santa Fe.
The Quick and the Dead is a 1987 American made-for-television Western film based on the 1973 novel by Louis L'Amour, directed by Robert Day and starring Sam Elliott, Tom Conti, Kate Capshaw, Kenny Morrison and Matt Clark.
The book Hondo was a novelization of the film also written by L'Amour, and published by Gold Medal Books in 1953. [3] The supporting cast features Ward Bond , James Arness and Leo Gordon . The shoot went over schedule, and Farrow had to leave the production, as he was contractually obligated to direct another movie.
In June 1968 he announced he had bought the screen rights to another L'Amour novel, Catlow. [4] The script was written by Scott Finch who had written Shalako. [5] In June 1970, L'Amour said the film would be the first of five made from his novels starring Stephen Boyd, the others being Down the Long Hills, Flint, Radigan, and Hanging Woman ...
Shaughnessy: The Iron Marshal (aka Louis L'Amour's Shaughnessy) is a 1996 American Western television film aired on CBS. It is based on the 1979 Louis L'Amour novel, Shaughnessy . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The movie starred Matthew Settle as title character Tommy Shaughnessy, also starring Bo Hopkins , Stuart Whitman , [ 3 ] Linda Kozlowski , and Michael Jai ...