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Movie Reviews of Conagher
Movie Review: A Western Classic
Summary: 5 Stars
One of the top five westerns of all-time. I am so glad the original version has now been released on DVD !! DO NOT BUY THE VHS VERSION--IT HAS BEEN EDITED AND SOME OF THE BEST SCENES/CHARACTERS CUT. Great professional cast. Check out the detailed production and supporting cast like Jeff Meyer as "Beaver" Sampson's -- his outfit and hat---feel like you stepped back a 150 years.Movie Review: MR. AND MRS. ELLIOTT SHINE IN L'AMOUR CLASSIC
Summary: 5 Stars
While Sam Elliott has become (along with, perhaps, Tom Selleck) the personification of the Louis L'Amour screen hero, it's especially nice in CONAGHER to see him opposite one of the first ladies of western cinema, Katherine Ross. It's especially nice when one remembers that Ms. Ross is also Mrs. Elliott in real life.
The two provide a power-packed performance in bringing Louis L'Amour's classic western tale to life. CONAGHER is the story of an honorable cowhand who almost single-handedly takes on a gang of marauders bent on doing all the damage they can to everyone they meet. Yes, a classic battle of good against evil ensues but it's done sincerely and lacks some of the schmaltz that surfaces in similar western sagas.
Add to Elliott and Ross an all-star western cast including Dub and Buck Taylor, Barry Corbin and Ken Curtis and you have an enduring western classic.
THE HORSEMAN
Movie Review: Top Notch Western!
Summary: 5 Stars
Outside of the Duke's "Big Jake", Conagher is my favorite western as it is done right. The country is beautiful and Sam Elliot and his beautiful wife Katherine Ross made this movie out of deep respect for Louie L'Amour. This film captures the loney life of ranchers and cowboys in the old west. This is also the last picture that Ken Curtis (Festus from Gunsmoke) ever made.
As mentioned in another review, the line "It's a hard country kid" is probably THE classic line of all cowboy movies.
One strange thing concerning the ending though, in the book Conagher finds the remains of Mr. Teal, along with the gold he was taking to buy cattle, and on the outside of the Conagher VHS box there is a picture of Conagher looking at the bones of Mr. Teal, but this scene never made the movie? That would have give more closure but I guess it was cut to fit in to a TNT time slot.
Movie Review: Conagher-The Best
Summary: 5 Stars
I happen to like all of Sam Elliott's movies, but this one is the best he has ever done!
Louis Alford
Movie Review: "You couldn't hurt Conagher with an axe."
Summary: 5 Stars
Format: Color
Studio: Warner Home Video
Video Release Date: May 11, 1994
Cast:
Sam Elliott
Katherine Ross
Gavin O'Herlihy
Daniel Quinn
Barry Corbin
Ken Curtis
Cody Braun
Anndi McAfee
Conagher was written by Louis L'Amour (Lamoore) about life in the West around the end of the 19th century, with trouble with the Indians, rustlers, and a widow woman (Katherine Ross) tryimg to raise her children on a hard scrabble farm. Conagher comes to their aid.
L'Amour was a student of Western history. He understood the common man, having worked as a cowboy, circus roustabout, merchant seaman, boxer and served in the U.S.Navy. He was also a prolific writer of Western fiction, among other things.
This is not the first L'Amour story that Elliott has played in. He also performed as Tell Sackett in The Sacketts, which was an amalgamation of several of Louis's stories in that series on that family.
This story of Conagher was one of his good stories, which you will find typical of L'Amour's writing...good entertainment.
Joseph (Joe) Pierre
author of Handguns and Freedom...their care and maintenance
and other books