Lonesome Dove: A Promise Between Two Men

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In the Emmy Award-winning miniseries Lonesome Dove, the character of Woodrow Call (Tommy Lee Jones) makes a mythic an epic journey from Montana to haul the body of his dead friend, Gus McCrae (Robert Duvall) back for burial in Texas.
Augustus’s name wasn’t on the sign, though it was his grave. No one might ever realize that it was his grave. Call walked back up the hill and got out his knife, thinking he might carve the name on the other side of the board, but the old board was so dry and splintery that he felt he might destroy it altogether if he worked on it much. Finally he just scratched A.M. on the other side of the board. It wasn’t much, and it wouldn’t last, he knew. Somebody would just get irritated at not finding the livery stable and bust the sign up anyway. In any case, Gus was where he had decided he wanted to be, and they had both known many fine men who lay in unmarked graves.
--Larry McMurtry's "Lonesome Dove" novel
The network was concerned that once Gus died the audience wouldn’t be sufficiently interested in Call to watch him hauling the body to Texas. They needn’t have worried.
--Dyson Lovell
#woodrowcall #lonesomedoverobertduvall
Lonesome Dove is a 1985 Western novel by American writer Larry McMurtry. It is the first published book of the Lonesome Dove series and the third installment in the series chronologically. It was a bestseller and won the 1986 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. In 1989, it was adapted as a TV miniseries starring Tommy Lee Jones and Robert Duvall, which won both critical and popular acclaim. McMurtry went on to write a sequel, Streets of Laredo (1993), and two prequels, Dead Man's Walk (1995) and Comanche Moon (1997), all of which were also adapted as TV series. This six-hour miniseries, based on a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Larry McMurtry, revitalized both the miniseries and Western genres, both of which had been considered dead for several years. Lonesome Dove earned 18 Emmy nominations and inspired a pair of miniseries sequels as well as two attempts at an ongoing television series.
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[@Deus-Too]

This is without a doubt, one of the most well-done westerns ever made! With the best cast as well! 🇺🇸👍

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Couldn't agree more!

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It is the best.

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agree,the best western and movie

[@whyey]

I think I have one friend that would do that for me!!!

[@Larrymh07]

I love the solitude implied at the beginning of this clip.

[@nickrandles1102]

I guess this will teach me to be more careful about what I promise in the future 😭

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Thank you all for my favorite film

[@SueProv]

I missed this one. What an amazing journey. Thanks Ad Vids. Happy Thanksgiving

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Same to you! Glad to hear from you, again.