Lonesome Dove [Blu-ray]

MOVIE DESCRIPTION:

Robert Duvall, Tommy Lee Jones, Danny Glover, Anjelica Huston. The riveting Emmy Award-winning Western saga based on the novel by Larry McMurtry. Includes Part 1: Leaving," Part 2: On the Trail," Part 3: The Plains" and Part 4: Return." 2 Discs. 1989/color/6 hrs., 12 min/NR.

DVD FEATURES:

• Number of Discs: 1
• Screen: Enhanced Wide Screen Letterbox for 16x9 TV
• Audio: Dolby Digital 5.1
• Features:
  • The making of an epic
  • Original interview on the set
  • A new interview with director Simon Wincer

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

• Cast:

  
       Robert Duvall - Agustus McRae
       Tommy Lee Jones - Woodrow F. Call
       Rick Schroder - Newt
       Robert Urich - Jake Spoon
       Diane Lane - Loraina Wood
       Danny Glover - Joshua Deets
       Anjelica Huston - Clara Allen
       Frederic Forrest - Blue Duck
       Chris Cooper - July Johnson
       Barry Corbin - Roscoe Brown
       Steve Buscemi - Luke
       D.B. Sweeney - Dish
       Anjelica Huston

• Director:

  Simon Wincer

• Producer:

  Dyson Lovell

• Screenwriter:

  William D. Wittliff

• Book Author:

  Larry McMurtry

• Cinematographer:

  Douglas Milsome

• Composer (Music Score):

  Basil Poledouris

• Production Designer:

  John Frick, Cary White

• Supervising Producer:

  Michael Weisbarth

• Executive Producer:

  William D. Wittliff, Suzanne De Passe

• Costume Designer:

  Van Broughton Ramsey

• Co-Executive Producer:

  Robert Halmi, Jr.

REVIEW:

• Lonesome Dove effectively uses its television mini-series format to capture the sprawl and the scope of Larry McMurtry's source novel. The ensemble cast, led by stellar performances from Tommy Lee Jones and Robert Duvall, is uniformly strong, and director Simon Wincer skillfully keeps the proceeding moving. Long out of favor as a storytelling format, the Western made an unexpected comeback in the late 1980s and early 1990s, with such films as Clint Eastwood's Unforgiven and Kevin Costner's Dances With Wolves taking home Best Picture Oscars. Lonesome Dove was the best of several television efforts to cash in on this trend, which had vanished again by the mid-1990s. ~ Richard Gilliam, Rovi