The Sacketts
Made for TV, The Sacketts is the saga of the Sackett brothers who go west from Tennessee to start a new life in New Mexico. Sounds simple enough right? Not so fast. The film, based on a novel by Louis L’Amour, Sackestts, features a cast forty one strong, some stellar including an appearance by Louis L’Amour as . . . himself. Others include Sam Elliott, Tom Selleck, Glen Ford, Ben Johnson, Gilbert Roland, Jack Elam, L.Q. Jones, Mercedes McCambridge, Slim Pickens, Buck Taylor, and Pat Buttram just to name a few you might have heard of.
The brothers mountain man Tell (Elliott), former lawman Orrin (Selleck) and young gun Tyrel (Jeff Osterhage) go west. Their adventures bifurcate into enough plot twists and turns to produce two films if not three. Hang on if you can follow the trail. Can’t get all of it in one post.
Tell finds himself in a Texas mining camp. He kills a man named Bigelow in a gambling dispute, launching a feud with the Bigelow family. Tell hits the trail west. Meanwhile Tyrel signs on with a cattle drive, befriending cowboys Cap Roundtree (Johnson) and Tom Sunday (Ford). Orrin catches up with the drovers in Abilene.
There Orrin is captivated by the daughter of wealthy and powerful Johnathan Pritts, while Tyrel is taken with the granddaughter of Pritts’ rival Santa Fe landholder Don Luis. The four decide to gather wild cattle along the Purgatoire River on their way to Santa Fe. They catch up with Tell in the small town of Purgatoire Colorado. Cap joins Tell prospecting for gold, while the others continue on to Santa Fe. Ira Bigelow (Elam) follows with his brother Jack (Pickens) hunting Tell. With us yet?
Cap and Tell’s prospecting leads to New Mexico where the Bigelow’s and their men trap them in a cave along with a woman they have rescued. Meanwhile Orrin, Tyrel, and Sunday come across a massacred family and a thousand dollars leading to a dispute between Orrin and Sunday over what to do with the money. The dispute festers in Santa Fe when Orrin and Sunday oppose each other in an election for sheriff that falls in the face of their romantic interests and the rivalry between Pritts and Don Luis. Still with us? From here the plot gets complicated.
One thing leads to another until Don Luis dies. Tyrel guns down Sunday. Pritts is exposed for a killing he ordered. Cap and Tell show up in Santa Fe followed by the Bigelow’s and a shootout the Sackett’s walk away from. The End. Parts of this film have been edited for review.
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The brothers mountain man Tell (Elliott), former lawman Orrin (Selleck) and young gun Tyrel (Jeff Osterhage) go west. Their adventures bifurcate into enough plot twists and turns to produce two films if not three. Hang on if you can follow the trail. Can’t get all of it in one post.
Tell finds himself in a Texas mining camp. He kills a man named Bigelow in a gambling dispute, launching a feud with the Bigelow family. Tell hits the trail west. Meanwhile Tyrel signs on with a cattle drive, befriending cowboys Cap Roundtree (Johnson) and Tom Sunday (Ford). Orrin catches up with the drovers in Abilene.
There Orrin is captivated by the daughter of wealthy and powerful Johnathan Pritts, while Tyrel is taken with the granddaughter of Pritts’ rival Santa Fe landholder Don Luis. The four decide to gather wild cattle along the Purgatoire River on their way to Santa Fe. They catch up with Tell in the small town of Purgatoire Colorado. Cap joins Tell prospecting for gold, while the others continue on to Santa Fe. Ira Bigelow (Elam) follows with his brother Jack (Pickens) hunting Tell. With us yet?
Cap and Tell’s prospecting leads to New Mexico where the Bigelow’s and their men trap them in a cave along with a woman they have rescued. Meanwhile Orrin, Tyrel, and Sunday come across a massacred family and a thousand dollars leading to a dispute between Orrin and Sunday over what to do with the money. The dispute festers in Santa Fe when Orrin and Sunday oppose each other in an election for sheriff that falls in the face of their romantic interests and the rivalry between Pritts and Don Luis. Still with us? From here the plot gets complicated.
One thing leads to another until Don Luis dies. Tyrel guns down Sunday. Pritts is exposed for a killing he ordered. Cap and Tell show up in Santa Fe followed by the Bigelow’s and a shootout the Sackett’s walk away from. The End. Parts of this film have been edited for review.
Next Week: The Villain
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