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Jan 17, 2003 · Monte Walsh: Directed by Simon Wincer. With Tom Selleck, Isabella Rossellini, Keith Carradine, George Eads. Wyoming, 1892: Monte's been cowboy for ranchers all his life but he's no longer young and big business is taking over the ranches.
Monte Walsh is a 2003 American Western television film directed by Simon Wincer and starring Tom Selleck, Isabella Rossellini, and Keith Carradine. It was adapted from Jack Schaefer 's 1963 novel Monte Walsh. This film is a remake of the 1970 Monte Walsh film that starred Lee Marvin.
Monte Walsh is the debut feature of cameraman-turned-director William A.Fraker. It stars Lee Marvin (Monte Walsh) & Jack Palance (Chet Rollins) as two ageing cowboys who find that the era of the cowpoke is coming to an end; and that work for them is now very hard to come by.
Monte Walsh is a 1970 American Western film directed by cinematographer William A. Fraker (his directorial debut) starring Lee Marvin, Jeanne Moreau and Jack Palance. The name "Monte Walsh" is taken from the title of a 1963 western novel by Jack Schaefer, but the film has little to do with the plot of Schaefer's book.
Monte Walsh (1970) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
MONTE WALSH BY Jack Schaefer chronicles the life and times of a man who makes his life as a cowboy working for the Slash Y outfit, and begins with Monte leaving home as a young boy after escaping a beating from his stepfather after injuring a prized stallion he wasn’t supposed to ride.
William A. Fraker's relatively little-known Monte Walsh (1970) somehow fell between the cracks of The Wild Bunch and Robert Altman's elegiac McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971), but it's still an impressive film that benefits greatly from Fraker's experience as an A-list cinematographer.
And so Monte Walsh, 50ish, thinks in a rather disorganized way of getting into some other line of work and maybe even getting married. The thing that helps make up his mind for him is when his best friend Chet ( Jack Palance) gives up cowpunching, moves into town and marries the "hardware widow."
In the late 1800s a cowboy (Tom Selleck) fights back against Eastern corporations that are buying land in the West.
- Western, Drama
At the end of the Wild West era, cowboys Monte Walsh (Lee Marvin) and Chet Rollins (Jack Palance) arrive in the town of Harmony, where they reconnect with their old friend Shorty Austin (Mitch...
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- Western
- PG-13
