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Riders of the Purple Sage is a 1996 American Western television film based on the 1912 novel by Zane Grey, directed by Charles Haid, adapted by Gil Dennis, and starring Ed Harris as Lassiter and Amy Madigan as Jane Withersteen. The film aired on TNT on January 21, 1996.
With Ed Harris, Amy Madigan, Henry Thomas, Robin Tunney. Jim Lassiter roams from town to town in search for the man who drove his sister to suicide. While riding toward a mountain pass, he sees an heiress, Jane Withersteen, being harassed by thugs and steps in to help.
Riders of the Purple Sage is a story about three main characters, Bern Venters, Jane Withersteen, and Jim Lassiter, who in various ways struggle with persecution from the local Mormon community led by Bishop Dyer and Elder Tull in the fictional town of Cottonwoods, Utah.
Riders of the Purple Sage is a 1941 American western film based on the 1912 novel by Zane Grey, directed by James Tinling, and starring George Montgomery as Lassiter and Mary Howard as Jane Withersteen. The picture is the fourth of five screen adaptations of Grey's novel produced across an eight-decade span.
Betrayal forces a woman (Amy Madigan) struggling to run her Old West ranch to turn to a mysterious drifter (Ed Harris).
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Jim Lassiter roams from town to town in search for the man who drove his sister to suicide. While riding toward a mountain pass, he sees an heiress, Jane Withersteen, being harassed by thugs and steps in to help. A religious sect wants Jane to marry their leader, Deacon Tull, so they can gain ownership of her land.
Riders of the Purple Sage (TV Movie 1996) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
Riders of the Purple Sage. 1996. 1 hr 30 mins. Drama. NR. Watchlist. A wealthy, unmarried homesteader (Amy Madigan) turns to a mysterious drifter (Ed Harris) for help when her ranch is threatened...
Texas lawman Jim Carson (Tom Mix) is on an obsessive mission to find his sister Millie (Beatrice Burnham) and her young child, who were both kidnapped by...
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Riders of the Purple Sage. The all-time best-selling Western by novelist Zane Grey comes to the screen! Ride into action with this timeless tale of a proud homesteader who joins forces with a mysterious gunman to protect her land from an entire town that's turned against her.
