LONESOME DOVE: PART III: THE PLAINS (TV)
Summary
Part three of this four-part western mini-series about Gus McCrae and Woodrow Call, two former Texas Rangers who pick up stakes in the small Texas town of Lonesome Dove to lead a perilous cattle drive to Montana. In this episode, the drive reaches Montana after suffering many terrible losses. As Gus dedicates himself to nursing the deeply traumatized Lorena back to health, she develops an obsessive dependence on him. Jake Spoon realizes that the outlaw gang he has joined is more than he bargained for -- the gang's leader is a psychotic killer, and Jake is forced to participate in perverse, sadistic murders. Initially unaware of Jake's involvement, Gus and Woodrow track down the gang and mete out rough justice, miserably torn between their responsibility to kill Jake and their deep affection for him. The gambler and wastrel finds a surprising measure of dignity in the acceptance of his fate. Meanwhile, the horse farm of Gus's lost love Clara becomes the focal point of sundry reunions and partings: Elmira Johnson stops there in the company of Big Swey and Luke long enough to give birth before abandoning her newborn son in her search for an old flame; July Johnson reaches the farm in his pursuit of Elmira, and is persuaded by the warmly maternal Clara to stay and live on the farm with his baby; and Gus, Woodrow, Newt, and Lorena pay a visit. Gus and Clara discover that their love has mellowed into a profound friendship. Lorena is persuaded to stay with Clara and begin a peaceful, domestic life helping to care for Clara's daughters and Johnson's baby. Woodrow's paternal instincts come to the fore when Newt is abused in town by a soldier: Captain Call nearly kills the man with a grimly efficient beating. The drive's arrival in Montana is heralded by punishing dust storms and starving Indian horse rustlers. Tragedy ensues when the kindly Joshua Deets's attempt to help a blind Indian infant is misunderstood by a young brave. Commercials deleted.
Details
- NETWORK: CBS
- DATE: February 7, 1989 Tuesday 9:00 PM
- RUNNING TIME: 1:33:53
- COLOR/B&W: Color
- CATALOG ID: T:49205
- GENRE: Drama, western
- SUBJECT HEADING: Cattle drives - Drama; Drama, western; She Made It Collection (Suzanne de Passe)
- SERIES RUN: CBS - TV series, 1989
- COMMERCIALS: N/A
CREDITS
- Suzanne de Passe … Executive Producer
- Bill Wittliff … Executive Producer, Writer
- Robert Halmi … Co-Executive Producer
- Michael Weisbarth … Supervising Producer
- Dyson Lovell … Producer
- Simon Wincer … Directed by
- Larry McMurtry … Based on the novel by
- Basil Poledouris … Music by
- Robert Duvall … Cast, Gus McCrae
- Tommy Lee Jones … Cast, Woodrow F. Call
- Danny Glover … Cast, Joshua Deets
- Diane Lane … Cast, Lorena Wood
- Robert Urich … Cast, Jake Spoon
- Frederic Forrest … Cast, Blue Duck
- D.B. Sweeney … Cast, Dish Boggett
- Ricky Schroder … Cast, Newt
- Anjelica Huston … Cast, Clara Allen
- Chris Cooper … Cast, July Johnson
- Tim Scott … Cast, Pea Eye Parker
- Glenne Headly … Cast, Elmira
- Barry Corbin … Cast, Roscoe Brown
- William Sanderson … Cast, Lippy Jones
- Barry Tubb … Cast, Jasper Fant
- Gavin O'Herlihy … Cast, Dan Suggs
- Steve Buscemi … Cast, Luke
- Frederick Coffin … Cast, Big Swey
- Travis Swords … Cast, Allen O'Brien
- Kevin O'Morrison … Cast, the Doctor
- Ron Weyand … Cast, Old Hugh
- Michael Tylo … Cast, Dee Boot
- Nada Despotovich … Cast, Mary
- Margo Matindale … Cast, Buffalo Heiffer
- Martinez de Hoyos, Jorge … Cast, Po Campo
- Jerry Biggs … Cast, Roy Suggs
- Sean Hennigan … Cast, Eddie Suggs
- Julius Tennon … Cast, Frog Lip
- David Carpenter … Cast, Needle Nelson
- Lanny Flaherty … Cast, Soupy Jones
- Thomas Connor … Cast, Bob Allen
- Missy Crider … Cast, Sally Allen
- Lauren Stanley … Cast, Betsy Allen
- James McMurtry … Cast, Jimmy Rainey
- Charlie Haynie … Cast, Ben Rainey
- Sonny Carl Davis … Cast, Bert Borum
- Terry McIlvain … Cast, a Cowboy
- Jack Caffrey … Cast, Cholo
- Vern Porter … Cast, Dr. Arandel
- Daniel Kamin … Cast, Captain Weaver
- Tony Epper … Cast, Dixon
- Boots Southerland … Cast, the Sergeant
- Michael Berlin Pritchard … Cast, the First Cowboy
- Dave Powell … Cast, the Second Cowboy
- Adam Taylor … Cast, Deputy #1
- Eddie Komalestewa … Cast, the Young Brave
- Shrake, Erwin "Bud" … Cast, the Sodbuster