LONESOME DOVE: PART II: ON THE TRAIL (TV)
Summary
Part two 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 part two, Lorena is captured by Gus and Woodrow's old nemesis Blue Duck, a vicious Indian, when Spoon leaves her alone to gamble in town. Blue Duck sells Lorena to a motley group of outlaws in exchange for their killing Gus, who is sure to come after her. As the men wait for the old Ranger to show up, they spend the time drinking, gambling, and raping Lorena, who falls into a catatonic stupor. Meanwhile, Roscoe Brown sets off from Arkansas to find his boss July Johnson -- who is tracking the fugitve Spoon in Texas with his young stepson Joe -- to tell him that his wife, Elmira, has run off. Roscoe helps a feral, abused young girl he meets in the woods, and she proves surprisingly resourceful when the two are accosted by bandits. After they find July, the group heads after Elmira, encountering Gus on his pursuit of Lorena and Blue Duck. Gus has narrowly escaped after a harrowing shooting match with Blue Duck's bandits, and July offers his help retrieving Lorena. Gus and July are successful, but Roscoe is tragically unable to protect the rest of their party from the cunning Blue Duck. Elmira and Spoon, who are responsible for these events, blithely follow their own idiosyncratic paths: Elmira takes up with the brutal, simple-minded Big Swey and the lecherous Luke en route to Nebraska, and Spoon joins a gang planning to rob banks. The cattle drive progresses with the addition of a new philosophical cook and Woodrow's growing, grudging acknowledgment that Newt is probably his son. Commercials deleted.
Details
- NETWORK: CBS
- DATE: February 6, 1989 Monday 9:00 PM
- RUNNING TIME: 1:30:02
- COLOR/B&W: Color
- CATALOG ID: T:49246
- 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
- Schroder, Ricky (See also: Schroder, Rick) … 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
- Robert Donley … Cast, Old Sam
- Matthew Cowles … Cast, Monkey John
- David Ode … Cast, Dog Face
- Casey Siemaszko … Cast, Janey
- David Carpenter … Cast, Needle Johnson
- Lanny Flaherty … Cast, Soupy Jones
- Martinez de Hoyos, Jorge … Cast, Po Campo
- Olan Jones … Cast, Sally Skull
- James McMurtry … Cast, Jimmy Rainey
- Charlie Hainie … Cast, Ben Rainey
- Terry McIlvain … Cast, a Cowboy
- Jerry Biggs … Cast, Roy Suggs
- Sean Hennigan … Cast, Eddie Suggs
- Julius Tennon … Cast, Frog Lip
- Paul James Vasquez … Cast, the Buffalo Hunter
- Adam Faraizl … Cast, Joe Boot
- Brandon Smith … Cast, the Bartender
- Jordan Lund … Cast, Hutto
- Matthew Posey … Cast, Jim #1
- Leon Singer … Cast, Bolivar
- Bradley Gregg … Cast, Sean O'Brien
- Sonny Carl Davis … Cast, Bert Borum
- Jean Sovo … Cast, Ermoke