Main Cast: Tom Selleck, Keith Carradine, George Eads, Wallace Shawn, Barry Corbin
Release Year: 2003
Country: US
Run Time: 95 minutes
Plot
Based on a novel by Jack Schaefer (writer of Shane), and previously filmed theatrically in 1970, the made-for-cable Monte Walsh is the still-timely saga of a dying way of life. Monte Walsh (Tom Selleck) and his friends are cowboys and bronco busters, plying their trade in the Wyoming Territory of 1892. Alas, the advance of civilization has all but rendered Monte and his comrades obsolete -- and with the increasing corporate buy-ups of Wyoming land, these relics of the Old West have practically nowhere else to go. Should Monte continue as before, seeking out the last of the wide open spaces, or should he follow the advice of his sweetheart Martine (Isabella Rosselini) and settle down in a steady job -- say, as a trick rider-roper in the traveling Wild West Show owned by impresario Colonel Wilson (Wallace Shawn)? This elegiac drama debuted January 17, 2003, on the TNT network as part of the cable service's "100 Years of Westerns" celebration. The teleplay is partially credited to one of the scripters of the 1970 film, Lukas Heller, who died in 1988. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Lori Hallier - Mary Wilder; Isabella Rossellini - Martine; William Devane - Cal Brennan; John Michael Higgins - Robert Slocumb; Robert Carradine - Sunfish Perkins; Rick Ravanello - Sugar Wyman; William Sanderson - Skimpy Eagens; Marshall Teague - Dally Johnson; Bruce McFee - The Burley Man; Tim Koetting - Stocky Barman; Gillian Carfra - Young Woman; James Gammon - Fightin' Joe Hooker; Matt Cooke - Rufus Brady; Zack Ward - Powder Kent; Shane Pollitt - Joe Joslin; Hat Henderson - Rex Lynn
Credit
Janet Lakeman - Art Director, Jeanne McCarthy - Casting, Juel Bestrop - Casting, Blythe Capello - Casting, Simon Wincer - Director, Allan E. Baumgarten - Editor, Tom Selleck - Executive Producer, Michael Brandman - Executive Producer, Eric Colvin - Composer (Music Score), Richard Roberts - Production Designer, David Eggby - Cinematographer, Steven J. Brandman - Producer, John Albanis - Producer, Tom Glass - Stunts Coordinator, Michael Brandman - Teleplay By, Lukas Heller - Teleplay By, David Zelag Goodman - Teleplay By, Robert B. Parker - Teleplay By, Jack Schaefer - Book Author
