Lonesome Dove Part I: Leaving DVD 1989 Texasi Krónikák 1. - Az indulás / Directed by Simon Wincer / Starring: Robert Duvall, Tommy Lee Jones, Danny Glover, Diane Lane, Anjelica Huston

UPC 5999553600063 / 5999016344275 / IPH 6132

MADE IN GERMANY

REGION 2 PAL DVD 

Audio: English 2.0, Hungarian 2.0

Subtitles: Hungarian

Runtime: 94 minutes

English Summary:

Lonesome Dove is an American epic Western adventure television miniseries directed by Simon Wincer. It is a four-part adaptation of the 1985 novel of the same name by Larry McMurtry and is the first installment in the Lonesome Dove series. The novel was based upon a screenplay by Peter Bogdanovich and McMurtry, intended to star John Wayne, James Stewart and Henry Fonda, but the film was never made after John Ford advised Wayne against it. The eventual television miniseries stars Robert Duvall and Tommy Lee Jones. The series was originally broadcast by CBS from February 5 to 8, 1989, drawing a huge viewing audience, earning numerous awards, and reviving both the television western and the miniseries.

Captain Augustus "Gus" McCrae and Captain Woodrow F. Call, two famous former Texas Rangers, run a livery in the small dusty Texas border town of Lonesome Dove. Gus loves women, but he's twice a widower, and Call is somewhat of a workaholic. Working with them are Joshua Deets, a black tracker and scout from their Ranger days, Pea Eye Parker, another former Ranger who works hard but isn't very bright, and Bolívar, a retired Mexican bandit who is their cook. Also living with them is Newt Dobbs, a 17-year-old whose mother was a prostitute named Maggie and whose father may be Call.

Part I: Leaving

The story begins in the small south Texas town of Lonesome Dove, on the Rio Grande, as Jake Spoon, a former Texas Ranger and comrade of Gus and Call's, shows up after an absence of more than ten years. He reveals that he is a fugitive after having accidentally shot the dentist and mayor of Fort Smith, Arkansas, in a bar-room gunfight. The dentist/mayor's brother happens to be the sheriff, July Johnson.

Reunited with Gus and Call, Jake's glowing description of Montana inspires Call to gather a herd of cattle and drive them there, attracted by the notion of settling pristine country. Gus is less enthusiastic, pointing out that they are getting old and that they are Rangers and traders, not cowboys. But he changes his mind when he realises Lonesome Dove has little left to offer him by way of excitement, now that much of the land has been "civilized".

At the continued insistence of the dentist's widow, Sheriff Johnson sets off in pursuit of Spoon, accompanied by his young stepson Joe who travels at the request of Joe's mother and Sheriff Johnson's wife Elmira. Once her son and husband have left for Texas, Elmira leaves Fort Smith for Ogallala, Nebraska, to meet up with her first husband and Joe's father, Dee Boot. Sailing up the Arkansas River on a whiskey boat, she falls in with a group of buffalo hunters.

Hungarian Summary:

A festői nevű Lonesome Dove álmos kisváros Texasban, a Rio Grande partján. Ide vonult vissza a Texasi Lovascsendőrség, a Rangerek két kapitánya, hogy lótenyésztéssel üsse agyon öreg napjait. Most mégis felcsillan az utolsó nagy kaland lehetősége: egy marhacsordát kellene felterelniük északra, ahol csodásak a legelők és borsosak az árak. Csatlakozik az egyre bővülő csapathoz régi cimborájuk, Jake Spoon, akit egy ostoba bűn miatt köröznek, és Lorena Wood, a városka jobb életre vágyó gyönyörű örömlánya...

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