The Sacketts
| The Sacketts | |
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| Genre | Western |
| Based on |
The Daybreakers and Sackett by Louis L'Amour |
| Screenplay by | Jim Byrnes |
| Directed by | Robert Totten |
| Starring |
Sam Elliott Tom Selleck Jeff Osterhage Glenn Ford |
| Music by | Jerrold Immel |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) |
Douglas Netter Jim Byrnes |
| Producer(s) | Douglas Netter Jim Byrnes |
| Location(s) | Buckskin Joe Frontier Town & Railway, 1193 Fremont County Road 3A, Canon City, Colorado Mescal, Arizona Old Tucson Studios, Arizona Red Hills Ranch, Sonora, California |
| Cinematography | Jack Whitman |
| Editor(s) | Howard A. Smith |
| Running time | 170 minutes |
| Production company(s) |
Douglas Netter Productions M.B. Scott Productions Shalako Enterprises (produced in association with) Media Productions |
| Distributor | NBC |
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| Original network | NBC |
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The Sacketts is a 1979 American Western television film directed by Robert Totten and starring Sam Elliott, Tom Selleck, Jeff Osterhage, and Glenn Ford. Based on the novels The Daybreakers and Sackett by Louis L'Amour, the film recounts the story of the Sackett brothers in 1869 who leave their Tennessee home and start a new life together in Santa Fe.
Three brothers from Tennessee, Tell, Orrin, and Tyrel Sackett, are brought together by the tragic events that occur at Orrin's wedding. Tell (Sam Elliott) is a mountain man who hasn't seen his family in almost ten years, Orrin (Tom Selleck) is a former lawman now looking to settle down with his family, and Tyrel (Jeff Osterhage) is the youngest brother who is very good with a revolver. At the wedding, Long Higgins (James O'Connell), the brother of a man Orrin had previously killed arrives in the middle of the ceremony and holds Orrin at gunpoint. Long pulls the trigger, but Orrin's fiancée gets in the way and is shot and killed. Tyrel arrives and shoots Long dead.
Having killed a man, Tyrel clears out of Tennessee and heads west. Following the funeral of Orrin's fiancée, his mother tells him to join Tyrel and find Tell, and to go start a life in the west. Meanwhile, Tell has found work in a mining camp in Uvalde, Texas. During a card game, Tell accuses one of the men, Wes Bigelow, of cheating and shoots him dead. The leader of the mining camp suggests that Tell should leave before the victim's brothers arrive to seek revenge, and Tell heads out alone into the wilderness.
On his way west, Tyrel meets with a cattle drive and signs on as a cowhand. He immediately becomes friends with aging cowhand Cap Rountree (Ben Johnson), and former gunfighter Tom Sunday (Glenn Ford), who becomes a mentor to Tyrel. Orrin catches up with the group and joins them. As they finish the drive in Abilene, Kansas, Cap, Tom, Orrin and Tyrel make plans to collect wild cattle near the Purgatoire River. While in the town, Orrin becomes attracted to the daughter of wealthy man Jonathan Pritts (John Vernon), while Tyrel becomes attracted to the Drusilla (Ana Alicia), the granddaughter of wealthy Mexican Don Luis (Gilbert Roland). Don Luis and Pritts are arguing with each other over Luis' land in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
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