Product: The Sacketts [VHS] (1979)
Rating: 5.0
A Rollicking L'Amour Western with Selleck & Elliott---a good evening's entertainment
Westerns are my favorite genre, and Tom Selleck and Sam Elliott are the quintessential cowboys. And Louis L'Amour is one of my favorite western authors. I remember reading "Hondo" as a horse-and-western-crazy young girl. The Sacketts starts with Orrin Sackett's wedding, but it's interrupted by a Tennessee blood feud which leaves his bride dead at his feet, and her killer dead at the hands of Orrin's younger brother, Tyrell. Of course, Tye has to light out before the man's relations come for him, and Orrin soon follows. Eventually they meet up with another brother, William Tell Sackett (Elliott), and they are helped along in their adventures by Ben Johnson, Glen Ford, Slim Pickens, Jack Elam, etc. It's based on two of L'Amour's most entertaining books, "The Daybreakers" and "Sackett."