Product: The Sacketts [VHS] (1979)
Rating: 5.0
genuine article for western genre films
"The Sacketts" on DVD runs 3-1/4 hrs, two discs, was filmed 1979 in Canon City, Colorado; Mescal, Arizona; and Sonora, California - with Sam Elliott, Tom Selleck, Jeff Osterhage, Glenn Ford, Ben Johnson, Gilbert Roland, John Vernon, Jack Elam, Gene Evans, Slim Pickens, and several others you might recognize. Based upon Louis L'Amour's third book in the Sackett series, this TV adapted film is about three brothers headed west from Tennessee, and how their paths converge along that process. Tom Selleck is particularly smooth in this DVD movie, and Sam Elliott in with so many other big name western genre stars, well, an "old school" authentic western like this one is hard not to like. My all time favorite Sam Elliott western is "Conagher" and I'd have to say I enjoyed "Shadow Riders" where Tom Selleck, Jeff Osterhage and Sam Elliott star together, but "The Sacketts" is another one of those DVD's I have bought that delivers all that it should. Women, whiskey, bad guys vs good guys, guns, shoot out draw gunfights in the street, horses, dust and horse poop in the street, and depiction of hard living conditions to make most of us today realize we wouldn't have stayed alive very long had we actually lived during that time period. Approximately 45 minutes was cut from the TV version to make the DVD. Still well worth watching, and owning the DVD.