Streets of Laredo

Plot synopsis:
A trio of outlaws, Jim Dawkins (Holden), Loren Renning (Carey), and Reuben "Wahoo" Jones (Bendix), rob a stage. But when a young lady, Rannie Carter (Freeman), is menaced by rich and ruthless Charley Calico (Alfonso Bedoya) after her father is killed, the robbers come to her rescue. They run him off, then pay old Pop Lint (Clem Bevans) to watch over her at his ranch.
Loren ends up separated from his partners but continues his life of crime. Jim and Wahoo inadvertently aid some Texas Rangers and are sworn in as Rangers themselves. Loren sees an opportunity, steals a herd of cattle the Rangers are guarding, then lets Jim and Wahoo enhance their reputation by being the ones who bring the cattle back.
Loren's friends turn a blind eye to his activities for a while. Calico is a worse villain, burning Pop's barn and causing the old man to have a fatal heart attack. Calico assaults a Ranger as well, and is ultimately killed by Jim.
But it doesn't end there. Loren now wants Calico's empire for himself. He also wants Rannie, who has grown to be a beautiful woman. Jim, who loves her, calls off the agreement to look the other way at Loren's misdeeds. But he does remove a bullet when a wounded Loren hides out at Rannie's after a holdup.
Jim resigns as a lawman, then vows revenge after Wahoo is gunned down. Now that Rannie can see Loren for what he really is, she wishes Jim luck as he rides to Laredo for a showdown. The former partners face each other for the last time, then Loren is killed.

Tags: violence, murder

Review:
Granted, both the original Lonesome Dove novel and film are unique works of extremely fascinating classic story telling.
Streets of Laredo obviously has a great deal to live up to and, when viewed or read in conjunction with Dove, it does suffer in the sense that our familiarity is slightly snubbed.
Violent death or at least the threat of it is an ever present character awash on Laredo's landscape much more than Dove.That said, Streets of Laredo as a film stands firmly upon its own merits which are quite impressive.Firstly, the cast is sublime.
Streets of Laredo - The sequel to Lonesome DoveStreets of Laredo has much to offer - a long tale of famous Texas legends - some fictional, like Captain Woodrow F.
Like Lonesome Dove it has heartbreak and pain, and some very quiet humor.
Roy Bean and Call have a particularly great scene together, as do the young killer Call is after and John Wesley Hardin.The story is also full of great ideas, something sorely lacking in most films.
Who knew George Carlin could act?James Garner is genuine, and authentic, as he always is.The story is full of great characters - who fall away until the principles are left to resolve, or not resolve their conflicts.The score is haunting, the cinematography is especially beautiful, the story is timeless, which is what one expects from Larry McMurtry.Enjoy!.
If you haven't seen any of the other "Lonesome Dove" movies, "Streets of Laredo" is a strong drama with an excellent cast.
"Lonesome Dove" was set in 1877, a year after "Custer's Last Stand." Gus, Woodrow and Pea Eye were "old men" about 50 years old who'd been together for 30 years.
And Woodrow and Pea Eye have STILL known each other only 30 years.We wonder why Woodrow is in Laredo instead of at his thriving ranch in Montana.
We wonder how and where Lorena and Pea Eye got together, given she went to San Francisco while Pea Eye stayed at the Montana ranch.The novel doubtless fills in lots of these gaps, but the movie shouldn't require reading the novel.
Perhaps McMurtry, a true American literary treasure, just threw this screenplay together.But even those of us who know and love "Lonesome Dove," still one of the three best things ever made for television (with "Gettysburg" and "Band of Brothers"), can detach "Streets of Laredo" from the other three, ignore its many flaws, and just watch it on its own.
A truly great western, revolving around the stunning performance of James Garner.
Rather, this film has much more in common with the real old west, to a greater degree even than series like "Deadwood".
Garner plays him the way he should be, and is even more impressive than Tommy Lee Jones in "Lonesome Dove", the series which preceded this one.
Indeed, despite the rabid fanbase of "Lonesome Dove" (of which I very nearly belong), this series is undoubtedly superior.
That series was pure trash, horribly acted and directed despite the great actors involved.There are many great performances beside Garner.
There's no overblown dialogue or direction to be found in "Streets of Laredo", something that the original "Lonesome Dove" series sometimes slipped into.
A must see for any true film fan - narrow-minded western fans looking for a 'Hollywood' west need not apply.RATING: 8.5 out of 10.
One of the first things I do after watching a movie I really like, is checking reviews of others...professionals and amateurs, as listed here.
It deserves more than comparisons with the equally superb mini-series Lonesome Dove and its fabulous other sequels.
James Garner's Woodrow Call was terrific, so was Tommy Lee Jones' but is it fair to compare them?
Cissy Spacek's Lorena was just as good as Diane Lane's as were Sam Shephard's and Tim Scott's Pea Eye interpretations.
To wrap it up, Streets of Laredo is a superb film with great acting, directing, cinematography, and a stirring musical score and more.
So was Lonesome Dove, Return to Lonesome Dove, Dead Man's Walk, Comanche Moon and the TV series.
Aging ex-Captain Woodrow Call (James Garner) from Texas Rangers , is hired by a railroad chief (Charles Martin Smith) to hunt a ruthless murderer called Joey Garza (Alexis Cruz) , only a boy , who kills mercilessly .
He joins forces with an Indian scout (Wes Studi) and Pea Eye (Sam Shepard) , whose wife (Sissy Spacek) , a school teacher and ex-whore , is reluctant his husband to follow Woodrow .
Later on , Pea Eye's wife (Sissy Spacek) leaves her farm and children and sets out in looking for her husband with unexpected results .
Including appearance of famous historical characters , such as Judge Roy Bean/Nead Beatty ¨Justice of the Peace , Law West of the Pecos¨ and the notorious gunslinger : John Wesley Hardin : Randy Quaid .
Classic Western saga with outstanding and wonderful performances in which a long ride to south Texas and the Mexican side of the border takes place .
As James Garner gives a very good acting as Woodrow Call , an ex-captain , now retired from the Rangers, and actually working as a bounty hunter .
He is hired by an Eastern rail baron and being joined by his old compadre Pea Eye marvelously performed by Sam Shepard .
And a great support cast who sometimes steal the show : Sissy Spacek , Wes Studi , Charles Martin Smith , Vanessa Martinez , George Carlin , James Gammon , Kevin Conway , Ned Beatty , Randy Quaid , among others .
Based on Pulitzer prize-winner Larry McMurtry's novel , whose books about Woodrow Call have been well adapted in ¨Lonesome Dove¨ 1989 by Simon Wincer with Robert Duvall, Tommy Lee Jones , Angelica Huston , Danny Glover , Diane Lane , Robert Urich .
Followed by ¨Return to Lonesome Dove¨ 1993 that picks up after the burial of Gus by his friend Call , now played by John Voight , and with William H Petersen , Barbara Hershey, Edward James Olmos , Keith Carradine , Rick Schroeder , Oliver Reed , Nia Peeples , Luis Gosset Jr , being directed by Mike Robe .
And a prequel : ¨Larry McMurtry's Dead man's walk¨ 1996 which focuses on the teenaged Gus , David Arquette , and Woodrow , Johnny Lee Miller , along with Harry Dean Stanton , Brian Dennehy , Jennifer Garner , Joaquin De Almeida , F Murray Abraham .
An Tv series 1995-96 : 22 episodes with Scott Bairstow as Call , Eric McCormack , Paul Lee Mat , Tracy Scoggins , Paul Johansson , Molly Parker and several others .This nail-biting and heart-pounding Western was compellingly directed by Joseph Sargent , without a doubt one of the best miniseries of the 90s .
A good western mini-series.
First, when it comes to the books I think most people think Lonesome Dove is a better book.
Second, the first mini-series was so one of a kind that it really left an impression with people.
By the time this came out people didn't find a western mini-series as groundbreaking.
Streets of Laredo is just as compelling as the original the only difference is that James Garner now holds the reins as Captain Woodrow Call,One of the most legendary Texas Rangers ever.
he is rivaled by George Carlin in a dramatic role a first for Carlin This movie shows us how the tale Ends but to me it still leaves a lot out maybe to lead to another story in the Lonesome Dove universe about the Final Years of Woodrow Call.
Superb acting and a strong script make this a highly recommended movie which is official Canon unlike the sequel Return to Lonesome Dove which wasn't.
Streets of Laredo can stand along side Lonesome Dove as one of the very best wild west stories ever told..
I watched Lonesome Dove, too, and didn't really have any expectations for this movie, but I'd have to say it wasn't about the thread between movies or characters; how much Garner was like Jones, etc.
And, the movie did not really take place on The Street of Laredo..
Streets of Laredo is a fine western.
It's just that Lonesome Dove set too high a standard to compare any other western with.
Maybe the problem lies with the story itself....can anyone who saw LD imagine Lorena marrying Pea Eye and having a passel of kids????
Recall that Lorena wouldn't have anything to do with Lippy and yet she marries Pea Eye. Diane Lane and Tim Scott, together!?!
Streets of Laredo simply inverts the visuals embedded in our brains from LD: now Pea Eye(Sam Shepherd) is actually better looking than Lorena(Sissy Spacek).
Newt, who was the actual "lonesome dove" in LD, is never mentioned.
I also don't like the introduction of historical figures Roy Bean and John Wesley Hardin who are used as stage props to prove how fearsome Joey Garza is.
I bought first the lonesome dove DVD and then the collection of Return to Lonesome Dove, Streets of Laredo and Dead man Walking I think it was.I have seen all but the last now.Streets of Laredo this is the worst of the three.
It's like watching aliens.Really don't like the Joey Garza character.
The best of the "Lonesome Dove" series.
Shown in two parts, "Streets of Laredo" is the best of the "Lonesome Dove" series.
Also, dropping the names of real people such as Charles Goodnight and John Wesley Hardin and the names of characters from other movies such as R.J. Poteet from Centennial was kind of lame..
Well,i didnt have high expectations for this one.It turned out to be better than i expected.It includes a fine cast led by James Garner and supported by Sissy Spacek,Sam Shepard and Sonia Braga,among others.Garner did a fine performance,same with the three others.But who i didnt like much here was Charles Martin Smith and Alexis Cruz who played Joey Garza,the main villain of the show.Smith was unconvincing and way too hillarious to be taken seriously.And Cruz is just ridiculous.I dont know why anybody would hire him.He just cant play.This show features some beautiful landscape and the story will keep you in your seat until the end.Too bad they couldnt get DiCaprio to play Joey Garza(ridiculous name by the way).
As the story plot and characters in this series have been explained and dissected by others in detail, this post is mostly commentary about its intent and result.Precisely how the dedicated director and writer interpreted the story on film made all the difference in its quality.
As the actors were not the same as in earlier versions and stories in the Lonesome Dove series, a consistency in story intention and attitude had to be maintained for it to be successful through all the varied incarnations using different actors and tech people.
And that is precisely what made this version work so well, as it was a serious, deadly and harsh story true to its original essence, and it had to be told that very same and true way and not devolve into what TV does so often with sequels....and that is to try to make it funny, different, "family entertainment", and as a result, vastly inferior.
The director and the actors stuck closely to that serious intent and execution, and that is primarily what made this story version work so well, and it was a worthy successor to the original in all ways.This was a quality TV production, in many ways the equal of most big studio films of the genre, and in many ways far superior(most especially in the great musical score).
Streets of Laredo is different than the others but it's a ride full with twists and you grow to love the new characters.
The road from beginning to end was good though, the characters we met and character development which made us like them helped from the decent villains.
The ending is amazing, couldn't be better.Dead Man's Walk to Streets of Laredo are four mini series and novels written by Larry McMurtry, the characters and story are all pure perfection.
How the author and creator have thought the whole Lonesome Dove world out is simply stunning, full of immersion and likeable characters.
I have to buy the novels and read them, just watching these mini series have inspired me to write my own western.
Cissy Spacek is a good actress, but has very strange looks, not the beauty Lorena is supposed to be, and was in Lonesome Dove.
I saw this after Dead Man's Walk and before Lonesome Dove.
I am not sure why such an inaccuracy as Judge Bean dying "not according to history" was allowed.For the record, this movie is second to Dead Man's Walk and a tad above Lonesome Dove.
I especially liked his role in the movie even though he was a train robber and killed nearly everyone he met.
The sequel they expected was probably Return to Lonesome Dove.
But Return to Lonesome Dove was in many ways just a rehash.
The other supporting characters don't really need to some back, as they were ranch hands, not major characters Given that, I wasn't disappointed not to see Newt or many other characters return when I saw the sequel or read the book.
And it makes sense that McMurtry, who is from Texas, would want to maintain a connection to Texas rather than move the entire story up to Montana.The deaths of Gus, Jake and Deets leaves only two Rangers alive: Call and Pea-Eye. The two of them are very similar in a way.
It's also a good way to show a contrast between them, which is why Lorena returns.
Pea-Eye, on the other hand, pursues that relationship and starts a family.Though it is a sequel to Lonesome Dove, viewers should brace themselves for what is, in all other respects, a completely different movie.
Were it not for the history that Call and the Parkers have, this could have been a story completely separate from the Lonesome Dove series.
This, like the prequels, is a story were the work of a Texas Ranger takes center stage.
Unlike Lonesome Dove, which had a romantic sense of adventure, this film shows the harm that their work sometimes causes.
As Woodrow and Pea Eye show, however, they still have work to do, and do it well.
It's not quite the film that Lonesome Dove was, which had a great mixture of romance, darkness, adventure and excitement--it's a much darker film--but still worth a look.Oh, and to correct one of the other reviews.
Tommy Lee Jones played Call, who is played here by James Garner.
And there are two other constants: Lorena; played in Lonesome Dove by Diane Lane and here by Sissy Spacek; and Pea Eye Parker; played in Lonesome Dove by Tim Scott, and here by Sam Shepard.
But her mention of Blue Duck and her whoring life is enough to connect the dots, and Sam Shepard actually plays Pea Eye as a man with some intelligence though not much formal education, rather than the simpleton that we got from Tim Scott.
It's also a shame that Tommy Lee Jones never returned to the role of Woodrow Call, though maybe at the age Call is in this story, it wouldn't have made sense.
I found this to be a decent follow-up to the excellent Lonesome Dove TV miniseries.
Although a different cast and a different story, it does the original story justice and follows that if you liked Lonesome Dove, then you'll like this, too.
However, in my opinion, Lonesome Dove was decidedly superior and holds up better in multiple viewings.
I liked this a lot the first time I saw it; not so much the second time.There is just one constant in the two stories: the character of Capt.
Woodrow Call, played by Tommy Lee Jones in the first series and by James Garner in this sequel.
You can't go wrong with either actor.On my second look at this long story (227 minutes), I didn't enjoy it as much the first time because I found the last hour just too bleak and depressing.
I've attempted to watch some of the other "Lonesome Dove" sequels, but had to give up after a few minutes.
I assumed the problem was the absence of most or all of the original actors -- but maybe the presence of McMurtry himself as screenwriter made all the difference.Yes, it would have been great to have Tommy Lee Jones back as Woodrow Call, but James Garner does a fine job.
Larry McMurtry's Streets of Laredo is a non sensical sequel....
There appears to be little connection between this movie and the original other then several similar character names.
Why is pea eye in Texas and why is Lorena married to him?
James Garner is a great actor but he is not good as Capt Call.
I thought that Return to Lonesome Dove was the real sequel, not this poor attempt.This would have been a good free standing movie if it was not advertised as a Lonesome Dove sequel and the characters would have had non-Lonesome Dove names..
By Far The WORST Lonesome Dove Movie Ever .....Young Mexican Is Killing People.
I gave this 3 stars only because I love a good western .
But in comparison to the 'Lonesome Dove ' series this was just awful !!
'Return to Lonesome Dove' had much more flavor and even though was not written by Larry McMurtry - was still how I would of liked the series to end .
Much better way to end the series ..
I have read enough books and talked to people who had grampas or great uncles who lived in the days of the "old west" to know this movie is closer to reality then most.
This movie can stand on its own even though it is a follow up to Lonesome Dove.