But anyone expecting streetside shootouts or bodies getting tossed off saloon balconies – or simply a glimpse of a cute canine – is bound to be disappointed. Should this slow-moseying psychological drama technically count as a ‘western’? Sure, it’s got the iconography: the wide-brimmed hats, the dusty landscapes, the one-horse town with more cattle than people living in it. THĬast involved: Benedict Cumberbatch, Kirsten Dunst, Jesse Plemons, Kodi Smit-McPhee. Sure, it was directed by a guy poised halfway between ‘DARYL’ and ‘Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man’, but we’ll let that slide: in its epic emotional sweep, in its breadth of landscape and action in its depth of character and awareness of history, ‘Lonesome Dove’ is every bit as artistically valid as half the movies on this list – and it’s a damn sight more entertaining than most of ’em. ![]() Adapted from a book widely considered the best ever written in the western genre, a book written by Larry McMurtry, author of ‘The Last Picture Show’ and ‘Terms of Endearment’, and starring not just Duvall in his prime, not just Jones and Glover on the verge of theirs, but a whole host of great movie character actors including Diane Lane, Frederic Forrest, Angelica Huston, Chris Cooper and William Sanderson, this is as cinematic as TV gets. ![]() Cast involved: Robert Duvall, Tommy Lee Jones, Danny Gloverīut, you cry, ‘Lonesome Dove’ is a TV mini-series, not a movie at all! Well, let’s look at the credentials.
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