The Shadow Riders | 
| Director: Andrew V. Mclaglen
Actors: Tom Selleck, Sam Elliott, Ben Johnson, Geoffrey Lewis, Jeff Osterhage
Studio: Sony Pictures
Category: DVD
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Rating:  32 reviews
Sales Rank: 3549
Format: Color, Dubbed, Dvd, Full Screen, Subtitled, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Japanese (Subtitled), French (Dubbed)
Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Region: 99
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 96 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: COLD08870D
ISBN: 140496908X
UPC: 043396088702
EAN: 9781404969087
ASIN: B000BITVBA
Theatrical Release Date: September 28, 1982
Release Date: May 13, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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When the Western slipped into theatrical oblivion in the late 1970s, many of the best examples of the genre began appearing as made-for-television films. After the success of The Sacketts, from the Louis L'Amour novel, producers quickly reunited stars Tom Selleck and Sam Elliott in another fine adaptation of a L'Amour book, The Shadow Riders. As brothers Mac and Dal Traven, sporting blue and gray uniforms, respectively, they wind their way home at the close of the Civil War to discover a band of confederate rebels have ravaged their town and kidnapped their sisters and brother and Dal's feisty sweetheart (Katharine Ross). With the help of their outlaw uncle (Western stalwart Ben Johnson), whom they must break out of prison, they track the guerrillas to the Gulf Coast and down into Mexico for a final, fatal showdown. Veteran director Andrew McLaglen sets this TV movie on a loping pace and a jovial tone, defined largely by Selleck's easygoing performance and the jocular comic relief of rascally Johnson. Elliott provides the intensity, at times positively ferocious under his heavy brows and burning, sunken eyes. The mood is occasionally too comic, but McLaglen delivers the goods in a series of gritty action sequences, proving that old Western directors don't die, they just drift on over to the small screen. Western icons R.G. Armstrong and Harry Carey Jr. and 1950s leading lady Jane Greer also appear in key roles. --Sean Axmaker
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 Low budget shows June 16, 2009
J. D. Best, author (Arizona)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Shadow Riders (1982) has a great cast, but a weak script with lackluster direction. This was a made-for-television movie, made with a small budget and hurried production schedule. It's interesting to compare this movie with Crossfire Trail (2001). Both are Louis L'Amour stories, both star Tom Selleck, but the quality of made-for-cable versus made-for-television is obvious.
 Fun, but not particularly deep... June 14, 2009
Jim Davis (Maryland Heights, MO USA)
This is a "fun" western. The good guys triumph with hardly a scratch and the bad guys go down like bowling pins. If you enjoy films of this type (and I do) then you'll enjoy this one.
Despite being made for TV the production values are excellent and the casting first rate (any western with Elliott and Selleck is well cast). The plot is straightforward - our two heroes have to save their sisters and others from being sold to a brothel in Mexico by renegade Confederates. There are a few complications along the way: the Confederates are double crossed, the heroes have to spring their uncle out of jail, etc. Everything is resolved in a satisfying happy ending.
A lot of people don't like their films without the slightest trace of tragedy for the protagonists. I can watch them all day long. The film does lack depth but that's expected with just over an hour and a half running time. This one's worth it for the cast alone.
 Sam Elliott at his best!! March 13, 2009
Sadie Walters
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
A great western story. I had this movie on VHS and when my VCR died I upgrated to DVD. Well worth the price
HERE COMES THOSE HANDSOME TRAVEN BROTHERS OF TEXAS! February 19, 2009
Teresa (NORTH CAROLINA, USA)
This is another one of my all-time favorite western movies! Sam Elliott, and Tom Selleck are my good looking, handsome cowboy heros!
The Travens get into all kinds of trouble! The Traven Brothers all come home after the Civil War is over, and find that their younger brother, and their teenage sisters have been stolen, and solded to a slave trader, who is going to ship them on a boat to another country, and one of the Traven Brother's childhood sweetheart (Kate), has also been stolen, to be sold with the others.
So all the Traven Brothers, with the help from their Uncle(Ben Johnson) who is a outlaw, go on the trail to find their love ones. I highly recommend this movie! And Sam Elliotts real life wife (Katherine Ross),is in this movie, she plays (Kate), his childhood sweetheart!
The way a western should be! November 26, 2008
David Firmes (Worcester, MA USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I loved westerns since I was a kid. John Wayne was king for me when it came to the western genre. I believe two new stars have risen on the frontier; Tom Selleck and Sam Elliott. They both have made several movies and everyone of them John Wayne would watch, if he could, and enjoy.
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