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Dead Man's Walk (1996)

Dead Man's Walk poster
Directed by
Yves Simoneau
Genre
Westerns on television
Country
United States
Length
1 season, 3 episodes
Rated
TV-14
Rating
6.0 of 10 from 26 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

In the 1840s, two young men named Augustus McCrae and Woodrow F. Call join the Texas Rangers. Their unit sets out on a mission to annex Santa Fe.

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What happens

Dead Man's Walk is an American epic Western adventure television miniseries starring David Arquette as Augustus McCrae and Jonny Lee Miller as Woodrow F. Call. It was directed by Yves Simoneau. It is a three-part adaptation of the 1995 novel of the same name by Larry McMurtry and is chronologically the first book of the Lonesome Dove series. In this prequel to Lonesome Dove, it is 1840s Texas, and two young men join the Texas Rangers unit that is on a mission to annex Santa Fe. While the miniseries has been broken up into 3 parts for the DVD release, the series was originally broadcast by ABC over two nights in May 1996, and was later nominated for several awards. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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