Underplayed Gems

Last Stand at Saber River (1997)

Last Stand at Saber River poster
Directed by
Dick Lowry
Genre
Western film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 36m
Rated
12
Rating
6.6 of 10 from 31 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A Confederate veteran returns home after the Civil War to find his Arizona homestead taken over by pro-Union settlers. He must fight to reclaim his land and protect his family.

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What happens

Last Stand at Saber River is a 1997 American Western television film directed by Dick Lowry and starring Tom Selleck, Suzy Amis, Haley Joel Osment, Keith Carradine, David Carradine, Tracey Needham, David Dukes, and Harry Carey Jr. Based on the 1959 novel of the same title by Elmore Leonard, the film is about a Civil War Confederate veteran who tries to put the pieces of his life back together, but finds himself fighting a new battle on the frontier. Seeking to reclaim his Arizona homestead from rebel pioneers who sympathize with the Union war effort, he joins forces with his Union adversary to make a last stand for the one thing worth fighting for, his family. In 1997, Osment won a YoungStar Award for Best Performance by a Young Actor in a Made For TV Movie. In 1998, the film received the Western Heritage Awards Bronze Wrangler for Television Feature Film. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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