It’s been said that Westerns are to America what Shakespeare is to England. The Western genre has been an important and iconic part of our heritage, whether in film, TV or in print. And one of the most popular and prolific Western authors was Louis L’Amour.
L’Amour had a long career writing Western fiction, which he liked to call “Frontier Stories”. L’Amour wrote 89 books from 1930 to the late 1980s. Many of his stories were made into movies and all his books are still in print. He was a favorite author of Western film superstar John Wayne. “The Louis L’Amour Western Collection” brings three film adaptations of L’Amour novels to DVD for the first time.
The first of these L’Amour adaptations is The Sackets, a two-part made-for-tv retelling of two of L’Amour’s novels (The Daybreakers and Sackett) from “The Sacketts” series. The...
L’Amour had a long career writing Western fiction, which he liked to call “Frontier Stories”. L’Amour wrote 89 books from 1930 to the late 1980s. Many of his stories were made into movies and all his books are still in print. He was a favorite author of Western film superstar John Wayne. “The Louis L’Amour Western Collection” brings three film adaptations of L’Amour novels to DVD for the first time.
The first of these L’Amour adaptations is The Sackets, a two-part made-for-tv retelling of two of L’Amour’s novels (The Daybreakers and Sackett) from “The Sacketts” series. The...
- 6/3/2010
- by Rob Young
- JustPressPlay.net
Louis L.Amour should be a familiar name to western fans. This new collection from Warner offers the instant collection for films inspired from his novels, however, if you.re already a fan more than likely you already own all the films in this set. Louis L.Amour (1908-1988) was primarily known for his western novels. His works have long been mined by both the small and big screens. This set collects some of the adaptations together for the first time, yet this is not the first time they.ve been on DVD. The Sacketts (1979): Tom Selleck, Sam Elliot and Jeff Osterhage play brother who migrate west to make their fortunes in cattle-herding and gold prospecting. Each aims to make...
- 5/20/2010
- by Jeff Swindoll
- Monsters and Critics
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