As long as both Tom Selleck and Sam Elliott are alive and hale and hearty, Louis L'Amour western novels will have an outlet on the big and small screen. Westerns maybe getting fewer and fewer made, but Crossfire Trail will stand up to any made in Hollywood's golden age.
Selleck plays your unambiguous western hero in this film, a Shane like knight of the plains. A dying friend asks Selleck to take care of his wife and ranch that he left. As it turns out the friend was run out of the area because the big man of the valley wants both the ranch and the wife Virginia Madsen in equal measure.
Mark Harmon who is usually a good guy on the big and small screen is one nasty piece of work. He's told Madsen she's a widow by dint of the Sioux. Her land is a good spread, but Harmon is thinking with his male member more than anything. More in keeping with today's mores than the old time western.
But that doesn't lessen Selleck as a cowboy hero. He's got himself his own posse with Wilford Brimley as a cantankerous old timer in the Gabby Hayes tradition, Christian Kane as the impetuous young timer, and David O'Hara as a most traditional Irishman with a taste for brew and brawls.
You'll also remember Brad Johnson who like Jack Palance in Shane is a badman with very few words and a keen sharpshooter's eye. That's bad news for one of Selleck's crew.
For those who say good westerns aren't still being made I would offer Crossfire Trail from one of the best sources Louis L'Amour.
Selleck plays your unambiguous western hero in this film, a Shane like knight of the plains. A dying friend asks Selleck to take care of his wife and ranch that he left. As it turns out the friend was run out of the area because the big man of the valley wants both the ranch and the wife Virginia Madsen in equal measure.
Mark Harmon who is usually a good guy on the big and small screen is one nasty piece of work. He's told Madsen she's a widow by dint of the Sioux. Her land is a good spread, but Harmon is thinking with his male member more than anything. More in keeping with today's mores than the old time western.
But that doesn't lessen Selleck as a cowboy hero. He's got himself his own posse with Wilford Brimley as a cantankerous old timer in the Gabby Hayes tradition, Christian Kane as the impetuous young timer, and David O'Hara as a most traditional Irishman with a taste for brew and brawls.
You'll also remember Brad Johnson who like Jack Palance in Shane is a badman with very few words and a keen sharpshooter's eye. That's bad news for one of Selleck's crew.
For those who say good westerns aren't still being made I would offer Crossfire Trail from one of the best sources Louis L'Amour.