The Shadow Riders
Sometimes you have to start a war to finish one.
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9/28/1982Runtime
96 minsOverview
After starring in "The Sacketts", Tom Selleck and Sam Elliott team up again but this time as Mac and Dal Traven, in a movie based on a classic Louis L'Amour novel. They are brothers, who meet up at the end of the Civil War fighting on opposite sides. They go home only to find their family in dire need and their sisters and brother kidnapped by ruthless raiders. They set out to rescue their family.
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Two brothers torn apart by the Civil War must reunite and cross dangerous terrain to rescue their kidnapped siblings from ruthless raiders. It's a straightforward, action-driven western adventure with the weight of family obligation and wartime estrangement hanging over the mission.
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Tom Selleck
Mac Traven
Sam Elliott
Dal Traven
Ben Johnson
Uncle 'Black Jack' Traven
Geoffrey Lewis
Major Cooper Ashbury, Comanchero Leader
Jeff Osterhage
Jesse Traven
Gene Evans
Colonel Holiday Hammond, Gunrunner
Katharine Ross
Kate Connery / Sister Katherine
Dominique Dunne
Sissy Traven
Scanlon Gail
Yankee Officer
R.G. Armstrong
Sheriff Miles Gillette
Marshall R. Teague
Lieutenant Butler
Jane Greer
Ma Traven
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