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The Shadow Riders(1982)
Status: Released
Date: 1982-09-28
64%
52 Votes
Time: 1h 36m
Sometimes you have to start a war to finish one.
Overview:
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.
Languages: English.
Countries:
United States of America
ProductionCompanies: 
CBS Entertainment Productions
The Pegasus Group
Movie: The Shadow Riders
Top 10 Billed Cast
Tom Selleck
Mac Traven
Sam Elliott
Dal Traven
Ben Johnson
Uncle 'Black Jack' Traven
Geoffrey Lewis
Major Cooper Ashbury, Comanchero Leader
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
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