

The Shadow Riders
Sometimes you have to start a war to finish one.
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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- English
- kidnapping
- confederate raiders
- brothers
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- TVPG28 Sept 1982
FinlandFI
- PhysicalK-1228 Oct 2005
GermanyDE
- TV1629 Dec 1990
SwedenSE
- Theatrical1528 Sept 1982
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The Shadow Riders was released on 28 September 1982.
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2- J5/10
John Chard
1/2/2017
The Traven Brothers. The Shadow Riders is directed by Andrew V. McLaglen and adapted to screenplay by Jim Byrnes from the novel written by Louis L'Amour. It stars Tom Selleck, Sam Elliott, Katharine Ross, Dominique Dunne, Ben Johnson and Geoffrey Lewis. Music is by Jerrold Immel and cinematography by Jack Whitman. A CBS TV production, The Shadow Riders has Selleck (Mac Traven) and Elliott (Dal Traven) as brothe…
- W6/10
Wuchak
3/11/2026
**_Selleck and Sam Elliott as brothers chasing Confederate renegades_** While this is not a sequel to “The Sacketts” from three years earlier, it features five of the main actors of that 2-part film (aka ‘miniseries’), as well as the writers, Louis L'Amour and Jim Byrnes. Selleck and Elliott, as well as Jeff Osterhage, all wanted to play in another Western together and so they contacted L’Amour about it and this m…
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