The prequel to the great television series Lonesome Dove, this followup is just a complete train wreck of a film.
The film appears to cover the early lives of Larry McCurtry's characters, Captain Woodrow F. Call and Captain Augustus "Gus" McCrae and their time as Texas Rangers. But the script gives them next to nothing to work with.
For a western miniseries there is surprising little action and the film spends most of it's running time on the personal lives of the two central characters. Unfortunately their personal lives are really not very interesting. The whole miniseries is just a serious waste of time.
Larry McMurtry and his writing partner Diana Ossana adapted McMurtry's book and also have producer credits on this show, so I believe they probably have to carry a lot of the blame for it's complete failure.
The running time is a very long 284 minutes.
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