Lonesome Dove Mini-Series DVD & Digital #Review #MillCreekEntertainment

I am a a fan of westerns, especially the old ones that used to be on television while I was growing up. If you are too, I think you would like Lonesome Dove, which was a mini-series made in 1989. I had heard of it but have never seen the mini-series before so was excited to be able to get it for viewing from Mill Creek Entertainment.

Disclosure: I received free DVD & Digital from Mill Creek Entertainment for review purposes. All opinions expressed here are my own.

This series has some popular stars that are great in it, including Robert Duvall, Tommy Lee Jones and Danny Glover - which are always good in any movie I have seen. Some other stars I like in this series are Robert Eurich, Angelica Houston, Diane Lane and Ricky Schroeder.

At the very beginning I knew this was going to be something that I was going to enjoy. The characters are excellent and I like the scenery of the old west in Texas. It starts out showing four of the characters living in a shack with a Mexican cook. Duvall (Gus) and Jones (Woodrow) are former Texas Rangers. They have a couple of pigs running around the homestead, always looking for something to eat. Gus tells them to go look for another snake to eat.

Suddenly Danny Glover (Joshua) and Robert Eurich (Jake) ride up on horses and haven't seen their friends for about 9 years. Jake accidentally shot a dentist in a saloon gunfight and is a fugitive. Joshua was a former scout for the Texas Rangers and Jake was a Texas Ranger. Jake and Gus sit down and have a talk about Jake's world travels and Gus asks if he had ever seen Clare, who must have been Gus' sweetheart in the past. Jake said he saw her in Nebraska and that she was married to a horse trader and had two daughters.

Woodrow has an idea to go to Montana and talks to Gus about it, which Gus answers that he thinks they're getting too old to fight Indians. Woodrow says he would like to go there for the herd before the bankers and lawyers get it.

In another segment it shows a sheriff coming home on his horse, and his son is outdoors milking a cow. The sheriff asks how his mother is doing and the boy says she's been feeling poorly that morning. They both go in to eat and the sheriff says he's been thinking of going after Jake Spoon for killing his brother. His wife tells her husband to take their son along because he has to grow up sometime. She has a plan to go see her son's real father when they are gone and she is pregnant.

As the story continues, Gus, Woodrow, Jake, Joshua and their group set out at daybreak to go to Mexico. They see a herd of wild horses before they come across a couple of Irish men who are singing and drinking around a campfire. Gus and Woodrow's group befriend the Irish men (who think they are in Galveston, Texas) and they join them. Afterwards, it shows the group while they round up more than 100 horses through Mexico and back to their homestead.

The whole group of men decide to travel to Montana, which is 2,500 miles from Lonesome Dove for some excitement and a new beginning. Gus stops by their house to take a livery sign he had nailed on a fence and to look at their place once more before they leave. He tells the two pigs that the place is all theirs now.

Gus stops at the saloon to say goodbye to the owner and have a drink with him. When he goes out to leave, the piano player from the saloon is in his buggy and says he is going with them. As Gus drives the buggy past their house, the two pigs start following them.

So far I am enjoying this mini-series quite a lot. It holds my attention I am interested in seeing what's ahead in the story.