Longarm_(film)

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Longarm (film)

1988 TV film

Longarm is a 1988 western television film loosely based on the Jove Books series of the same name written under the house pseudonym, "Tabor Evans".

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The film, set in the Territory of New Mexico in the 1870s, stars John Terlesky as the titular Deputy United States Marshal Custis Long, and features René Auberjonois as real-life territorial governor (and author of Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ) Lew Wallace.[1] The film was intended as a pilot for a TV series based on the books, but the program was not picked up.[1][2]

The "occasionally humorous script" was written by David J. Chisholm, a "veteran Western writer".[2]

References

  1. [1]
    Alvin H. Marill, Television Westerns: Six Decades of Sagebrush Sheriffs, Scalawags, and Sidewinders (2011), p. 118.
  2. [2]
    Gary A. Yoggy, Riding the Video Range: The Rise and Fall of the Western on Television (1995), p. 552.


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