The Shadow Riders
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“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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Cast
17 people
Tom Selleck
Mac Traven
Known for
Blue Bloods
3 Men and a Baby
Sam Elliott
Dal Traven
Known for
A Star Is Born
Ghost Rider
Ben Johnson
Uncle 'Black Jack' Traven
Known for
Bonanza: The Return
Terror Train
Geoffrey Lewis
Major Cooper Ashbury, Comanchero Leader
Known for
Salem's Lot
Double Impact
Jeff Osterhage
Jesse Traven
Also in
The Sacketts
South of Reno
Gene Evans
Colonel Holiday Hammond, Gunrunner
Known for
Shock Corridor
The Steel Helmet
Katharine Ross
Kate Connery / Sister Katherine
Known for
The Graduate
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Dominique Dunne
Sissy Traven
Known for
Poltergeist
Scanlon Gail
Yankee Officer
Known for
Fright Night Part 2
R.G. Armstrong
Sheriff Miles Gillette
Known for
Predator
Children of the Corn
Marshall R. Teague
Lieutenant Butler
Known for
Road House
Armageddon
Jane Greer
Ma Traven
Known for
Out of the Past
The Big Steal
Andrew V. McLaglen Director · Jim Byrnes Screenplay Louis L'Amour Author
United States release September 28, 1982 · Produced in United States · Production Columbia Pictures Television, The Pegasus Group
Production
CBS Entertainment Productions
Production
Columbia Pictures Television
Production
The Pegasus Group
Production
United States
Produced in
Languages
Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English
Release dates
Sweden · September 28, 1982
Theatrical
United States · September 28, 1982
TV
Finland
October 28, 2005 · Physical
Germany
December 29, 1990 · TV
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