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Pages in category "Films based on works by Louis L'Amour" The following 15 pages are in this category, out of 15 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
Network. HBO. Release. February 28, 1987. ( 1987-02-28) The Quick and the Dead is a 1987 American made-for-television Western film based on the 1973 novel by Louis L'Amour, directed by Robert Day and starring Sam Elliott, Tom Conti, Kate Capshaw, Kenny Morrison and Matt Clark .
Crossfire Trail is a 2001 American made-for-television western film directed by Simon Wincer and starring Tom Selleck, Virginia Madsen, and Wilford Brimley.Based on the 1954 Louis L'Amour Western novel of the same name, the film is about a wanderer named Rafe Covington who swears an oath to his dying best friend to look after his beloved wife and Wyoming ranch, only to encounter other forces ...
Louis Dearborn L'Amour ( / ˈluːi ləˈmʊər /; né LaMoore; March 22, 1908 – June 10, 1988) was an American novelist and short story writer. His books consisted primarily of Western novels, though he called his work "frontier stories". His most widely known Western fiction works include Last of the Breed, Hondo, Shalako, and the Sackett ...
Early childhood and background. Charles Bowdrie was born around the area of D'hanis, Texas sometime between the years of 1861 and 1863. His facial features often lead people to assume that he is of Native American heritage. This is not true however, Bowdrie was raised by a Comanche tribe from the time his parents were killed by Native Americans.
ISBN. 0-553-27013-3 (first edition, hardback) The Walking Drum is a novel by the American author Louis L'Amour. Unlike most of his other novels, The Walking Drum is not set in the frontier era of the American West, but rather is an historical novel set in the Middle Ages —12th-century Europe and the Middle East .
Language. English. Budget. $2 million [ 2] Catlow is a 1971 American Western film, based on a 1963 novel of the same name by Louis L'Amour. It stars Yul Brynner as a renegade outlaw determined to pull off a Confederate gold heist. It co-stars Richard Crenna and Leonard Nimoy. [ 3]
Westerns. Western fiction is a genre of literature set in the American Old West frontier and typically set from the late eighteenth to the late nineteenth century. [ 1] Well-known writers of Western fiction include Zane Grey from the early 20th century and Louis L'Amour from the mid-20th century. [ 2][ 3] The genre peaked around the early 1960s ...