Title: Monte Walsh
Stars: Tom Selleck, Isabella Rossellini,
Keith Carradine, George Eads, Barru Corbin, James Gammon, Wallace Shawn, and
William Devane
Writers: Michael Brandman, Robert B.
Parker, David Z. Goodman, and Lukas Heller
Based on the Novel by: Jack Shaefer
Director: Simon Wincer
Running Time: 95 minutes without
commercials
Media: TNT Original Television Motion
Picture (NTSC VHS Screener)
TriPlex World Premiere Friday, January
17, Saturday, January 18, and Sunday, January 19, 2003, at 8pm (ET/PT)
Network: Turner Network Television
(Check your local cable/satellite listings for channel)
TV Rating: 14V
Reviewer: Mark A. Rivera
Turner Network
Television will air 16 Westerns over three days with a total of 52 hours of
classic and original Western films during the weekend of January 17, 2003. This
serves as a lead into TNT’s new original film, “Monte Walsh,” starring Tom
Selleck, Isabella Rossellini, and Keith Carradine. This is a TriPlex World
Premiere with “Monte Walsh” appearing at 8pm (ET/PT) on Friday January 17,
Saturday, January 18, and Sunday, January 19, 2003. Among the other films being
shown during this TriPlex World Premiere Western Weekend are “Quigley Down
Under,” “Crossfire Trail,” “Maverick,” “Pale Rider,” “The Quick
And The Dead,” “Rio Bravo,” “Hang’Em High,” “The Outlaw Josey
Wales,” and “McLintock!” Please check your local cable and satellite
listings for show times.
Selleck devotes his
laidback charm for this majestic western about a die-hard cowboy who refuses to
give into changing times in the final days of the old west. The film deals with
the advent of commercialism and industry reaching out into the frontier and
subsequently dehumanizing and emasculating the cowboy spirit. The film was shot
for widescreen televisions and should broadcast with a letterboxed (1.78:1)
aspect ratio though that could be subject to change. For a television western,
you cannot get any better than TNT so I think “Monte Walsh” is worth a
watch. There will be additional encores of “Monte Walsh” as follows:
All
Times ET/PT
Friday,
January 17, 2003, at 10:30pm
Saturday,
January 25, at 2:30pm
Saturday,
January 25, 2003, at 10:30pm
Sunday,
January 26, 2003, at 9:30pm
Wednesday,
January 29, 2003, at 9pm
© Copyright 2002 By
Mark A. Rivera
All Rights Reserved.