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Date: 2007-04-25
I've watched this movie at least 3 times
I grew up on "B" westerns on LA's channel 11.
The plots became formulaic after a while?
As when the Italian westerns with Clint Eastwood came out,
I had thought they just couldn't do anything new in a western.
This one put a cork in that.
The book was first published in 1918.
There have been several cowboy bands named after this novel.
Loren Zane Grey has resurrected Lassiter in a continuation
of his father's work ( and was successful doing it because this is a classic).Lassiter Gold
It stands as characteristic " American Literature" as a culture:
like Jazz. The honorable warrior and his noble love are strains of literature
going back in time to the Greeks. The ability to capture
that feeling in a movie is very rare. This one does it!
I'm sure I'll watch it again:
that seems to be the test of quality.
It is worth watching again.

Rating:
Date: 2006-05-30
Book was terrific, movie a disappointment
Perhaps I should not have read the book first. The book was terrific: colorful characters, beautiful descriptive passages of the Utah country (as only Zane Grey can write), great story lines.
The movie, while hitting on all the main points of the story, left out a lot of detail that made the book so wonderful, and helped to tie things together. I was really disappointed. The characters of Lassiter and Venters, although heroic in the movie, were much more colorful in the book, especially Venters. I won't go into any more details here (there are too many), but anyone who has seen this movie should read the book and judge for themselves. The only reason I gave it 3 stars is for the actors, Ed Harris and his wife Amy Madigan - I've always been fans of theirs (and they're the producers of this movie) - but they really should've taken the time and made this a little longer movie (it's only 90 minutes) in order to make it more true to the book.

Rating:
Date: 2005-04-22
One of the Best Western series
The actors are superb and are working with what I consider one of the most romantic and exciting western stories ever published (one of my favorites).
I hope that this will come out on DVD.

Rating:
Date: 2005-01-16
Almost a great Film
Zane Grey had the unique ability to paint pictures through words of a world he experienced first hand in a time before television. Riders of the Purple Sage missed a great opportunity to literally show the Purple Sage and create a pictorial reference to time and place. The casting of Harris and Madigan was acceptable as they appeared to be instrumental in bringing the project to the screen. However, Grey's writing is not at all comfortable on television, it is big screen, big, big screen and the environment that Grey so lovingly described all but vanished in the clunky directing and the overuse of dissolves in the editing process. David Lean's Lawrence of Arabia is a Film I would have suggested they try to emulate. Grey created balances of character and place and this film badly missed. The casting of the young couple was SOOO Hollywood. I can almost see the casting session "but we need to attract a younger audience, let's not get too real with this and alienate the viewer and the Mormons" Yawn!

Rating:
Date: 2004-07-05
Zane Grey's West

Director: Charles Haid
Format: Color
Studio: Turner Home Video
Video Release Date: March 4, 1997

Cast:

Ed Harris Lassiter
Amy Madigan Jane
The rest of the cast: unidentified

The original story is about Latter Day Saints in the story by Zane Grey. They are not so identified in the film version.

Lassiter, a feared gunman seeking the gravesite of his sister, who had a daughter before she died. Upon coming onto the ranch of Jane, he finds a situation where a young man is being held by an apparent lynch mob for his friendship with Jane. Lassiter frees him. When the pastor hears about Lassiter's mission to kill his sister's abductor, he tries to kill Lassiter, who wounds him instead.

This is an interesting story by the old master of Western stories, who once lived a few miles from here on the Rogue River of Oregon. If you've never read Zane Grey's stories you have a great experience in store.

Joseph (Joe) Pierre

author of Handguns and Freedom...their care and maintenance
and other books

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