How can anyone not give this 10 stars? A made for TV remake. I've never given such high a rating to a remake. If you're into westerns you have to watch this. Lee Marvin was great in the first one. Selleck resold this one. Great acting. Great actors. Love this movie. The characters were believable and you felt the emotion from each one. Great direction. The scenery was beautiful. I think I was born in the wrong era.

Selleck and Carradine are members of the cowboy subculture of post-war Wyoming and, boy, do they have fun when they're not working. They have the esprit and solidarity of the U. S. Marine Corps.Alas, the West is being taken over by the suits, "Eastern money," capitalist entrepreneurs who downsize everything to maximize profits. That's okay except that cowboys go the way of itinerant tinkers. If the beginning is raucous, the end is tragic really. As his way of life is squashed by higher economic powers, he loses his friends one by one and turns into a kind of Willy Loman, talking alone to his horse.I don't want to repeat any observations from my earlier review of the original "Monte Walsh", with Lee Marvin. The stories, and even the individual scenes, are pretty much the same.Tom Selleck is okay in the lead role. He's better at some things, like bronc busting, than anybody else and maybe a bit more moral, but otherwise he's just one of the boys, subject to the same physical and spiritual insults, comfortably within Northrop Frye's "low mimetic" mode -- just one of us reg'lar fellers who bleeds after a fist fight and doesn't always come out on top.

Extremely accurate historically, this western chronicles the clash of the cowboy culture with 20th century progress - a popular theme in U. S. history. Selleck is excellent as Monte (as he is in most roles!) The production is very accurate, amazingly so for a T V western; "...Dove" was the archetypal western but this comes very close. The bucking bronco in the store typifies, as few other scenes ever have, the battle between the Old West and modern America. The only weak aspect of the story is Shorty's sudden descent from decent cowboy to killer. There's no real justification for this, but it's perhaps meant to further illustrate the death throes of the cowboy profession. Great movie - I recommend it highly.

Tom Selleck cuts a World-weary figure trying to cope with the changes that take the cowboys' Western World into the 20th century. With a small but talented cast of work-soiled trailmates, he plays out the end of an era in fine form.The beautiful scenery of Alberta substitutes well for the Wyoming Territory it portrays. Sweeping views and mountain backdrops are entrancing. Although some of the characterisations are a little thin, the overall result is a pleasing and inoffensive pastiche of a period that is little dealt with in film.Supporting actors give strong performances and there is little to cause concern to a family audience with both fight scenes and infrequent romantic episodes drawn quite delicately and without excessive detail.