- Conagher is both a hard-riding actioner and a character-driven look at Western life. Katharine Ross plays Evie Teale, widowed after coming West and forced to prove her mettle in many ways. Sam Elliott plays Conagher, a cowhand who, when not tracking rustlers, drifts in and out of Evie’s life. Something about that frontier woman keeps drawing him back. But can Evie ever keep him from drifting out a
Conagher is both a hard-riding actioner and a character-driven look at Western life. Katharine Ross plays Evie Teale, widowed after coming West and forced to prove her mettle in many ways. Sam Elliott plays Conagher, a cowhand who, when not tracking rustlers, drifts in and out of Evie’s life. Something about that frontier woman keeps drawing him back. But can Evie ever keep him from drifting out again?
April 8, 2008
#1
I bought Conagher I will admit only because Sam Elliott is in it. I had great expectations of it because I’m such an Elliott enthusiast, but I was disappointed. I found this film too long and boring and not nearly as engaging as The Quick and The Dead. In my opinion, Sam even had more chemistry with Kate Capshaw in The Quick and the Dead than he did with his real wife Kathryn Ross in Conagher. Of course, I enjoyed seeing Sam, but I was bored and restless and was glad when the movie ended. This is not a reflection on Sam, whom I find most appealing and engaging, but the film was just too boring.
April 8, 2008
#2
Wasn’t one of his better works.
April 8, 2008
#3
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April 8, 2008
#4
Format: Color
Studio: Warner Home Video
Video Release Date: May 11, 1994
Cast:
Sam Elliott
Katherine Ross
Gavin O’Herlihy
Daniel Quinn
Barry Corbin
Ken Curtis
Cody Braun
Anndi McAfee
Conagher was written by Louis L’Amour (Lamoore) about life in the West around the end of the 19th century, with trouble with the Indians, rustlers, and a widow woman (Katherine Ross) tryimg to raise her children on a hard scrabble farm. Conagher comes to their aid.
L’Amour was a student of Western history. He understood the common man, having worked as a cowboy, circus roustabout, merchant seaman, boxer and served in the U.S.Navy. He was also a prolific writer of Western fiction, among other things.
This is not the first L’Amour story that Elliott has played in. He also performed as Tell Sackett in The Sacketts, which was an amalgamation of several of Louis’s stories in that series on that family.
This story of Conagher was one of his good stories, which you will find typical of L’Amour’s writing…good entertainment.
Joseph (Joe) Pierre
author of Handguns and Freedom…their care and maintenance
and other books
April 8, 2008
#5
I don’t like westerns much but this one is G-R-E-A-T! And if you like Sam Ellliott, be sure and get “The Avenger”.