The Shadow Riders

1982 PG-13 1h 36m

6.5 / 10 54

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6.5/10

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After starring in "The Sacketts", Tom Selleck and Sam Elliott team up again but this time as Mac and Dal Traven, in a movie based on a classic Louis L'Amour novel. They are brothers, who meet up at the end of the Civil War fighting on opposite sides. They go home only to find their family in dire need and their sisters and brother kidnapped by ruthless raiders. They set out to rescue their family.

Director Andrew V. McLaglen

Writers

Louis L'Amour Jim Byrnes

Stars

Tom Selleck Sam Elliott Ben Johnson

Uncle 'Black Jack' Traven

Geoffrey Lewis

Major Cooper Ashbury, Comanchero Leader

Colonel Holiday Hammond, Gunrunner

Katharine Ross

Kate Connery / Sister Katherine

Sheriff Miles Gillette

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Wuchak 11 Mar 2026

6/10

**_Selleck and Sam Elliott as brothers chasing Confederate renegades_** While this is not a sequel to “The Sacketts” from three years earlier, it features five of the main actors of that 2-part film (aka ‘miniseries’), as well as the writers, Louis L'Amour and Jim Byrnes. Selleck and Elliott, as well as Jeff Osterhage, all wanted to play in another Western together and so they contacted L’Amour...

John Chard 2 Jan 2017

5/10

The Traven Brothers. The Shadow Riders is directed by Andrew V. McLaglen and adapted to screenplay by Jim Byrnes from the novel written by Louis L'Amour. It stars Tom Selleck, Sam Elliott, Katharine Ross, Dominique Dunne, Ben Johnson and Geoffrey Lewis. Music is by Jerrold Immel and cinematography by Jack Whitman. A CBS TV production, The Shadow Riders has Selleck (Mac Traven) and Elliott (D...