Director: Robert Totten

Writer: Jim Byrnes

From novels: The Daybreakers and Sackett by Louis L'Amour

Keywords: Western

Two of Louis L'Amour's "Sackett" novels, The Daybreakers and Sackett are dramatized in this two-part TV miniseries. The two novels maintain separate plot lines in the film: #1. Tyrel and Orrin Sackett obtain work on a cattle drive, and later become involved in a land feud. #2. Tell Sackett kills a cardsharp and ventures off to prospect for gold. Selected by the Cowboy Hall of Fame as the "most authentic" western of the 1970s.

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Ana Alicia	Actor	12-Dec-1956		Melissa Gioberti on Falcon Crest
Pat Buttram	Actor	19-Jun-1915	8-Jan-1994	Mr. Haney on Green Acres
Jack Elam	Actor	13-Nov-1918	20-Oct-2003	The Sundowners
Sam Elliott	Actor	9-Aug-1944		Rush, The Hulk
Gene Evans	Actor	11-Jul-1922	1-Apr-1998	Behemoth, the Sea Monster
Glenn Ford	Actor	1-May-1916	30-Aug-2006	Gilda, Blackboard Jungle
James Gammon	Actor	20-Apr-1940	16-Jul-2010	American Character Actor
Ben Johnson	Actor	13-Jun-1918	8-Apr-1996	The Last Picture Show
L. Q. Jones	Actor	19-Aug-1927		Battle Cry
Louis L'Amour	Novelist	22-Mar-1908	10-Jun-1988	Hondo
Mercedes McCambridge	Actor	17-Mar-1916	2-Mar-2004	All the King's Men
Slim Pickens	Actor	29-Jun-1919	8-Dec-1983	Tough cowboy actor
Gilbert Roland	Actor	11-Dec-1905	15-May-1994	The Bad and the Beautiful
Ruth Roman	Actor	22-Dec-1922	9-Sep-1999	Champion
Tom Selleck	Actor	29-Jan-1945		Magnum, P.I.
Buck Taylor	Actor	13-May-1938		Newly O'Brien on Gunsmoke
John Vernon	Actor	24-Feb-1932	1-Feb-2005	Dean Wormer in Animal House

REVIEWS

Review by anonymous (posted on 19-May-2006)

I have recently finished reading the entire Sackett Collection of books by Louis Lamour. This movie is a very wonderful interpretation of his books. It shows the viewer that might not read his novel what the Sackett Family is all about. Time and again in the Sackett novels we read about the good values of the this generation of Sacketts. Of course the movie cannot depict every scene from the books, but it doesn't leave much out. The Sackett boys always stick together and any time you get on the bad side of a Sackett, they always come a running in to help out. This movie is no different. I would recommend it to anyone interested in the ways of the 1800's west frontier.

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