Streets of Laredo (TV Mini-Series 1995) - IMDb. With James Garner, Sissy Spacek, Sam Shepard, Ned Beatty. Captain Woodrow Call, now retired from the Rangers, is a bounty hunter. He is hired by an eastern rail baron to track down Joey Garza, a new kind of killer, only a boy, who kills from a distance with a rifle.
Larry McMurtry's Streets of Laredo is a 1995 American Western television miniseries directed by Joseph Sargent. It is a three-part adaptation of the 1993 novel of the same name by author Larry McMurtry and is the third installment in the Lonesome Dove series serving as a direct sequel to Lonesome Dove, ignoring the events of Return to Lonesome Dove. The series is set in the 1890s. The series stars James Garner as former Texas Ranger Captain Woodrow F. Call, now a bounty hunter, hired to track do
Streets of Laredo. Passed | 1h 33min | Western | 27 May 1949 (USA) An outlaw separates from his two partners in crime when they join the Texas Rangers, and he continues to commit daring robberies.
"Streets of Laredo", also known as the "Cowboy's Lament", is a famous American cowboy ballad in which a dying cowboy tells his story to another cowboy. Members of the Western Writers of America chose it as one of the Top 100 Western songs of all time. Derived from the traditional folk song "The Unfortunate Rake", the song has become a folk music standard, and as such has been performed, recorded and adapted numerous times, with many variations. The title refers to the city of Laredo, Texas. The
Streets of Laredo is in many ways a corrective to Lonesome Dove, which McMurtry thought was misinterpreted as a peon to the heroes of the old American west. Laredo is an often grim read that takes the point of view of its most abused characters to criticize the relentless violence of a west slowly being brought under the yoke of (white ...
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Traditional American Folk – Streets of Laredo Lyrics ...
Streets of Laredo Lyrics: As I walked out in the streets of Laredo / As I walked out in Laredo one day / I spied a dear cowboy wrapped up in white linen / Wrapped up in white linen and cold as the...
