The Sacketts

boykinlp · Mar 16, 2024

Well, I just finished watching one of my all time favorite westerns, The Sacketts. To me, this movie has it all. To start with, it has a ton of great, recognizable actors including Tom Selleck, Sam Elliott, Jeff Osterhage, Glenn Ford, Jack Elam, Slim Pickens, Buck Taylor, Ben Johnson, John Vernon, Gene Evans, and some others that I know I’m forgetting. It doesn’t hurt that I am a huge Selleck and Elliott fan. It has good vs. evil and a David vs. Goliath feel. It has great scenery. It has horses, cattle, rifles, six guns, gold fever, pretty women, fancy shooting, Poker and card sharps, and very sharp Bowie knives. While being a long movie, it keeps your attention throughout. I liked it so much that I had a Western brand Bowie knife made into my mountain man Tell Sackett knife, including a stag crown handle and over the shoulder leather sheath. The sheath was designed and made by our own Wyatt Burp. I believe he did a fantastic job! What’s not to like? Who else is a fan of this classic western movie?
Larry

Onomea · Mar 16, 2024

boykinlp said:
..It has horses, cattle, rifles, six guns, golf fever, pretty women, fancy shooting, Poker and card sharps, and very sharp Bowie knives....

Golf fever?? Suddenly they break out the clubs and start whacking that little ball all over?

Ya know, I have not seen that movie in ages. I think I have the DVD in my Japan house. I need to watch it again.

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*I had this movie confused with Last Stand at Saber River. I see The Sacketts is available on Amazon Prime for rental at about $4.

Faulkner · Mar 16, 2024

I like the movie well enough, but I love the Sackett series of books.

Alk8944 · Mar 16, 2024

If you really want to know The Sacketts, read the books like Faulkner said! They cover a lot more than the movie that doesn't even cover the content of one volume of the set. They are excellent and probably just as good as Louie L'amours work.

lihpster · Mar 16, 2024

Alk8944 said:
If you really want to know The Sacketts, read the books like Faulkner said! They cover a lot more than the movie that doesn't even cover the content of one volume of the set. They are excellent and probably just as good as Louie L'amours work.

Just as good?

22lrfan · Mar 16, 2024

I've never seen the movies but I have all of Louis L Amour's books on the Sacketts. It's probably been 15 years since I last read them. I need to dig them out and go through them again.

30-30remchester · Mar 16, 2024

I grew up around some real cowhands. One was a pool rider on the Flattops of Colorado. Spent his entire summer alone in a cabin in the high country. His only gun was a single shot 22 Savage rifle with a welded together firing pin and his knife was a Colonial barlow bought new for $5.

RobertJ. · Mar 16, 2024

I started reading Louis L'Amour when I was about twelve, and have read at least most of them, some several times. Growing up in SE Alaska and having no TV lead me to read almost anything I could get my hands on, and I always recognized that his novels were pretty accurate in the firearms department. "Sitka" was one of my favorites since a lot of it took place in the vicinity where we lived.

Here's one of my favorite scenes from "The Sacketts":

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Goldstar225 · Mar 16, 2024

I read my first Louis L'Amour book when I was 15 (51 years ago) and got hooked. While the shooting exploits are some times stretching it I really enjoy the series and have almost every one of his books in the leatherette collection. My favorite? The Daybreakers. The movies based on his books typically are well done and worth watching.

THE PILGRIM · Mar 16, 2024

A few ago, saw Buck Taylor at a SASS event.

Mike SC Hunter · Mar 17, 2024

I was owned and read all of Louis l'amour's books. Liked all the movies even though they deviated from the books some.

JohnRippert · Mar 17, 2024

Dad collected almost the whole set of Louis L'Amour titles in the faux leather hardback form. When he passed they came to me. I have added many of the missing volumes and I think I only have 3 left to find.

While I really like the Sackett series of his books, my favorite is The Walking Drum. Yol Bolsun!

soFlaNative · Mar 17, 2024

Goldstar225 said:
My favorite? The Daybreakers. The movies based on his books typically are well done and worth watching.

Going off memory only but wasn't the Sackett movie based on The Daybreakers?
Got hooked about age 15 and again when my parents retired to the area the Sackett clan began in NC.

CajunBass · Mar 17, 2024

RobertJ. said:
Here's one of my favorite scenes from "The Sacketts":

I consider this to be the best gunfight scene ever filmed. And not a shot fired.

I'm also one who's read a lot of the Sacketts books. I don't know if I got all of them, but I got a lot of them.

CH4 · Mar 17, 2024

Never seen the movie, just read the book. Sounds like it’s worth watching.

kamloops67 · Mar 17, 2024

I learned to read with Louis Lamour novels , not much else to do after dark on the ranch
My parents had a every title , our favourites were the sackett family series

Old 44 Guy · Mar 17, 2024

I have watched the movie many times on tape. Watched it last night n TV. Excellent movie with lots of stars in the cast.

lihpster · Mar 17, 2024

soFlaNative said:
Going off memory only but wasn't the Sackett movie based on The Daybreakers?
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It was based on two novels, The Daybreakers and Sackett.

boykinlp · Mar 17, 2024

Faulkner said:
I like the movie well enough, but I love the Sackett series of books.

Hopefully, you can help me out. I love The Sackett’s movie and like to read too. I understand Louis L’Amour wrote many books about the family, and I can’t get or read them all, but would like to add some to my library. Which do you recommend to get if I wanted to get 5-6 and what order to read them in? The more suggestions, the better. I will try to do whatever the most folks suggest.
Larry

soFlaNative · Mar 17, 2024

boykinlp said:
Hopefully, you can help me out. I love The Sackett’s movie and like to read too. I understand Louis L’Amour wrote many books about the family, and I can’t get or read them all, but would like to add some to my library. Which do you recommend to get if I wanted to get 5-6 and what order to read them in? The more suggestions, the better. I will try to do whatever the most folks suggest.
Larry

You might enjoy the list of books chronologically from this link:
The Sacketts Books In Publication & Chronological Order - BookSeries.org

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