''Shaughnessy: The Iron Marshal'' (aka Louis L'Amour's Shaughnessy) is a 1996 American
Western television film aired on
CBS. It is based on the 1979
Louis L'Amour novel, ''Shaughnessy''.
[Ed Andreychuk, ''Louis L'Amour on Film and Television'', 2010, page 13.][Leonard Mustazza, ''The Literary Filmography: A-L'', 2006, p. 269.] The movie starred
Matthew Settle
Jeffrey Matthew Settle (born September 17, 1969) is an American actor. He is known for playing Captain Ronald Speirs on the HBO miniseries '' Band of Brothers'' and Rufus Humphrey on the CW teen drama series ''Gossip Girl''.
Early life
Settle w ...
as title character Tommy Shaughnessy, also starring
Bo Hopkins,
Stuart Whitman,
[Carlo Gaberscek, Kenny Stier, ''In Search of Western Movie Sites'', 2014, page 209.] Linda Kozlowski
Linda Kozlowski (born January 7, 1958) is an American former actress. She is best known for her role as Sue Charlton in the ''Crocodile Dundee'' film series (1986–2001), with the first installment earning her a Golden Globe Award nomination.
...
, and
Michael Jai White, and was directed by
Michael Rhodes.
The screenplay was written by
William Blinn, who "served the same double duty" on Shaughnessy that he previously did for Disney's ''Davy Crockett'' miniseries in the 1980s.
The plot of the movie, following that of the novel, involves "a tough Irish New Yorker who goes west to a troubled Kansas town, where he becomes the new marshal."
''Shaughnessy: The Iron Marshal'' was developed as a prospective TV series for CBS,
but went no further than the TV movie. The movie was filmed in part at the
California State Railroad Museum
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in
Sacramento
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and on the
Sierra Railroad in
Tuolumne County, California
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Tuolumne County comprises the ...
.
It was released on DVD in 2006.
External links
IMDb
References
1996 television films
1996 films
American Western (genre) television films
CBS films
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