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The Sacketts

The Sacketts
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GenreWestern
Based onThe Daybreakers and Sackett
by Louis L'Amour
Screenplay byJim Byrnes
Directed byRobert Totten
StarringSam Elliott
Tom Selleck
Jeff Osterhage
Glenn Ford
Ben Johnson
Music byJerrold Immel
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish
Production
Executive producersDouglas Netter
Jim Byrnes
ProducersDouglas Netter
Jim Byrnes
Production locationsBuckskin Joe Frontier Town & Railway, 1193 Fremont County Road 3A, Canon City, Colorado
Mescal, Arizona
Old Tucson Studios, Arizona
Red Hills Ranch, Sonora, California
CinematographyJack Whitman
EditorHoward A. Smith
Running time170 minutes
Production companiesDouglas Netter Productions
M.B. Scott Productions
Shalako Enterprises (produced in association with) Media Productions
Original release
NetworkNBC
ReleaseMay 15, 1979 (1979-05-15)
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The Sacketts is a 1979 American made-for-television Western film directed by Robert Totten and starring Sam Elliott, Tom Selleck, Jeff Osterhage, and Glenn Ford. Based on the novels The Daybreakers (1960) and Sackett (1961) by Louis L'Amour, the film recounts the story of the Sackett brothers in 1869 who leave their Tennessee home and start a new life together in Santa Fe.[1]

  1. ^ "The Sacketts". Internet Movie Database. Retrieved July 24, 2012.