Crossfire Trail
Director: Simon Wincer
Genre: Western, Costume drama, Film adaptation, Action/Adventure, Romantic drama, Romance Film, Television movie, Drama
Year: 2001
Country: United States of America
Language: English Language
Starring: Christian Kane, Tom Selleck, Mark Harmon, Wilford Brimley, Barry Corbin, Virginia Madsen, William Sanderson, Brad Johnson, David O'Hara, Rex Linn, Joanna Miles, Patrick Kilpatrick
Crossfire Trail is a Turner Network Television film starring Tom Selleck in the role of Rafael "Rafe" Covington, a wanderer known for his honesty and steadfastness who keeps his word to a dying friend despite great adversity to himself. The tagline of the picture is "A hero is measured by the enemies he makes." The film is based on Louis L'Amour's 1954 Western novel of the same name. Crossfire Trail was originally broadcast on cable television on January 21, 2001.
Selleck has also starred in other L'Amour novels adapted to films, including Sackett and The Shadow Riders with Sam Elliott, another veteran of L'Amour motion pictures. Selleck is believable in his portrayal of the laid-back cowboy certain in his beliefs, which he reveals were taught by his mother who hoped that her son would have become a Jesuit priest. Covington says that he has difficulty with the lesson on "turning the other cheek" when faced with evil.
L'Amour's short story "Hondo" was the first of his voluminous works converted to film through a 1953 picture starring John Wayne and Geraldine Page. Hondo won L'Amour an Academy Award nomination. His books eventually sold over 260 million copies.
Simon Wincer, the
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