The Sacketts | |
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Genre | Western |
Based on | The Daybreakers and Sackett by Louis L'Amour |
Screenplay by | Jim Byrnes |
Directed by | Robert Totten |
Starring | Sam Elliott Tom Selleck Jeff Osterhage Glenn Ford Ben Johnson |
Music by | Jerrold Immel |
Country of origin | United States |
Original language | English |
Production | |
Executive producers | Douglas Netter Jim Byrnes |
Producers | Douglas Netter Jim Byrnes |
Production locations | Buckskin Joe Frontier Town & Railway, 1193 Fremont County Road 3A, Canon City, Colorado Mescal, Arizona Old Tucson Studios, Arizona Red Hills Ranch, Sonora, California |
Cinematography | Jack Whitman |
Editor | Howard A. Smith |
Running time | 170 minutes |
Production companies | Douglas Netter Productions M.B. Scott Productions Shalako Enterprises (produced in association with) Media Productions |
Original release | |
Network | NBC |
Release | May 15, 1979 |
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The Sacketts is a 1979 American made-for-television Western miniseries 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]