Lonesome Dove / Bandelaro

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I am watching Bandelaro with Jimmy Stewart, Dean Martin, and Raquel Welch along with a lot of other stars.

Haven't seen it in forty years.

It just struck me that a lot of the names in this movie are the same as in Lonesome Dove.

The sheriff is July Johnson. His deputy is named Roscoe.

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This has been noticed before

I used to post on a classic movies board where some nutcase would post at least a couple of times a year on how Lonesome Dove was a ripoff of Bandolero. Actually they have little in common besides those character names. Perhaps McMurtry did that as some sort of homage.

Betcha didn't know McMurtry originally began Lonesome Dove as a screenplay in the '70s, with the ex-rangers to have been played by John Wayne, Jimmy Stewart, and Henry Fonda. That film was never made, so McMurtry later reworked the material into a novel.

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The principals in the movie are talking about starting a ranch in Montana - bur concerned about the indians there.

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I'm sure a number of films have been concerned with starting ranches in Montana. The Tall Men (1955) with Clark Gable depicts a cattle drive to Montana from Texas.

That very funny scene in Bandolero where Jimmy Stewart and Dean Martin discuss the Indian situation is a classic:

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