Longarm (film)

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Longarm
Based on	Based on the Jove Books series of the same name written under the house pseudonym, "Tabor Evans".
Written by	David Chisholm; Tabor Evans
Directed by	Virgil W. Vogel
Starring	Daphne Ashbrook; Rene Auberjonois; Diedrich Bader
Theme music composer	Richard Stone
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
Production
Executive producer	David Chisholm
Production locations	Chama, New Mexico; Cook Ranch, Galisteo, New Mexico; Eaves Movie Ranch - 105 Rancho Alegre Road, Santa Fe, New Mexico; Ghost Ranch, Abiquiu, New Mexico
Cinematography	Robert C. Jessup
Running time	73 minutes
Production companies	Charles E. Sellier Productions; Eaves Movie Ranch; Universal Television
Original release
Network	ABC
Release	March 6, 1988

Longarm is a 1988 western television film loosely based on the Jove Books series of the same name written under the house pseudonym, "Tabor Evans".

The film, set in the Territory of New Mexico in the 1870s, stars John Terlesky as the titular Deputy United States Marshal Custis Long, and features René Auberjonois as real-life territorial governor (and author of Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ) Lew Wallace.^[1] The film was intended as a pilot for a TV series based on the books, but the program was not picked up.^[1]^[2]

The "occasionally humorous script" was written by David J. Chisholm, a "veteran Western writer".^[2]

References

^ ^a ^b Alvin H. Marill, Television Westerns: Six Decades of Sagebrush Sheriffs, Scalawags, and Sidewinders (2011), p. 118.
^ ^a ^b Gary A. Yoggy, Riding the Video Range: The Rise and Fall of the Western on Television (1995), p. 552.

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