Conagher, The Coolest Western Ever Made 

Didn't know it was a movie, but Louis L'amour's Conagher is one of the best western novels I've ever read, and I've read lots. No glamour, no heroics, two superbly drawn, real, lead characters, and one of the most original, well constructed and believable romances I've come across in literature of any genre. L'amour at his best and most realistic recreation of the wild west. Ranks right up there with Shane, but far more unusual and original/unique than the latter.

I’ve always been a fan of John Wayne & Clint Eastwood, but when it comes to a real cowboy, nobody is better than Sam Elliott!

Sam Elliot represent (to us across the pond) the real American cowboy.

Sam Elliot's moustache has more hair in it than most men have hair on their heads.

Love that Sam Elliot voice. Way he clocks his head. Priceless

He was MADE for westerns.

Best western ever. I watched this all the time with my Dad. He's passed on, but for Father's day, it's the movie I put on.

Great story, great film. One of my favorite lines: "Who give ya the black eye?" "Nobody gave it to me - I fought for it."

“Mister, nobody would a fool go into the rocks after a wounded Apache.” Goosebumps.

Anything with Sam Elliot in is top quality .

Love Sam Elliott westerns, Conagher is one of my all time favorites

Cool is an understatement

Sam Elliott could read the damn phone book and I'd be watching on the edge of my seat!!

When ever I read about tell sackett I think of Sam Elliot fits the part to a tee

This is a great book and this is a great movie.

Louis Lamour,Sam Elliot .There's a pair to ride the river with.

Been a big John Wayne fan since the '50's. But this L'Amour tale with Sam at the helm is one of my very favorite westerns. Read the paperback every spring and watch the movie every summer. Hard to beat....

One of my favorites. “Makes a man wonder what he did with his summer wages,” is a line you don’t forget; especially if you’ve rolled out your bed in a cow camp.

Conagher, one of the classic “knights of the plains” story lines fashioned after King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table legends. Our western legends!

Love the book & movie & Mr. ELLIOT in it.

I’ve never read any of the novels but I do love a good western. And man, this is one of them. Everything about it had the look and feel of a western: the dialogue, the clothing, the scenery. As if you could feel the dust.

Thank you very much. I had never heard of this Western, and this scene is really excellent, with the Desperados and they're smart talk, and the well-meaning proprietor, and tough guy Sam Elliott. I was expecting a blowout. This looks like a really good movie, and the set is excellent along with the lighting and the color!

Con Conagher is my favorite one book character of Louis L'Amour. Thankfully the movie stays pretty true to the book.

I can't tell you how many times I've said "I take a man's money, I ride for the brand." Love this movie.

"Mister, I'm in a swapping mood." I'm totally saying that the next time I walk into the store.

I've never seen the movie, but that's the coolest western scene I've watched in a long time. What a couple he and Katherine Ross make: the personification of rugged manhood and one of the most beautiful and classiest women ever to grace the screen.

A lot of the old Irish surnames have to do with warring. Kelly ; battle warrior. Murphy; seahound. Scully; axe warrior etc. Conagher can mean either ( depending on the county ) " good place for rabbits " or " good place for firewood ." All round good place! May the wind be at your back and Conagher on your side!

i will not argue who is the best cowboy, you know them all. but SAM ELLIOTT is hard to beat!

Love this movie💖💖💖

Let me tell you a lil' something about Sam Elliot. That man won't die, instead he will simply pass into legend.

One of my favorites. Own the DVD and have watched it at least 50 times. Louis L'Amour wrote great books.

One of the best L'Amour novels and one of the best western movies, ever. The character Conagher is a humble, honorable man whose honesty and loyalty are unquestionable. There was a time when such things were of paramount importance to men, and I'm lucky to have lived the first part of my life back then -- such men helped mold my character, and I'll always be grateful, though I doubt I measure up to the Old Ones. Thanks for posting this scene, Max. --- Old Matt

Sam Elliot, here in Texas, represents the Real American Cowboy as well. I know a lot of real, actual Cowboys. He’s the real deal, just don’t talk as much as much as an actual Cowboy

Great Movie. Love Sam Elliott. Excellent cast. True to the book. I've watched this film dozens of times.

One of the best movies ever made!!!

L'amour wrote the novel----Sam and Katharine co-wrote Conagher into a teleplay with Jeff Meyer. It's a cowboy's cowboy movie.

I remember when this came out on TNT, we recorded it on VHS! Eventually got it on DVD. It's a must have for sure!

I agree, it is one of the best westerns ever made and for all the reason you mentioned.

One of my favorite cowboys of all time.😉

You can always tell a tough cowboy by the size of the mustache.

I was named Conagher after this movie

Love this movie and the book.

It was the coolest western ever made and sam elliot played it to a T. "Any man who kills when he could do otherwise is plumb loco." " A man should pay what he owes." "If a man needs help, he better not start out at all." Yeah, I liked Conager.

That was a terrific movie, and the one when I fell in love with Sam Elliot.

A lesser known movie with Richard Farnsworth called "The Grey Fox", has a similar cult following. Great story and supporting cast. (Bill Miner emerges from prison at the turn of the century, to a world he doesn't know.) It's one of my all time favorites!

Never saw the movie, but now I want to. I read many Louis L'Amour books.

He is my favorite actor....he knows how to do a western!!! I believe that I have seen every movie he has been in!!! Need to make more westerns, especially with Sam !!

I havent seen this but Sam Elliot just sold it to me

I actually liked the store owner for doing a deal and even tossing in a few extra rounds.

I think you meant Sam Elliot is the Coolest western movie star, in which case; I can only speak for myself, my Shitzoo and every living, or dead, female on the planet. "You are correct sir!".

Sam Elliot became the epitome of the hard as nails, man of few words, western hero. The first time I ever remember seeing him, however, was at a drive-in movie in the 70s when he was a VERY young man playing the handsome, well built lead in a low budget movie titled "Lifeguard: Every Girls Summer Dream". Truth be told, the only reason I went was because the girl I was dating at the time wanted to see it, but in spite of the title it actually turned out to be a good movie, mainly because of Elliot's portrayal of the character. He also played Army officer Sam "Night Clerk" Damon in the television mini-series "Once An Eagle" based on the best selling book spanning WWI, the interwar years and WWII. I swear, that man could read the dictionary on screen and make it interesting!

I like the scene when he first meets Seaborn Tay when Tay asks him, "You got any sand? Any time you feel you're not up to the job I'll give you two days grub and a head start."

Sam Elliot is just as awesome in real life as he is in the movies... He's a man's man....Strong yet humble.

just brought this film , first rate Western , sam makes a great cowboy.

I have this movie and a few others with Sam Elliot in... For me it's equal to John Wayne and Clint Eastwood westerns.... they are well worth watching and keeping.. This one seems the most real for the time...Probably less well known and quite under rated too?

Yes I have to admit this is one of my favorite westerns that is modern made, the other one I liked was Quigley Down Under

after the apache story no one was gonna even follow him out ,SAM even rides a steel horse

Conagher undoubtedly the best western I've ever seen! Perfect dialogue, perfectly acted. Perfect cast!

When you want a western weekend this is on the list. Fantastic adaptation of a louis l'Amour book. Sam Elliott is what we see in our mind's eye of old time cowboys. I almost wrote down my 10 all time western movies. Nope, won't do it. Too many good ones. But this movie is on the list. The cast in this movie was outstanding. Katherine Ross, Nuff said. Thanks Sam.

Some years ago I was shopping for a man and wanted one as sexy as Sam Elliot. Somebody heard me and my man was not only all that, but a master shooter, a master welder, and the finest man I ever knew except only my daddy.

This was one of those books turned into a movie where the casting people were actual geniuses.

That was a great book. Conagher is one of my favorite books of all time. Really good reading! You get where I'm going with this post? Fantastic BOOK! Think about it.

Conagher has been my favorite western since it first came out in '91. Realistic, believable people pioneering the west. Loved the very believable romance between Sam Elliott and his lovely wife, Kathryn Ross. I play this movie every so often. For me, it's like putting on my most comfy jeans and soft sweater and curling up on the couch with a good book! Two favorite scenes: when he first sees her standing in the doorway to her cabin and when he comes in the house to her humble, rustic but beautiful candle light supper, and she walks around the table serving coffee. Love the look in Sam Elliott's eyes and on his face.;)

Every time I hit a tumbleweed I think of this book and movie.

The best western. Love this movie

GREAT Novel.... GREAT Movie.... GREAT WESTERN!!!!

Produced by Sam Elliott and his wife Kathrine Ross as a TV movie. I’m glad to see it get the recognition it deserves! It has it all: Western action, romance and Cowboy machismo!! Many wonderful character actors in the supporting cast as well! Billy Greenbush, Barry Corbin, Ken Curtis, Dub Taylor and his son Buck, Gavin O’Herlihy (awesome villain), Paul Koslo (another villain), the great Pepe Serna, the amazing James Gammon, James Parks and Daniel Quinn! So many more actors as well! I own a copy of it and watch it on TV as well!

One of the top five westerns on my list. Might even be number one.

classic movie, only found few months ago, hollywood is too busy making films for 14 year olds,

I finally got to watch this today, dunno how I missed it almost thirty years ago. Louis L'Amour was my grandpa's favorite western author & this movie is a great adaptation of his style. Highly recommend if you appreciate old school westerns...

Sam Elliot is what you would expect a cowboy to look like.

If y'all haven't seen this movie... get 'er done! Unquestionably one of the best. Has every element of the classic western. The smoldering love story is the under current to a very manly western with something for everyone. Sam Elliot and Katherine Ross bring it to life.

Reckon Sams Moustache had it's own dressing room

Louis L´Amour is one of the best!

"You're a hard man Conagher." IT'S A HARD WORLD. Wonderful writing.

I have this movie, I can watch it over and over again. one of my all time favorite. also really like the movie the quick and the Dead staring Sam Elliot as well.

Love the coyote howl in the background.

Loved the book and the movie,favorite western author.

Sam Elliott, a relative on a side limb in my family tree, is in my top 3 favorite western actors.

In my top westerns with some great lines.

Louis L'amour and James Warner Bellah...the two finest western writers of our time. Zane Grey had some fair books but I made it thru 7 months in two full leg casts (courtesy of the NVA) back in '69 on a diet of pretty much every book L'amour wrote. Lonesome Dove was a fine series of books but I'll take the Sackett's and their saga.

I'll have to disagree. Tombstone is the coolest Western every made in my opinion.

Most def one of the best westerns made

Man, I guess I've been living under a rock, as I've never heard of this movie. Loved this clip and now I've got to go search it out. Looks very cool indeed. Thanks for sharing!

good the bad and the ugly was the best western ever made

Sam Elliott great actor ! Legend .

Watched it... they kept so much of the awesome dialog I remember from when I first read the book when I was 14. And all the times I've read it since lol. Great film. Thanks for posting this as I had no idea it was made into a movie until I saw it.

"I'm in a swapping mood" 😉

Sam Elliot has a Gary Cooper type flavor to his cowboy character 👍 👌

thank you for this, i will be watchin' this movie, it's got some serious am-be-ants

Hollywood can't make movies like this no more cartoons is what they like now !

SAM BRINGS IT LIFE,ASTOUNDING ACTOR

Sam Elliot’s voice. Any man would love to sound like that. Gregory Peck, Morgan Freeman, James Earl Jones, and I might add Walter Cronkite if he could loose the tv rhythm news anchors used, all have that voice. But Sam had THE voice.

Sam Elliot is the definition of badass...

Certainly on my favorites list.

One can just feel the relief from the cold in the "swapping" scene. Funny how cold things were inside, besides the proprietor, though.

The Apache is probably hiding in that moustache! Sam Elliott’s moustache had its own movie contract!

You're a hard man Mr. Conagher...It's a hard country kid.

One of best western ever

I sure wish Sam Elliott and Tom Selleck would do at least one more good L'amour westerns. I worked in the film biz for about 14 years and the story goes that when Sam did Conagher he was going to do it exactly like the L'amour story. no Hollywood crap. Sam is the man for real.