![]() ![]() McMurtry and Diana Ossana) show us the illegitimate son of a Texas Ranger, Woodrow Call, staring into the dusk sky, orphaned by his mother’s consumption and rejected by his father. ![]() McMurtry’s “Lonesome Dove” series (though it comes second in the chronology of the story), ends with an incident about a mule and a missed opportunity for violent score-settling, but the final moments of this mini-series (with a script by Mr. Both the first boy and the second have lost their mothers to the ravages of the 19th-century Texas frontier.Īt the start an Indian boy stands over the bloodied corpse of his mother, killed by white marauders, an experience that will forge his career as a fierce warrior, grounding it even deeper in the justifying soils of victimhood. “Comanche Moon,” a six-hour mini-series beginning Sunday on CBS, is based on Larry McMurtry’s novel of the same title, and begins as it ends, with the camera retreating from the image of a distraught child. ![]()
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