Gus's reaction after Jake Spoon spurred his horse to hang himself is some of the finest acting you will ever see and not a word even needed to be spoken. The sheer look of shock and trying to keep his composure was brilliantly done.
One of my favorite line of the movie. “I’ll say this for you son, you’re the type of man that’s a pleasure to hang. If all you can talk is guff, go talk it to the devil.”
Me also....Augustus and Woodrow need to be reincarnated and deliver this Justice to the murderers that deserve it....immediate hangings...none of the ACLU appeals nonsense
RIP Robert Urick. Robert Duvall, Danny Glover and Tommy Lee Jones have never and will never do a better job in anything they have done. Long after they've gone, the actors who brought Lonesome Dove to life will be remembered as having grabbed us by the heart and ripped it out with this scene. Bravo boys, bravo.
@Ken Johnson - Well said. This was the most moving scene of the entire series. Well … that and when Gus died … and the scene where Call buried Gus. Ah hell, it is like you said. lol
"Did you buy them 3 cowboys you shot? Did you buy them two farmers you burned?" "P you and Newt get your ropes." Told with the stoicism and 1000 yard stare of a man that's looking at a dead liar in front of him. Resolved in the duty that he is tasked with. It's such good acting
They recorded the scene of Jake spurring his horse twice. Robert Duvall said the second time something took over him and he was able to give his great reaction. He also said that it is his favorite and best act of all time.
The scene where they hang Jake was brilliantly written and acted. Jake's character was on full display at the end from not recalling Lori when Gus told him that he found her to his humor about being hung by his friends instead of strangers. I didn't think that they were going to go through with it, and then he spurred the horse himself. I am not one for the dramatic, but their reactions along with the music and the call of the mourning dove were very moving.
Jake was feigning indifference to Lorena by pretending not to recognize the name. He did that as a concession of her to Gus. He may have felt betrayed by her and her loyalty to Gus, but he also knew she would be taken care of. He wasn't as cold-hearted as the other bandits were.
@@dclipper8052 he wasn’t feigning anything. The book says he was so drunk, tired, and dazed that he genuinely didn’t remember who she was for a moment.
Last two minutes of this clip is some of the most poignant beauty in cinematic history. Gus’s reaction and the way the camera trials him through the swinging bodies. And the music couldn’t be more moving.
Jake Spoon is a tragic character. Makes you wonder what would’ve happened to him if he stayed with Gus and Call. He was once a Texas Ranger. A symbol of law and order. He fell in with the wrong crowd and died with them
Jake was always of shady character. He walked a close line of being a criminal even when he came back to Lonesome Dove. He had killed a dentist by "accident". He used Lori and was not a good person. He would have ended up hung even if not falling in with the outlaws.
Remember to put the times in perspective , Jake may have been an ex Ranger , but many of those folks were a pretty rough crowd , they often didn't join for some high principals , but for the excitement.
Gus once said, "Jake just kind of drifts... any wind can blow him." It was an excellent assessment of Jake's character. He always did what was easiest, and unfortunately for him that included going along with several killings because it was easier than fighting or running.
@Melo Bryant I've been smoking weed over 20 years. It's never occurred to me to murder folks, mutilate folks or rob folks. Mainly it just makes me eat to many biscuits, watch tooany cartoons and hassle the missus in the middle of the night for a fuck.
Andy aka Rudolf Hessiansack in the novel, it occurred to him many times.. but the point was made that Jake was more prone to feel sorry for himself and blame others for his problems, rather than taking action on his own. That’s another element of the last scene, that he finally redeemed himself a bit, by essentially killing himself rather than his friends having to kill him.
Apparently Frog Lip had a very good horse, and Jake thought of running, only to realise he could not get away. The other gang members had seen Jake winning substantial money at cards, on the day he joined them, which gave them another reason to pursue him if he ran. After Frog Lip was killed Jake should have galloped away - I suppose this is where his weak character showed, he had a chance and did not take it.
Even though this is sad, Jake deserved this. He wasn’t a good person before, beating Lori, leaving her to get kidnapped by Blue Duck to gamble and falling in with people who admitted to wanting to rob banks that turned out to be blood thirsty murders.
The thing about lonesome dove if u watched it from the time they headed out til they got to their destination it was like they was cursed...Many of them died, All of them Damaged in some form,it was just gritty scene after gritty scene...Had some good acting and beautiful cinematic pictures though but the plot was just such a bummer...
Brilliant book and mini series. Every character represented an imbalanced characteristic. Cpt. Call had pride, Pea Eye doubt, Jake moral weakness, July Johnson ignorance. All except Augustus McCrae who had it all.
Gavan O'Herlihy made a great villian with Dan Suggs. I bought the character as one evil MFer. But I also admire his bravery. Putting your hand in front of the chambers on a revolver carbine is dangerous.
you ride with outlaws you die with outlaws still one of my favorite moments in western cinema although hello bob from young guns 2 is a close second makes it even cooler it really happened
The movie is very entertaining. But the hanging of Jake seems a little extreme for a couple of cowboys who got their stake steeling horses and cattle from Mexico.
One thing that’s interesting is that Gavin o heilihy is one of the guys from happy days. I think he played Ralph. Richie Cunningham’s brother. He was in a death wish movie opposite Charles Bronson. But I really couldn’t believe this was that guy in lonesome dove. It just goes to prove they’re people like us trying to make a living. Only they make a very good living.
So does anybody know exactly for 100% for sure whether or not what year it is that Lonesome Dove actually takes place in and where in which when you’re Reading The Book Written by the Author Larry McMurtry it Doesn’t give you any exact date and that all that’s mentioned is that is the Indians had just Killed General George Custer right before Deets was killed by one of them later on and so I’ve been strongly wondering on just how soon it was right after the Battle of Little Big Horn and Custer’s Defeat is it that the events of Lonesome Dove begin to Start with Taking Place I wonder and that is it actually in late 1876, or early 1877, or in the Following years of 78, 79, or maybe even 1880 perhaps to be exact who knows for sure ? 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔 ?
"The reason why they forgot us is because we didn't get killed. If a thousand Comanches had cornered us in a gully somewhere and wiped us out the way the Sioux just did with Custer, we'd be remembered. They'd be writing songs about us for the next hundred years."
Jake was always too leaky a vessel to put much faith in. Jake liked to joke. He didn't like to work. I have exactly those same failings myself. He was a fancy dresser who liked clean shirts and, by God, he never said a word to a pig.
Why burn the farmers? For reputation or malice? If I was an outlaw I think I'd have better things to do with my time than mutilating some poor bastard scraping a living and minding his own business.
Alien Chook I think Gus was jealous of Jake and hated the way he treated Laurie. But I wouldn't have hung him. Jake should have killed that psycho he showed tremendous weakness in not doing that.
Strange behavior from Jake Spoon who was, after all, supposed to be a lawman. Being a lazy gambler is one thing. Throwing in with cold blooded murderers is quite another. Spoon deserved to be hanged for his participation. Too bad he didn't just shoot the lead outlaw when he had the chance!
Jake referred to the two farmers as sodbusters. Call stares hard at him, real hard. Hey Jake how do you know Call's father was not a farmer? And, Call grew up on a farm. He called them the two farmers. You got your just results, you are a coward like so many who ran like pansies from Vietnam service.
Gus's reaction after Jake Spoon spurred his horse to hang himself is some of the finest acting you will ever see and not a word even needed to be spoken. The sheer look of shock and trying to keep his composure was brilliantly done.
Duvall himself said it was the best bit of acting he'd ever done.
Yes it was
I totally agree. Gus's character made this show what it was. All the acting was great, but Robert Duval was awesome in this show
Pity spoon twitched his head when he was supposed to be dead.
Could not agree more.
One of my favorite line of the movie. “I’ll say this for you son, you’re the type of man that’s a pleasure to hang. If all you can talk is guff, go talk it to the devil.”
welderhelper79 Suggs, not son. They were the Suggs brothers.
Me also....Augustus and Woodrow need to be reincarnated and deliver this Justice to the murderers that deserve it....immediate hangings...none of the ACLU appeals nonsense
@@coryander1341 I had to check that and you're right!
Taught him a lesson
It’s a mini series not a movie
“I didn’t see no line, Gus.”
The way he says that always breaks my damn heart.
Mine too mine too
"I was just tryin' to get through the territory... without gettin' scalped."
RIP Robert Urick. Robert Duvall, Danny Glover and Tommy Lee Jones have never and will never do a better job in anything they have done. Long after they've gone, the actors who brought Lonesome Dove to life will be remembered as having grabbed us by the heart and ripped it out with this scene. Bravo boys, bravo.
@Ken Johnson - Well said. This was the most moving scene of the entire series. Well … that and when Gus died … and the scene where Call buried Gus. Ah hell, it is like you said. lol
"Say goodbye to your brothers. I expect you got them into this."
"Did you buy them 3 cowboys you shot? Did you buy them two farmers you burned?" "P you and Newt get your ropes." Told with the stoicism and 1000 yard stare of a man that's looking at a dead liar in front of him. Resolved in the duty that he is tasked with. It's such good acting
"Put 'em on their horses."
@@LordZontarJust ask Jake. We done buy them horses.
“To pick out a tree to hang you from son”
What a line.
The saying “show me your friends, and I’lol show you your future” has never been more true than in the case of Jake Spoon.
They recorded the scene of Jake spurring his horse twice. Robert Duvall said the second time something took over him and he was able to give his great reaction. He also said that it is his favorite and best act of all time.
Burying Jake,and the two Sugg Brothers.The older,and baddest Brother they let hang because he was not worthy of burial.
The scene where they hang Jake was brilliantly written and acted. Jake's character was on full display at the end from not recalling Lori when Gus told him that he found her to his humor about being hung by his friends instead of strangers. I didn't think that they were going to go through with it, and then he spurred the horse himself. I am not one for the dramatic, but their reactions along with the music and the call of the mourning dove were very moving.
God, what is with you guys? Of course Jake knew who Lorie is. He was feigning indifference.
Jake was feigning indifference to Lorena by pretending not to recognize the name. He did that as a concession of her to Gus. He may have felt betrayed by her and her loyalty to Gus, but he also knew she would be taken care of.
He wasn't as cold-hearted as the other bandits were.
I agree with you I think they was just trying to scare him. And he killed himself I could be wrong tho but that's how I interpreted it.
@@dclipper8052 he wasn’t feigning anything. The book says he was so drunk, tired, and dazed that he genuinely didn’t remember who she was for a moment.
this was such a great mini series, the best
Finest western ever made.
Without a doubt.
Tombstone comes in a very close second.
Started with the finest Western ever written.
“Jake liked to joke. He didn’t like to work. I got those exact same failings myself.”
So do I Gus
Dan, the bad guy, was Chuck Cunningham on "Happy Days". The first one. They actually had a second Chuck before he disappeared for good.
Last two minutes of this clip is some of the most poignant beauty in cinematic history. Gus’s reaction and the way the camera trials him through the swinging bodies. And the music couldn’t be more moving.
Tommy Lee breaking up on the inside but not showing it on the outside.
Jake Spoon is a tragic character. Makes you wonder what would’ve happened to him if he stayed with Gus and Call. He was once a Texas Ranger. A symbol of law and order. He fell in with the wrong crowd and died with them
Jake was always of shady character. He walked a close line of being a criminal even when he came back to Lonesome Dove. He had killed a dentist by "accident". He used Lori and was not a good person. He would have ended up hung even if not falling in with the outlaws.
@@richardmorrow8796 Jake's to much of a leaky vessel to put much faith in
Act like a thug & you'll get a slug.
To me it was a morality tale that it sometimes it's more dangerous to be a weakling than to stand strong.
Remember to put the times in perspective , Jake may have been an ex Ranger , but many of those folks were a pretty rough crowd , they often didn't join for some high principals , but for the excitement.
..taking his leave a little slow.
One of the best lines in a movie full of great ones
Gus once said, "Jake just kind of drifts... any wind can blow him." It was an excellent assessment of Jake's character. He always did what was easiest, and unfortunately for him that included going along with several killings because it was easier than fighting or running.
One of the most powerful scenes in any movie ever. The pain is so real on their faces. As bad as when deets and gus dies.
"YOU GOT SOMETHING AGAINST STEALING HORSES?"
"Dont happen to be my line of work is all."
Roy's and Eddie's laughter came to an abrupt end when Woodrow went a looking for that hanging tree
Just ask Jake. We done buy them horses.
Some of the best acting ever captured on film
They just left Dan a hangin'. Lol
Looks like 14 people that disliked this need a poke lol
Jake died fine. He died like a man. And he didn't want his blood on his friends hands.
I wish justice was this swift and sure!
That is until you're in a position like Jake Spoon and wishing you could at least have a trial.
Yeah all the psycho killers today could do with this treatment!
@Melo Bryant I've been smoking weed over 20 years. It's never occurred to me to murder folks, mutilate folks or rob folks. Mainly it just makes me eat to many biscuits, watch tooany cartoons and hassle the missus in the middle of the night for a fuck.
@@usnva5638 Even today someone like Mr Spoon would meet the same fate in certain states even for just association with the actual criminals
Best movie ever.
"You ride with an outlaw you die with an outlaw, sorry you had to cross the line."
"MAN BURNER AND HORSE THEEF"
Just ask Jake. We done buy them horses.
@@dannythomas417 "You buy them three cowboys you shot? You buy those two farmers you burned? P, you and Newt, get your ropes. Tie 'em up."
@@dannythomas417 "Put 'em on their horses."
Gus: You might like to know we got Laurie back.Jake: Who? What fine writing and acting
Urich deserved an Emmy nomination also
I was waiting for jake to cut and run from those shit heads. I was willing it, but he let us down. RIP spoon.
Andy aka Rudolf Hessiansack in the novel, it occurred to him many times.. but the point was made that Jake was more prone to feel sorry for himself and blame others for his problems, rather than taking action on his own. That’s another element of the last scene, that he finally redeemed himself a bit, by essentially killing himself rather than his friends having to kill him.
Apparently Frog Lip had a very good horse, and Jake thought of running, only to realise he could not get away. The other gang members had seen Jake winning substantial money at cards, on the day he joined them, which gave them another reason to pursue him if he ran. After Frog Lip was killed Jake should have galloped away - I suppose this is where his weak character showed, he had a chance and did not take it.
“Get ur boots off, Boys”
Even though this is sad, Jake deserved this. He wasn’t a good person before, beating Lori, leaving her to get kidnapped by Blue Duck to gamble and falling in with people who admitted to wanting to rob banks that turned out to be blood thirsty murders.
The thing about lonesome dove if u watched it from the time they headed out til they got to their destination it was like they was cursed...Many of them died, All of them Damaged in some form,it was just gritty scene after gritty scene...Had some good acting and beautiful cinematic pictures though but the plot was just such a bummer...
Tremendous plot!
Kinda like life.. which was the point.
It shows that Jake was a coward.
Letting himself be bullied into going along with these murders.
The fight happened at night in the book. Jake didn't know where he shot...
Otomic Ans
Best movie ever!
If have some dirt that needs broken up, who ya gonna call? Sodbusters!
Brilliant book and mini series. Every character represented an imbalanced characteristic. Cpt. Call had pride, Pea Eye doubt, Jake moral weakness, July Johnson ignorance. All except Augustus McCrae who had it all.
Funny thing is Gus didn’t even like Jake when he was younger but they grew close as they aged.
“ Pete you and Newt get yer ropes “ the Captain didn’t fuck around ...!!
Gavan O'Herlihy made a great villian with Dan Suggs. I bought the character as one evil MFer.
But I also admire his bravery. Putting your hand in front of the chambers on a revolver carbine is dangerous.
Put em on their horses!
you ride with outlaws you die with outlaws still one of my favorite moments in western cinema although hello bob from young guns 2 is a close second makes it even cooler it really happened
Please don’t compare Lonesome Dove to YG 2, they’re not in the same category
@@bigblock67camaro they are both have some stupid unrealistic stuff but are all n all good films
Seeing call it hurt him dammm
It did on the inside but he hid it on the outside.
The movie is very entertaining. But the hanging of Jake seems a little extreme for a couple of cowboys who got their stake steeling horses and cattle from Mexico.
One thing that’s interesting is that Gavin o heilihy is one of the guys from happy days. I think he played Ralph. Richie Cunningham’s brother. He was in a death wish movie opposite Charles Bronson. But I really couldn’t believe this was that guy in lonesome dove. It just goes to prove they’re people like us trying to make a living. Only they make a very good living.
I don’t think “bulletproof “ was a word used back then. I however love the movie.
I thought they took their boots off..
Spenser for Hangin'.
Jakey Jakey about to make a big...mistaky
Love it
Hell of a movie even though Jake got to keep his boots on
I don't really understand why the one outlaw hated "sodbusters" so much.
Are you ready? If I said no would it make a difference?
Western Style from Horseback .... nice
So does anybody know exactly for 100% for sure whether or not what year it is that Lonesome Dove actually takes place in and where in which when you’re Reading The Book Written by the Author Larry McMurtry it Doesn’t give you any exact date and that all that’s mentioned is that is the Indians had just Killed General George Custer right before Deets was killed by one of them later on and so I’ve been strongly wondering on just how soon it was right after the Battle of Little Big Horn and Custer’s Defeat is it that the events of Lonesome Dove begin to Start with Taking Place I wonder and that is it actually in late 1876, or early 1877, or in the Following years of 78, 79, or maybe even 1880 perhaps to be exact who knows for sure ?
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The reference to Custer's last stand would lead toward 1876 or 77.
"The reason why they forgot us is because we didn't get killed. If a thousand Comanches had cornered us in a gully somewhere and wiped us out the way the Sioux just did with Custer, we'd be remembered. They'd be writing songs about us for the next hundred years."
“PUT EM ON THEY HORSES”
Damn sodbusters 😜
Why didn’t they help frog lip when he was shot?
he's feelin bloody again aint he?
Aint he!
Damn sodbusters.
The idiot hates people who produce food for him to eat.
This is PUBG but in the old days.
Life and death without Jesus.
Jake was always too leaky a vessel to put much faith in. Jake liked to joke. He didn't like to work. I have exactly those same failings myself.
He was a fancy dresser who liked clean shirts and, by God, he never said a word to a pig.
The man’s got a real hard on for hating sodbusters.
Damn sodbusters can never be too dead to suit me.
“I swear”
Why burn the farmers? For reputation or malice? If I was an outlaw I think I'd have better things to do with my time than mutilating some poor bastard scraping a living and minding his own business.
Dan Suggs was clearly a psychopath who enjoyed killing and cruelty for its own sake. That's why.
@@LordZontarhe was a serial killer
Sadist psychopath probably
silver spoons = best actor of all time, yall wanna see a dead body?
Houston Straight Cole Representin' Youth Group Strong on the SV tip.......
Spelled with two “e’s”
I swear
Do you think Call or McCrea would have stopped Jake;s hanging at the last second & given him another chance?
Not a chance. This is what they mean when they talk about the Code of the West.
Val Killion You mean should have, stopped it?
Val Killion No sir it's called integrity. Not much of it left now days.
Gus says later he wished the Capt hadn't hung Jake as Gus missed his conversations.
Alien Chook I think Gus was jealous of Jake and hated the way he treated Laurie. But I wouldn't have hung him. Jake should have killed that psycho he showed tremendous weakness in not doing that.
I didn't skin no line .
Strange behavior from Jake Spoon who was, after all, supposed to be a lawman. Being a lazy gambler is one thing. Throwing in with cold blooded murderers is quite another. Spoon deserved to be hanged for his
participation. Too bad he didn't just shoot the lead outlaw when he had the chance!
He was just tryin to get through the territory without gettin scalped is all.
"Well y'see, Jake, he just lets any wind blow him along."
I won't tolerate no sugars lol
"shirkers"
shirker [ shur-ker ] /noun/ a person who evades work, duty, responsibility
It's up to you to put "sugars" into the lexicon yourself now
Jake referred to the two farmers as sodbusters. Call stares hard at him, real hard. Hey Jake how do you know Call's father was not a farmer? And, Call grew up on a farm. He called them the two farmers.
You got your just results, you are a coward like so many who ran like pansies from Vietnam service.