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Shaughnessy: The Iron Marshal

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Shaughnessy: The Iron Marshal (aka Louis L'Amour's Shaughnessy) is a 1996 American Western television film aired on CBS. It is based on the 1979 Louis L'Amour novel, Shaughnessy.[1][2] The movie starred Matthew Settle as title character Tommy Shaughnessy, also starring Bo Hopkins, Stuart Whitman,[3] Linda Kozlowski, and Michael Jai White,[4] and was directed by Michael Rhodes.[2] The screenplay was written by William Blinn, who "served the same double duty" on Shaughnessy that he previously did for Disney's Davy Crockett miniseries in the 1980s.[5]

The plot of the movie, following that of the novel, involves "a tough Irish New Yorker who goes west to a troubled Kansas town, where he becomes the new marshal."[2] Shaughnessy: The Iron Marshal was developed as a prospective TV series for CBS,[1] but went no further than the TV movie. The movie was filmed in part at the California State Railroad Museum in Sacramento,[3] and on the Sierra Railroad in Tuolumne County, California.[6]


It was released on DVD in 2006.[7]

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  1. ^ a b Ed Andreychuk, Louis L'Amour on Film and Television, 2010, page 13.
  2. ^ a b c Leonard Mustazza, The Literary Filmography: A-L, 2006, p. 269.
  3. ^ a b Carlo Gaberscek, Kenny Stier, In Search of Western Movie Sites, 2014, page 209.
  4. ^ Ed Andreychuk, Louis L'Amour on Film and Television, 2010, page 167.
  5. ^ Ed Andreychuk, Louis L'Amour on Film and Television, 2010, page 171.
  6. ^ Jensen, Larry (2018). Hollywood's Railroads: Sierra Railroad. Vol. Two. Sequim, Washington: Cochetopa Press. p. 25. ISBN 9780692064726.
  7. ^ "Shaughnesy the Iron Marshall". DVD Talk. June 20, 2006.