![]() 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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