Lonesome Dove - Jake's Fate

A clip from lonesome dove where Jake is hanged with Dan and his brothers for horse stealin and murderin.

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• Lonesome
• Dove
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• Spoon
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• Gavan
• O'Herlihy
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[carbide007]

Gus: (You know how it works Jake. You ride with an outlaw, you die like an outlaw. I'm sorry you crossed the line.) Too bad thugs and gang members don't get this kind of treatment these days. I'm afraid it's coming though

[TootiJo]

Duvalls reaction makes you believe he would have called off hanging Jake at the last second.

You're right, Urich was an excellent actor. What a shame he didn't get the opportunity to do more. He is greatly missed.

[TheWaynelds]

If i were one of those guys i wouldve just tried to run away so theyd shoot me instead of having to endure a slower painful death by hanging. Why the hell wouldnt they just execute them by shooting them instead anyway? It's kind of sick to give them a slower and painful death while they watch them squirm and gasp for air until they die.

[SidewaysBurnouts]

@carbide007 how about politicans and theives in washington.

[riomikewaters]

Bobby Duvall on his greatest moment as an actor (2011): "When we hung Jake Spoon, I had a good moment. It just happened, when we hung him. We hung our best friend for stealing horses - I had a good moment then..." (4:24)

"...I would say, that moment I had in, uh... Lonesome Dove, that just happened (snapping his fingers), was... probably as good as I've had."

[bigndum1]

Robert Urich had the best part (albeit a small one) in the whole show, this scene is my favorite.

[chrismc410]

I wouldn't have hung Jake, hang Dan and then flog Jake with 50-100 lashes since he really didn't do anything except fall in with the wrong people to ride with and being at the wrong places at the wrong times. The reasons for flogging him vs hanging him, he didn't kill anyone and couldn't stop them but he should have had the sense not to fall in with such people in the first place and some punishment is needed, not death in this case but some punishment. I think a flogging would have fit here.

[TheHAAXX]

Thats intense yo!

[Marla315]

I love this film and thenovel, one of the best westerns ever made! Look behind Gavan O'Herlihy the actor on the horse at 2:37, Gus says “I ‘ll say this for you son you are the kind of man it’s a pleasure to hand.” You can see the two cables the special effects team used to hang him with.

[KuribayashiEarpp]

These people were not stupid, a lot of cattle ranchers back then were not educated, and that's why a lot of cattle barons tried to get an "O" brand, that way the uneducated ranch hands wouldn't put it upside down or sideways and mess it up, it makes sense that they don't know how to spell thief..