The Legend of the Golden Gun is a 1979 Made-for-TV Western film, starring Jeff Osterhage

Jeff Osterhage

Jeff Osterhage is an American film and television actor from Columbus, Indiana.Osterhage began his acting career in a television adaptation of True Grit in 1978 and starred in the 1979 TV movie The Legend of the Golden Gun...

, Hal Holbrook

Hal Holbrook

Harold Rowe "Hal" Holbrook, Jr. is an American actor. His television roles include Abraham Lincoln in the 1976 TV series Lincoln, Hays Stowe on The Bold Ones: The Senator and Capt. Lloyd Bucher on Pueblo. He is also known for his role in the 2007 film Into the Wild, for which he was nominated for...

, Carl Franklin

Carl Franklin

Carl Franklin is an American actor, screenwriter and film and television director. Franklin is a graduate of University of California, Berkeley and continued his education at the AFI Conservatory, where he graduated with an M.F.A. degree in directing in 1986...

, and Robert Davi

Robert Davi

Robert John Davi is an American actor and singer. He has played such roles as Vietnam veteran and Special Agent Johnson in Die Hard, the villainous Jake Fratelli in The Goonies, and Al Torres in Showgirls...

Plot Summary

A young farmer and a bible-quoting runaway slave team up to track down the legendary Confederate guerrilla William Quantrill. Along the way they run into a legendary gunfighter, J.R. Swackhammer, who teaches the young farmer how to shoot and gives him a special gun that shoots seven rounds, the seventh which he must use to fight evil.

Cast

• Jeff Osterhage
  Jeff Osterhage
  Jeff Osterhage is an American film and television actor from Columbus, Indiana.Osterhage began his acting career in a television adaptation of True Grit in 1978 and starred in the 1979 TV movie The Legend of the Golden Gun...
  
   as John Golden
• Carl Franklin
  Carl Franklin
  Carl Franklin is an American actor, screenwriter and film and television director. Franklin is a graduate of University of California, Berkeley and continued his education at the AFI Conservatory, where he graduated with an M.F.A. degree in directing in 1986...
  
   as Joshua Brown
• Robert Davi
  Robert Davi
  Robert John Davi is an American actor and singer. He has played such roles as Vietnam veteran and Special Agent Johnson in Die Hard, the villainous Jake Fratelli in The Goonies, and Al Torres in Showgirls...
  
   as William Quantrill
• Keir Dullea
  Keir Dullea
  Keir Dullea is an American actor best known for the character of astronaut David Bowman, whom he portrayed in the 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey and in 1984's 2010: The Year We Make Contact...
  
   as General Custer
• Michele Carey
  Michele Carey
  Michele Carey is an American actress. She was also a child piano prodigy and a model. Touted as a discovery of Howard Hawks, she made her film debut in Hawks' El Dorado , starring John Wayne and Robert Mitchum...
  
   as Maggie
• John McLiam as Jake Powell
• Elissa Leeds as Sara Powell
• R. G. Armstrong
  R. G. Armstrong
  Robert Golden "R.G." Armstrong is an American actor and playwright. A veteran character actor who appeared in dozens of Westerns over the course of his 40-year career, he may be best remembered for his work with director Sam Peckinpah....
  
   as Judge Harrison Harding
• Hal Holbrook
  Hal Holbrook
  Harold Rowe "Hal" Holbrook, Jr. is an American actor. His television roles include Abraham Lincoln in the 1976 TV series Lincoln, Hays Stowe on The Bold Ones: The Senator and Capt. Lloyd Bucher on Pueblo. He is also known for his role in the 2007 film Into the Wild, for which he was nominated for...
  
   as J.R. Swackhammer
• William Bryant
  William Bryant (actor)
  -Career:Born in Los Angeles, California, U.S.., Bryant was a character actor who appeared in films such as King Dinosaur , Escape from San Quentin , Experiment in Terror , with Glenn Ford, How to Murder Your Wife and The Great Race with Jack Lemmon, What Did You Do in the War, Daddy? , McQ ,...
  
   as William Ford
• Rex Holman as Sturges
• J. Brian Pizer as Captain Marks
• R. L. Tolbert as Buffalo Bill
• Budge Taylor as Dr. Wheller
• Walt Davis as Soldier #3
• Michael Yama as The photographer
• David Holbrook as The young outlaw