''Shaughnessy: The Iron Marshal'' (aka Louis L'Amour's Shaughnessy) is a 1996 American

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. It is based on the 1979

Louis L'Amour Louis Dearborn L'Amour (; né LaMoore; March 22, 1908 – June 10, 1988) was an American novelist and short story writer. His books consisted primarily of Western novels, though he called his work "frontier stories". His most widely known West ...

novel, ''Shaughnessy''.Ed Andreychuk, ''Louis L'Amour on Film and Television'', 2010, page 13.Leonard Mustazza, ''The Literary Filmography: A-L'', 2006, p. 269. The movie starred Matthew Settle as title character Tommy Shaughnessy, also starring

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,Carlo Gaberscek, Kenny Stier, ''In Search of Western Movie Sites'', 2014, page 209. Linda Kozlowski, and

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, and was directed by Michael Rhodes. The screenplay was written by

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, who "served the same double duty" on Shaughnessy that he previously did for Disney's ''Davy Crockett'' miniseries in the 1980s. 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." ''Shaughnessy: The Iron Marshal'' was developed as a prospective TV series for CBS, but went no further than the TV movie. The movie was filmed in part at the

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, and on the

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. It was released on DVD in 2006.

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