Riders of the Purple Sage

Riders of the Purple Sage is a 1996 American Western television film based on the 1912 novel by Zane Grey, directed by Charles Haid, adapted by Gil Dennis, and starring Ed Harris as Lassiter and Amy Madigan as Jane Withersteen. Plot A homesteader joins forces with a mysterious gunslinger to protect her land from a town that's turned against her. Cast Ed Harris as Jim Lassiter Amy Madigan as Jane Withersteen Henry Thomas as Bern Venters Robin Tunney as Elizabeth "Bess" Erne Norbert Weisser as Deacon Tull G.D. Spradlin as Pastor Dyer Production This TNT Original Production is the fifth screen adaptation of Grey's novel across an eight-decade span.