screenshots / The Legend of Walks Far Woman / 1980 EMI Television


Made-for-television film based on the 1976 novel Walks Far Woman by author Colin Stuart.

Starring Raquel Welch (One Million Years B.C.), Nick Mancuso (Nightwing) and Nick Ramus (Windwalker).

Also cast is Branscombe Richmond, perhaps best known for his co-starring role as Bobby Sixkiller on the television series Renegade (1992-1997).

Other appearances for actor Rudy Diaz include Coogan's Bluff (1968), How the West Was Won: The Macahans (1976), and with Nick Ramus in Windwalker (1980).

Premired August 24, 1980 in the UK but not televised in the US until May 30, 1982 reportly because some executives thought it was "a disaster" and cut 25 minutes before it's NBC telecast.

The production filmed on locations in the area of Billings, Hardin, and Red Lodge, Montana.