The Daltons (Lucky Luke) - The Daltons in Films

The Daltons in Films

Several animated Lucky Luke films feature the Daltons, including:

• Daisy Town (1971)
• La Ballade des Dalton (1978)
• Les Dalton en cavale (1983)

The follow-up animated TV series of the early 1990s, which closely adapted the comics, also featured the Daltons. It is noteworthy that the comic "Hors-la-loi" was adapted to include the cousins, rather than the original Daltons, to avoid killing the four at the end. Nevertheless, in "Les cousins Dalton", the original brothers are still mentioned.

The Daltons appeared also in the first live action movie Lucky Luke and the follow-up TV series, in which they were portrayed by Ron Carey, Dominic Barto, Bo Greigh and Fritz Sperberg. Note that "Averell" was constantly misspelled as "Averill".

The Daltons starred in a 2004 movie titled simply Les Dalton, in which Joe (Éric Judor), William (Romain Berger), Jack (Saïd Serrari) (the order of the two was inverted; William was the larger) and Averell (Ramzy Bédia) find out about a magic sombrero which makes people invincible, and try to steal it in order to rob a bank. Lucky Luke was only an episodic character in the movie. Ma Dalton was in the movie as well, and she had three friends, all mothers of famous Western criminals (Jesse James, Butch Cassidy, Billy the Kid). The movie got poor reviews. Many fans complained that it lacked the humour and the spirit of the original books.

The TV animation series The New Adventures of Lucky Luke (started in 2001) includes the four Dalton brothers in most episodes.

The film Go West includes the Daltons, even though the comic The caravan that served as inspiration to the movie does not.

Xilam Productions has produced an animated television series "Les Dalton", focusing on the characters of the Daltons. The series contains 78 episodes of 8 minutes and started to air in fall 2010 in France (source: "The Daltons let loose by Xilam"). Note that the order of the two middle brothers was inverted to Jack-William.