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Review Studio Latino / El Muchacho De Durango [1961] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Jaime Fernández
  • Tito Novaro
  • Sonia Infante
  • Arturo Martínez
  • Óscar Pulido
  • Rodolfo de Anda
Release date: 2004-07-13
Run time: 90 min.
Creator: Raúl de Anda
Price: £16.95

Review El Muchacho De Durango [1961] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Studio Latino:


Review delta home entertainment / John Wayne - Helltown / Frontier Horizon [2003]
Actors & Directors
  • George Sherman
  • John Wayne;Ray Corrigan;Raymond Hatton;Jennifer Jones;Eddy Waller;Sammy McKim;LeRoy Mason;Harrison Greene;Wilbur Mack;Reginald Barlow;Burr Caruth;Dave O'Brien;Hal Price;Jack Ingram;Bud Osborne
Release date: 2003-09-15
Run time: 113 min.
RRP: £3.99
Price: £2.93

Review John Wayne - Helltown / Frontier Horizon [2003] / delta home entertainment:


Review Mill Creek Entertainment / Victory at Sea [1954] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Release date: 2005-07-12
Run time: 780 min.
Creator: Leonard Graves
Price: £5.27

Review Victory at Sea [1954] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Mill Creek Entertainment:


Review GT Media / Heart of the Rockies [1951]
Actors & Directors
  • William Witney
  • Ralph Morgan
  • Roy Rogers
  • Penny Edwards
  • Trigger
  • Gordon Jones
Release date: 2004-07-13
Run time: 56 min.
Creator: Eric Taylor
Price: £2.08

Review Heart of the Rockies [1951] / GT Media:


Review Odyssey Video / The Naked And The Dead [1958]
Actors & Directors
  • Cliff Robertson
  • Raymond Massey
  • Aldo Ray
  • Raoul Walsh
  • Lili St. Cyr
  • Barbara Nichols
Run time: 130 min.
Creator: Terry Sanders
RRP: £10.99
Price: £11.88

Review The Naked And The Dead [1958] / Odyssey Video:


Review Universal Pictures UK / High Noon [1952]
Actors & Directors
  • Gary Cooper
  • Thomas Mitchell
  • Katy Jurado
  • Lloyd Bridges
  • Grace Kelly
  • Fred Zinnemann
Release date: 2001-01-01
Run time: 109 min.
Creator: John W. Cunningham
RRP: £15.99
Price: £12.90

Review High Noon [1952] / Universal Pictures UK:

One of the greatest Westerns ever made gets the deluxe treatment on this superior disc. Written by Carl Foreman (who was later blacklisted during the anticommunist hearings of the 1950s) and superbly directed by Fred Zinnemann, this 1952 classic stars Gary Cooper as just-married lawman Will Kane, who is about to retire as a small-town sheriff and begin a new life with his bride (Grace Kelly) when he learns that gunslinger Frank Miller (Ian MacDonald) is due to arrive at high noon to settle an old score. Kane seeks assistance from deputies and townsfolk, but soon realises he will have to stand alone in his showdown with Miller and his henchmen. Innovative for its time, the suspenseful story unfolds in approximate real time (from 10:40 a. m. to high noon in an 84-minute film), and many interpreted Foreman's drama as an allegorical reflection of apathy and passive acceptance of Senator Joseph McCarthy's anticommunist campaign. Political underpinnings aside, this remains a milestone of its genre (often referred to as the first "adult" Western), and Cooper is flawless in his Oscar-winning role. The first-rate DVD gives this landmark film all the respect it deserves, beginning with a digitally remastered transfer from the original film negative. -Jeff Shannon, Amazon. com.

Review 20th Century Fox / John Wayne: American Hero, Hollywood Legend [1961] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Stewart Granger
  • Rock Hudson
  • John Wayne
  • Stuart Whitman
  • Andrew V. McLaglen
  • Henry Hathaway
  • Michael Curtiz
  • John Wayne
  • Ina Balin
Release date: 2003-05-20
Run time: 347 min.
Creator: James Edward Grant
Price: £14.93

Review John Wayne: American Hero, Hollywood Legend [1961] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / 20th Century Fox:


Review Alpha Video / Custer's Last Stand [1936] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Elmer Clifton
  • William Farnum
  • Jack Mulhall
  • Lona Andre
  • Rex Lease
  • Ruth Mix
Release date: 2005-03-29
Run time: 324 min.
Creator: William Lively
Price: £2.62

Review Custer's Last Stand [1936] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Alpha Video:


Review Alpha Video / Heroes of the Alamo [1937] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Tex Cooper
  • Ben Corbett
  • Lane Chandler
  • Steve Clark
  • Harry L. Fraser
  • William Costello
Release date: 2007-02-27
Run time: 74 min.
Creator: Arthur A. Brooks
Price: £3.01

Review Heroes of the Alamo [1937] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Alpha Video:


Review Alpha Video / Partners of The Trail [1944] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Raymond Hatton
  • Johnny Mack Brown
Release date: 2008-04-29
Price: £5.56

Review Partners of The Trail [1944] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Alpha Video:


Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / Patton [1969]
Actors & Directors
  • Morgan Paull
  • Michael Bates
  • Franklin J. Schaffner
  • Karl Malden
  • Stephen Young
  • George C. Scott
Release date: 2006-04-24
Run time: 162 min.
RRP: £17.99
Price: £7.00

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Review Universal Pictures UK / Appaloosa [1966]
Actors & Directors
  • Sidney J. Furie|Marlon Brando|Anjanette Comer|John Saxon
Release date: 1999-07-01
Run time: 94 min.
Price: £9.99

Review Appaloosa [1966] / Universal Pictures UK:


Review MGM / Custer of the West [1968] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Ty Hardin
  • Lawrence Tierney
  • Jeffrey Hunter
  • Robert Shaw
  • Mary Ure
  • Robert Siodmak
Release date: 2004-05-25
Run time: 143 min.
Creator: Julian Zimet
Price: £4.68

Review Custer of the West [1968] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / MGM:

General George Armstrong Custer has been portrayed as everything from a vain but ultimately honourable hero (Errol Flynn in They Died with Their Boots On) to an insane, pompous incompetent (Richard Mulligan in the biting Little Big Man), but few have attempted an ambitious look at the man in all his contradictions. Robert Siodmak's Custer of the West, his final American production, attempts the task with fine results, portraying the career soldier as a pragmatist, a disciplinarian with a bullying streak, a loner and ultimately an Old World romantic in the modern age. Robert Shaw gives the role a regal bearing (though his continental accent keeps drifting in) and a sense of dignity, depicting a man who ironically identifies more with the Indians than with the US Army. Jeffrey Hunter and Ty Hardin co-star as his battling junior officers and Robert Ryan is memorable in a brief appearance as a gold-mining deserter. Shooting in handsome widescreen and vivid Technicolor, Siodmak makes his outdoor settings come alive and nimbly handles the many action scenes, most notably a chase that sends an escaping soldier whooshing down a log water chute like a Disney ride. Siodmak's sweeping visuals deliver both grand images and ironic counterpoint, but ultimately Custer of the West eschews the heroism of Hollywood adventures for a portrait of the corrupt state of the American military and one man's hopeless fight against it. -Sean Axmaker, Amazon. com.

Actors & Directors
  • Anthony Quinn
  • Dana Andrews
  • Henry Fonda
Run time: 72 min.
Price: £14.89

Review The Ox-Bow Incident [Studio Classics] / Twentieth Century Fox:

Two drifters are passing through a Western town, when news comes in that a local farmer has been murdered and his cattle stolen. The townspeople, joined by the drifters, form a posse to catch the perpetrators. They find three men in possession of the cattle, and are determined to see justice done on the spot.

Review 20th Century Fox / The Warlock [1959] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Anthony Quinn
  • Dorothy Malone
  • Richard Widmark
  • Edward Dmytryk
  • Henry Fonda
  • Dolores Michaels
Release date: 2005-05-24
Run time: 122 min.
Creator: Robert Alan Aurthur
Price: £6.00

Review The Warlock [1959] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / 20th Century Fox:


Review Warner Home Video / Rio Bravo [Blu-ray] [1959] [US Import]
Actors & Directors
  • John Wayne
  • Angie Dickinson
  • Ricky Nelson
  • Dean Martin
  • Howard Hawks
  • Walter Brennan
Release date: 2007-06-05
Run time: 141 min.
Creator: Jules Furthman
Price: £14.37

Review Rio Bravo [Blu-ray] [1959] [US Import] / Warner Home Video:

When it comes down to naming the best Western of all time, the list usually narrows to three completely different pictures: Howard Hawks' Rio Bravo, Hawks' Red River and John Ford's The Searchers. About the only thing they all have in common is that they all star John Wayne. But while The Searchers is an epic quest for revenge and Red River, a sweeping cattle-drive drama, Rio Bravo is a much calmer film. Basically, it comes down to Sheriff John T Chance (Wayne), his alcoholic friend Dude (Dean Martin), the hotshot new kid Colorado (Ricky Nelson), and deputy-sidekick Stumpy (Walter Brennan), sittin' around in the town jail, drinkin' black coffee, shootin' the breeze, and occasionally singin' a song. Hawks-who, like his pal Ernest Hemingway, lived by the code of "grace under pressure"-said he made Rio Bravo as a rebuke to High Noon, in which sheriff Gary Cooper begged for townspeople to help him. So, Hawks made Wayne's Sheriff Chance a consummate professional-he may be getting old and fat, but he knows how to do his job, and he doesn't want amateurs getting mixed up in his business; they could get hurt. If the configuration of characters sounds familiar, it should: Hawks remade Rio Bravo two more times-as El Dorado in 1967, with Wayne, Robert Mitchum, and James Caan; and as Rio Lobo in 1970, with Wayne, Jack Elam, and Christopher Mitchum. The film achieved additional notoriety in the 90s when Quentin Tarantino revealed that he uses it as a litmus test for prospective girlfriends. -Jim Emerson, Amazon. com.

Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / South Pacific [1958]
Actors & Directors
  • John Kerr
  • Ray Walston
  • Rossano Brazzi
  • Juanita Hall
  • Joshua Logan
  • Mitzi Gaynor
Release date: 1992-07-13
Run time: 143 min.
Creator: Richard Rodgers
RRP: £12.99
Price: £1.75

Review South Pacific [1958] / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:

The dazzling Rodgers and Hammerstein musical, brought to lush life by the director of the original stage version, Joshua Logan. Set on a remote island during the Second World War, South Pacific tracks two parallel romances: one between a Navy nurse (Mitzi Gaynor) "as corny as Kansas in August" and a wealthy French plantation owner (Rossano Brazzi), the other between a young American officer (John Kerr) and a native girl (France Nuyen). The theme of interracial love was still daring in 1958, and so was director Logan's decision to overlay emotional moments with tinted filters-a technique that misfires as often as it hits. The comic relief tends to fall flat and an overly spunky Mitzi Gaynor is a poor substitute for the stage original's Mary Martin. But the location scenery on the Hawaiian island of Kauai is gorgeous and the songs are among the finest in the American musical catalogue: "Some Enchanted Evening", "Younger than Springtime", "I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Outta My Hair", "This Nearly Was Mine". That's Juanita Hall as the sly native trader Bloody Mary, singing the haunting tune that launched a thousand tiki bars, "Bali H'ai". The movie is based on stories from James Michener's book Tales from the South Pacific. -Robert Horton, Amazon. com.

Review Rough Riders / Rough Riders Triple Feature 1 [1941]
Release date: 2006-05-08
Run time: 175 min.
RRP: £7.99
Price: £1.81

Review Rough Riders Triple Feature 1 [1941] / Rough Riders:


Review Paramount / Hogan's Heroes: The Complete Fourth Season [1968] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • John Banner
  • Bob Crane
  • Irving J. Moore
  • Howard Morris
  • Richard Dawson
  • Bob Sweeney
  • Bruce Bilson
  • Werner Klemperer
  • Robert Clary
  • Edward H. Feldman
Release date: 2006-08-15
Run time: 672 min.
Price: £15.29

Review Hogan's Heroes: The Complete Fourth Season [1968] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Paramount:


Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / Heaven Knows Mr Alison [1957]
Actors & Directors
  • Deborah Kerr
  • Robert Mitchum
  • John Huston
Release date: 2005-04-18
Run time: 102 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £4.01

Review Heaven Knows Mr Alison [1957] / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:


Models & Brands:
El Muchacho De Durango [1961] (REGION 1) (NTSC), John Wayne - Helltown / Frontier Horizon [2003], Victory at Sea [1954] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Heart of the Rockies [1951], The Naked And The Dead [1958], High Noon [1952], John Wayne: American Hero, Hollywood Legend [1961] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Custer's Last Stand [1936] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Heroes of the Alamo [1937] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Partners of The Trail [1944] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Patton [1969], Appaloosa [1966], Custer of the West [1968] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Ox-Bow Incident [Studio Classics], The Warlock [1959] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Rio Bravo [Blu-ray] [1959] [US Import], South Pacific [1958], Rough Riders Triple Feature 1 [1941], Hogan's Heroes: The Complete Fourth Season [1968] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Heaven Knows Mr Alison [1957]

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