The remarkable first season of Deadwood represents one of those periodic, wholesale reinventions of the Western that is as different from, say, Lonesome Dove as that miniseries is from Howard Hawks's Rio Bravo or the latter is from Anthony Mann's The Naked Spur. In many ways, HBO's Deadwood embraces the Western's unambiguous morality during the cinema's silent era through the 1930s while also blazing trails through a post-NYPD Blue, post-The West Wing television age exalting dense and customized dialogue. On top of that, Deadwood has managed an original look and texture for a familiar genre: gritty, chaotic, and surging with both dark and hopeful energy. Yet the show's creator, erstwhile NYPD Blue head writer David Milch,... Learn More
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Judging by the quality of the first two boxed sets for "Have Gun Will Travel", I have little doubt that this release will be every bit as satisfying in terms of packaging, content and film transfer quality. It would be nice to see some added extras with this set, though.
Among the best episodes in the set are "First, Catch a Tiger", "Episode in Laredo" (first two of the season), "The Unforgiven" and "Return to Fort Benjamin". The season wallows a bit in the middle but picks up steam once more with some finely crafted stories in the final 7-8 installments. Many fans feel that the show more or less peaked with this season and began to wane in quality thereafter. That's to be expected when you consider that 117 episodes were made over the first three years(!) I'm very... More Info About This DVD DVD Release Date: 03 January 2006
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I give the makers of this film credit for attempting a literate and ambitious western, however, the pacing of this film is so meandering that it caused me to drift off on occasion. The basic premise of a horse baron hiring a sadistic regulator to rid himself of pesky horse thieves is a good one, however,it fails in execution. I have nothing against films that deliberately pace themselves but Arthur Penn's direction here is downright snooze inducing. Even Marlon Brando's method account as the regulator, though amusing at times, cannot save the picture. Jack Nicholson gives a solid turn here as the horse thief but there's nothing special about his performance. The promised sparks between Brando and Nicholson don't even materialize with the possible exception of a bathroom... More Info About This DVD Actor(s): Marlon Brando - Jack Nicholson Director(s): Arthur Penn DVD Release Date: Released the 08 November 2005 Usually ships in 24 hours
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Sabata - one of the best Spaghetti Westerns is marred by a terrible sound-sink problem throughout most of the middle of the film. And I do not mean bad dubbing! The sound becomes and stays so out of sink that voices and all sound effets (footsteps, slaps, gun shots etc.) are noticably off by about a whole second. This completely mars one of the greatest spaghetti westerns and the very best of the three Sabata films! This is a problem with the MGM/Sony DVD pressing not with the original film. I would have given this otherwise beautiful package 5 stars if not for the sound problem.
Adios Sabata and The Return of Sabata do not have this problem. Although they are entertaining they can't hold a candle to the original Sabata.
The sound problem on Sabata is... More Info About This DVD Actor(s): Lee Van Cleef DVD Release Date: Released the 18 October 2005 Usually ships in 24 hours
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When they say they don't make 'em like they used to, they're talking about 20th Century Fox's exhilarating The Mark of Zorro, starring Tyrone Power as the caped one, Linda Darnell as his love interest, and Basil Rathbone at his scurrilous best as Zorro's nemesis. More textured than the 1920 original with Douglas Fairbanks, this 1940 version has Don Diego/Zorro (Powers) returning from Madrid to defend his father and rally the caballeros (noblemen) against Los Angeles's corrupt new governor (J. Edward Bromberg), intent on taxing the peons to death.
If this all sounds like an Old California redo of the classic Adventures of Robin Hood, that's because it is. Powers has a field day as Don Diego, the "fancy clown" betrothed to the governor's niece, Lolita (Darnell). Don... More Info About This DVD Actor(s): Tyrone Power Director(s): Rouben Mamoulian DVD Release Date: Released the 18 October 2005 Usually ships in 24 hours
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Although scarcely seen in its original 3-D, and entirely out of sight for a decade and a half after its producer-star died, Hondo has maintained a high rep among John Wayne fans--and it wasn't even directed by Howard Hawks or John Ford. (Actually, Ford did shoot some second-unit stuff while visiting Wayne on location.) Half-breed Hondo, companioned only by an antisocial dog, tends to be more sympathetic toward the Apaches than toward the white society he occasionally scouts for. He falls into uneasy friendship with a New Mexico farmwoman (Geraldine Page) whose husband deserts her for long stretches, and whose son (Lee Aaker) is blood brother to the local Apache chieftain. A good, spare frontier tale--Louis L'Amour via James Edward (Angel and the Badman) Grant--in which... More Info About This DVD Actor(s): John Wayne - Geraldine Page Director(s): John Farrow DVD Release Date: Released the 11 October 2005 Usually ships in 24 hours
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John Wayne's most popular vehicle of the 1960s is a broad, boisterous comedy-Western and a family movie in every sense--in subject matter, casting, personnel, and the audience it aims to bear-hug. Wayne and his Quiet Man partner Maureen O'Hara reprise their large-boned lovers' quarrel in a Wild West variation on The Taming of the Shrew, while a cast of familiar supporting players do their best to avoid becoming collateral damage.
The picture is fascinating as an attempt to adjust and update the Duke as all-American icon. Rancher George Washington McLintock owns most of the town that bears his name, but James Edward Grant's screenplay is at didactic pains to establish the benevolence and socio-political enlightenment of his reign. G.W.'s former Indian foes have become his... More Info About This DVD Actor(s): John Wayne - Maureen O'Hara - Patrick Wayne Director(s): Andrew V. McLaglen DVD Release Date: Released the 11 October 2005 Usually ships in 24 hours
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