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List Price: $19.94Price: $14.99You Save: $4.95 (25%)Silverado (2 Disc Superbit Gift Set)
Actors: Kevin Kline, Scott Glenn, Kevin Costner, Danny Glover, Marvin J. McIntyre
ASIN : B0007MAO0M
Sales Rank : 4648
Director : Lawrence Kasdan
Brand : Sony
Studio : Sony Pictures
Region Code : 99
Format : AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 9781404961852
ISBN : 1404961852
UPC : 043396067097
Release Date : December 05, 2005
Publisher : Sony Pictures
Manufacturer : Sony Pictures
Availability : Usually ships in 24 hours
Label : Sony Pictures
Running Time : 132
Product DescriptionFour unwitting heroes cross paths on their journey to the sleepy town of silverado. Little do they know the town has been taken over by a corrupt sheriff and a murderous posse. Its up to them to save the day. Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 04/05/2005 Starring: Danny Glover Kevin Costner Run time: 133 minutes Rating: Pg13 Amazon.com essential videoDirector Lawrence Kasdan (The Big Chill) clearly set out to make an old-fashioned Western, but he couldn't help bringing a hip, self-conscious attitude to the proceedings. Silverado thus finds its own funky tone--sometimes rousing, sometimes winking. Four cowpokes converge on a little Western burg called Silverado; they're played by Kevin Kline (a distinctly modern kind of Western hero), Scott Glenn, Danny Glover, and the rowdy young Kevin Costner. Kasdan peppers the somewhat generic action with smart dialogue and a parade of quirky supporting players, including John Cleese as a sheriff who seems to have stepped straight from a Monty Python sketch into an Old West saloon. Bruce Broughton supplies the music, a real throwback to the glory days of thundering Western themes. One thing's for sure: Silverado's a lot more fun than the later Kasdan-Costner Western, Wyatt Earp. --Robert Horton
Reviews for the Silverado (2 Disc Superbit Gift Set)
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List Price: $28.99Price: $18.95You Save: $10.04 (35%)Wyatt Earp [Blu-ray]
Actor: Kevin Costner
ASIN : B000U1ZV3U
Sales Rank : 2991
Brand : Warner Brothers
Studio : Warner Home Video
Region Code : 1
Format : AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, Subtitled, Widescreen
Binding : Blu-ray
EAN : 0085391142683
UPC : 085391142683
Release Date : December 25, 2007
Publisher : Warner Home Video
Manufacturer : Warner Home Video
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Label : Warner Home Video
Running Time : 190
Product DescriptionStudio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 09/25/2007 Run time: 219 minutes Rating: Pg13 Amazon.comThis massive, in-depth study of the dark Western icon comes off with mixed results. Trying to capture the whole life, (warts and all) of the lawman-criminal-brother-fortune hunter, director Lawrence Kasdan gains points for sheer scale, giving us a rich epic painted in dark colors with gritty settings. But the visual poetry and extensive foreshadowing ruin the dramatic drive. Some scenes have as much impact as stalker movies; you're just waiting for someone to get knocked off. As Earp, Kevin Costner is not afraid to look rumpled and play colorlessly (as in The Bodyguard), but it saps the energy of this 3-hour-plus film. The only relief is Dennis Quaid as a droll Doc Holiday, a much more engaging character. New faces Linden Ashby and Joanna Going (as an Earp brother and a lover, respectively) are solid finds, though the remainder of the female cast is barely given anything to do. Best is the first half, with Costner, as hip as he was in his Silverado days, going through a series of ups and downs until he accidentally finds his profession. Great set design (Ida Random) utilizes dozens of similar settings that always look distinctive. Recommended to fans of the star and the genre, but the story never justifies its length. --Doug Thomas
Reviews for the Wyatt Earp [Blu-ray]
List Price: $19.98Price: $10.99You Save: $8.99 (45%)Fox Western Classics (Rawhide / The Gunfighter / Garden of Evil)
Actors: Gregory Peck, Tyrone Power, Gary Cooper
ASIN : B0014BQR1A
Sales Rank : 4572
Director : Henry Hathaway, Henry King
Brand : Fox
Studio : 20th Century Fox
Region Code : 1
Format : Box set, Black & White, Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Widescreen, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0024543512585
UPC : 024543512585
Release Date : December 13, 2008
Publisher : 20th Century Fox
Manufacturer : 20th Century Fox
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Label : 20th Century Fox
Running Time : 272
DescriptionDisc 1: Garden of Evil (1954) Feature Film Disc 2: The Gunfighter (1951) Feature Film Disc 3: Rawhide (1951) Feature Film Amazon.comOne of these three new-to-DVD Westerns is a universally esteemed classic, well worth the price of the set. But in happy fact, the whole package delivers the goods: sturdy genre entertainment from the Western's peak decade, the 1950s; solid Fox studio craftsmanship in every department; and breathtakingly crisp restorations that make you feel you've been time-warped back to a loge seat in your Bijou of choice on opening day. Henry King's The Gunfighter (1950) is the crown jewel--the film that deserves the credit (often awarded to High Noon) for ushering in the "adult Western," the '50s subgenre that emphasized psychological intensity over action and spectacle. Gregory Peck (topping his acclaimed performance in King's WWII drama Twelve O'Clock High) is excellent as Jimmy Ringo, a notorious shootist grown middle-aged and mortally weary of having to defend his legend. His trail takes him to a frontier town where an old comrade (the great Millard Mitchell) now serves as marshal, and where Ringo's estranged wife and the son he has never seen also reside, under an assumed name. Over one night and one day, Ringo dares to dream of a normal life. But there are avengers not far behind, and other threats yet to be counted. Although hailed by critics, The Gunfighter lost money for Fox; studio head Darryl F. Zanuck blamed the soup-strainer mustache--a stroke of period realism--director King ordered Peck to grow for the role. Well, a little red ink is a small price to pay for a masterpiece. Incidentally, the impeccable black-and-white cinematography is by three-time Oscar-winner Arthur Miller, capping a career that reached back to The Perils of Pauline. The 1951 Rawhide (no relation to the later TV series) is a trim, satisfying Henry Hathaway picture that blends the leathery trappings of the Western with the claustrophobic atmosphere and intensity of a noir suspense film. At a remote swing station for the transcontinental stagecoach, several no-goods aim to help themselves to a gold shipment. But the next coach isn't carrying gold, so the intruders hold the stationmasters (Tyrone Power and Edgar Buchanan) and some stranded passengers captive while they wait. Power and Susan Hayward handle the heroics without larger-than-life posturing; Dean Jagger, Hugh Marlowe, and George Tobias relish the rare opportunity to play villainous or ambiguous types; and Jack Elam is, well, Jack Elam, reliably oozing viciousness from every pore. Screenwriter Dudley Nichols knew the territory, having scripted John Ford's Stagecoach thirteen years earlier. Hathaway also directed Garden of Evil (1954), Fox's first Western in the new CinemaScope process. (Very wiiiiide CinemaScope--the DVD preserves the 2.55:1 format, which was later modified to 2.35:1.) The story involves several fortune-seeking Americanos accidentally thrown together in Mexico and enlisted to help rescue a fellow countryman injured at his remote gold mine. Much of the film unreels as a journey Western exploring tensions among the strangers, especially those inspired by dreaming of gold and the man's redheaded wife (Susan Hayward). The dialogue reaches for profundity and comes up short, but Richard Widmark as a self-designated "poet" and Gary Cooper as a retired lawman give satisfaction as they one-up each other. The movie's distinction lies in Hathaway's no-sweat adaptation to the widescreen format, the awe-inspiring Mexican settings--a deserted village, a valley of black sand, a mountain town buried under volcanic ash--and the only music score ever composed for a feature Western by Bernard Herrmann. Herrmann is just about the only thing the four commentators on Garden of Evil talk about (there's also a separate "making of" featurette). Nobody does commentary on The Gunfighter or Rawhide, but the disc for the former includes a featurette on master cameraman Arthur Miller, while a Rawhide addendum highlights the oft-used movie location of Lone Pine, Calif., and another pays tribute to gutsy leading lady Susan Hayward. Talking heads include some half-dozen film historians (e.g., David Biographical Dictionary of Film Thomson) plus Henry Hathaway's son and Gary Cooper's daughter. --Richard T. Jameson
Reviews for the Fox Western Classics (Rawhide / The Gunfighter / Garden of Evil)
New Price: $3.49Cowboys and Angels
Actors: Adam Trese, Mia Kirshner, Radha Mitchell, Hamilton von Watts, Carmen Llywelyn
ASIN : B0000DBJDN
Sales Rank : 3224
Director : Gregory C. Haynes
Brand : Universal
Studio : Universal Studios
Region Code : 1
Format : Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Subtitled, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 9780783298436
ISBN : 0783298439
UPC : 025192398124
Release Date : December 30, 2003
Publisher : Universal Studios
Manufacturer : Universal Studios
Label : Universal Studios
Running Time : 105
Product DescriptionLeft at the altar heartbroken danny fears that he will never love again until the mysterious and angelic jojo appears in his life. With jojo as his guide danny begins a journey of self-exploration uncovering the triumphs and tragedies of lust and love. Studio: Uni Dist Corp. (mca) Release Date: 12/26/2005 Starring: Adam Trese Mia Kirshner Run time: 97 minutes Rating: Pg Director: Gregory C. Haynes
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List Price: $14.98Price: $9.99You Save: $4.99 (33%)Red River
Actors: John Wayne, Montgomery Clift, Joanne Dru, Walter Brennan, Coleen Gray
ASIN : 6304696612
Sales Rank : 2265
Director : Arthur Rosson, Howard Hawks
Brand : WAYNE,JOHN
Studio : MGM (Video & DVD)
Region Code : 1
Format : AC-3, Black & White, Closed-captioned, DVD-Video, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 9786304696613
ISBN : 6304696612
UPC : 027616604224
Release Date : December 19, 1997
Publisher : MGM (Video & DVD)
Manufacturer : MGM (Video & DVD)
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Label : MGM (Video & DVD)
Running Time : 133
DescriptionOne of the finest westerns ever made, this "monumental, sweeping and powerful" masterpiece (Variety) features impassioned performances, stunning cinematography and adventure on a grand scale. Starring John Wayne, Montgomery Clift (in his screen debut), Walter Brennan, Harry Carey, Sr. and Noah Beery, Jr., Red River is a hard-hitting, action-packed adventure that captures the grandeur, majestyand dangerof the wild American West.Wayne gives "one of the best performances of his career" (Cinebooks) as Tom Dunson, a self-made cattle baron who'll do anything to protect his way of life. So when plummeting livestock values demand that he drive his herd through thetreacherous Chisholm Trail, Tom proves that he'll risk anything to reach his destination even his own sanity. Amazon.com essential videoAny short list of the all-time greatest Westerns is bound to include this 1948 Howard Hawks classic about an epic cattle drive. Red River features one of John Wayne's greatest performances. Like his Ethan Edwards in John Ford's 1956 masterpiece The Searchers, the Duke plays an isolated and unsympathetic man who is possessed by bitterness. Wayne is Texas rancher Tom Dunson, who adopts a young boy orphaned in an Indian massacre. That boy, Matthew Garth (played as an adult by Montgomery Clift in his screen debut), becomes Dunson's assistant and heir apparent--until Dunson's temper gets out of control during a long cattle drive and Matt intervenes to stop him. From that moment on, Dunson swears he will kill Matt. Red River has everything a great Western ought to have: a sweeping sense of history, spectacular landscapes, stampedes, gunfights, Indian attacks, and, of course, Walter Brennan as Dunson's crusty old cook and comic sidekick, Nadine Groot. As a special bonus, the film also features the legendary Harry Carey (upon whom Wayne would base some of his gestures in The Searchers) and his son Harry Carey Jr., who became a fixture in Ford and Hawks Westerns. Red River is essential for anyone who loves Westerns, or movies in general. This one's a real beaut. --Jim Emerson
Reviews for the Red River
List Price: $12.98Price: $8.99You Save: $3.99 (31%)The Green Berets
Actors: Luke Askew, Bruce Cabot, Jason Evers, Edward Faulkner, Jim Hutton
ASIN : B000O599YO
Sales Rank : 3113
Brand : Warner Brothers
Studio : Warner Home Video
Region Code : 1
Format : Closed-captioned, Color, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0085391158608
UPC : 085391158608
Release Date : December 22, 2007
Publisher : Warner Home Video
Manufacturer : Warner Home Video
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Label : Warner Home Video
Running Time : 142
DescriptionJohn Wayne leads his special forces troops against the enemy in this first Hollywood treatment of the Vietnam War. It's rugged battle action all the way. David Janssen and Jim Hutton co-star. Amazon.comAnyone who fought in Vietnam can tell you that the war bore little resemblance to this propagandistic action film starring and codirected by John Wayne. But the film itself is not nearly as bad as its reputation would suggest; critics roasted its gung-ho politics while ignoring its merits as an exciting (if rather conventional and idealistic) war movie. Some notorious mistakes were made--in the final shot, the sun sets in the east!--and it's an awkward attempt to graft WWII heroics onto the Vietnam experience. But as the Duke's attempt to acknowledge the men who were fighting and dying overseas, it's a rousing film in which Wayne commands a regiment on a mission to kidnap a Viet Cong general. David Janssen plays a journalist who learns to understand Wayne's commitment to battling Communism, and Jim Hutton (Timothy's dad) plays an ill-fated soldier who adopts a Vietnamese orphan. In addition to its widescreen image, the digital video disc includes a promotional featurette and seven different theatrical trailers. --Jeff Shannon
Reviews for the The Green Berets
List Price: $16.99Price: $12.99You Save: $4 (24%)The Backyardigans - Surf's Up!
Actors: LaShawn Jefferies, Jonah Bobo, Naelee Rae, Reginald Davis Jr., Zach Tyler
ASIN : B000EQ5TTM
Sales Rank : 3761
Director : Donald Kim
Brand : Backyardigans
Studio : Paramount
Region Code : 1
Format : Animated, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0097368898448
UPC : 097368898448
Release Date : December 30, 2006
Publisher : Paramount
Manufacturer : Paramount
Availability : Usually ships in 10 to 13 days
Label : Paramount
Running Time : 99
Product DescriptionThe Backyardigans are a group of five young friends who get together daily to play in the backyard they share. Each day, their imaginations transform that backyard into a different fantastic, photo-realistic landscape, and they go off on a high-stakes quest full of song, dance, and adventure Title Overview: "Surf’s Up!" will be the fifth The Backyardigans home video title. The main episode centers around the Backyardigans as surfers searching for the perfect wave to Afro-pop tunes. The main program of the DVD will include 4 episodes, each approximately 24 minutes in length.
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New Price: $36.83Here Come the Brides - The Complete First Season
Actors: Joan Blondell, Robert Brown, Bridget Hanley, David Soul, Bobby Sherman
ASIN : B000ERVJPY
Sales Rank : 5724
Brand : Sony
Studio : Sony Pictures
Region Code : 99
Format : Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0043396130265
UPC : 043396130265
Release Date : December 16, 2006
Publisher : Sony Pictures
Manufacturer : Sony Pictures
Label : Sony Pictures
Running Time : 1345
Description Robert Brown, pop music superstar Bobby Sherman and David Soul (TV's Starsky and Hutch) star in the classic television series HERE COME THE BRIDES, a delightful comedy that combines romance and adventure in the rugged landscape of the mid-nineteenth century Pacific Northwest. The Bolt brothers own a mountain and logging camp in Seattle, and as the area's only employer, the brothers borrow money and head east to bring back a shipload of lovely ladies to boost morale. But if any of the women leave Seattle within a year, the Bolts lose their mountain to the man that lent them the money. Also starring legendary actress Joan Blondell (Grease, The Public Enemy), the complete first season of HERE COME THE BRIDES is presented for the first time ever - and is only available - on DVD. Amazon.comIf you look at the premise of Here Come the Brides on paper, the whole series sounds rather bizarre: three brothers head East to find 100 young women who agree to move to untamed Seattle to marry the single men in town. The potential brides have to remain in Seattle for at least a year. If they don't, the siblings could lose their family business. But this show isn't set in a society where there's a Starbucks on every corner. Rather, it takes place in the late 19th century. Add some sassy dialogue and throw in Bobby Sherman and David Soul as youngest brother Jeremy and middle brother Joshua, respectively, and voila! The show evokes charming innocence, if not antiquated notions of how the sexes should behave. The episode in which a visiting Mormon bogarts four of the women for his own brides isn't so much shocking as it is curious. Why aren't the local men more worked up that this could cause some of their own to be without brides? The series, which lasted just two seasons, premiered on television in 1968 and helped springboard Sherman into a teen idol. The acting on the show by Sherman and his cast mates at times is self-conscious and stilted, but they share good chemistry and have fun with the scripts. One of the better-thought-out episodes aired early in the season. Jeremy's stuttering is miraculously cured by a charismatic magician (played by the late Jack Albertson, who ate up the scenery with relish), who turns out to be somewhat of a charlatan. The ending drives the point home that Jeremy needed as much faith in himself as he had in the magician. Like the series itself, yes, the sentiment is predictable. But it still makes for good TV. --Jae-Ha Kim
Reviews for the Here Come the Brides - The Complete First Season
List Price: $12.98Price: $10.49You Save: $2.49 (19%)Big Jake
Actors: John Agar, Richard Boone, Jim Burk, Bruce Cabot, Virginia Capers
ASIN : B00008CMR4
Sales Rank : 8147
Director : Sherman, George
Brand : Paramount
Studio : Paramount
Region Code : 1
Format : Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 9780792179405
ISBN : 0792179404
UPC : 097363711544
Release Date : December 29, 2003
Publisher : Paramount
Manufacturer : Paramount
Availability : Usually ships in 1 to 2 days
Label : Paramount
Running Time : 110
Product DescriptionA texas cattle man swings into action when outlaws kidnap his grandson and wound his son. Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: 08/23/2005 Starring: John Wayne Maureen Ohara Run time: 109 minutes Rating: Pg13 Amazon.comBig Jake is not one of the Duke's classics, but a diverting attempt nonetheless. Everyone seems to think that Jacob McCandles is six-feet under ("I thought you was dead" is a running line throughout), so some bad men kidnap his grandson. They want a piece of the family fortune and will kill to get it. Patrick Wayne, the Duke's own son, plays one of Big Jake's kids, and together they start out after the boy's abductors. Richard Boone makes a worthy adversary to Jake's larger than life figure, and the final confrontation between the two contains some great gritted-teeth dialogue. Maureen O'Hara is barely in the feature, sharing the same fate as Bobby Vinton as the boy's father. He seems to be onscreen just to get shot. --Keith Simanton
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Price: $9.98The Shootist
Actors: John Wayne, Lauren Bacall, Ron Howard, James Stewart, Richard Boone
ASIN : B00005JSGL
Sales Rank : 6318
Director : Don Siegel
Brand : Paramount
Studio : Paramount
Region Code : 1
Format : Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 9780792172642
ISBN : 0792172647
UPC : 097360890440
Release Date : December 24, 2001
Publisher : Paramount
Manufacturer : Paramount
Availability : Usually ships in 24 hours
Label : Paramount
Running Time : 98
Product DescriptionTerminally ill john bernard brooks the last of the legendary gunfighters quietly returns to carson city to be treated by his old friend dr hostetler. The troubled man seeks peace in a boarding house run by a widow & her son but its not his fate to die in peace & he become embroiled in one last valiant battle Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: 04/11/2006 Starring: John Wayne Lauren Bacall Run time: 98 minutes Rating: Pg Director: Don Siegel Amazon.com essential videoThe last film of John Wayne could not have been more fitting, full of details that can't help but make one reflect upon his legacy in the movies and his life as a star. Wayne plays a career gunfighter in the autumn of his life, trying to hang up his pistols after he discovers he's dying of cancer. Boarding in the house of an attractive widow (Lauren Bacall) and her son (Ron Howard), Wayne's character opts for peace in his final days but is dogged by his reputation when a handful of killers seeks him out for a final fight. Howard is fine as a fatherless boy who needs the strong mentor the hero represents, and James Stewart--who costarred with Wayne in the great Man Who Shot Liberty Valance--plays the doctor who gives the big man the bad news. Don Siegel (Invasion of the Body Snatchers) thoughtfully directs a very special and sensitive production. --Tom Keogh
Reviews for the The Shootist
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