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Blazing Saddles

Actors: Richard Collier, Carol DeLuise, Dom DeLuise, Liam Dunn, George Furth
ASIN : 0790731487
Sales Rank : 10587
Studio : Warner Home Video
Region Code : 1
Format : Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Widescreen, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 9780790731483
ISBN : 0790731487
UPC : 012569100121
Release Date : December 25, 1997
Publisher : Warner Home Video
Manufacturer : Warner Home Video
Label : Warner Home Video
Running Time : 93

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Mel Brooks scored his first commercial hit with this raucous Western spoof starring the late Cleavon Little as the newly hired (and conspicuously black) sheriff of Rock Ridge. Sheriff Bart teams up with deputy Jim (Gene Wilder) to foil the railroad-building scheme of the nefarious Hedley Lamarr (Harvey Korman). The simple plot is just an excuse for a steady stream of gags, many of them unabashedly tasteless, that Brooks and his wacky cast pull off with side-splitting success. The humor is so juvenile and crude that you just have to surrender to it; highlights abound, from the lunkheaded Alex Karras as the ox-riding Mongo to Madeline Kahn's uproarious send-up of Marlene Dietrich as saloon songstress Lili Von Shtupp. Adding to the comedic excess is the infamous campfire scene involving a bunch of hungry cowboys, heaping servings of baked beans and, well, you get the idea. --Jeff Shannon

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Zachariah

Actors: John Rubinstein, Patricia Quinn (II), Don Johnson, Country Joe and the Fish, Elvin Jones
ASIN : B00026L7QS
Sales Rank : 20100
Director : George Englund
Brand : TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT
Studio : MGM (Video & DVD)
Region Code : 1
Format : Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 9780792861508
ISBN : 0792861507
UPC : 027616909060
Release Date : December 24, 2004
Publisher : MGM (Video & DVD)
Manufacturer : MGM (Video & DVD)
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Label : MGM (Video & DVD)
Running Time : 92

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Firepower meets flower power in this "outrageous western" (Motion Picture Herald) about two thrill-seeking cowboys who rock the range! Starring John Rubinstein, Don Johnson and Dick Van Patten, and featuring legendary musicians Country Joe and the Fish and White Lightnin', this psychedelic trip through the Wild West is an utterly "unique film experience" (Variety)! Two cowboys (Rubinstein and Johnson) set out for adventure and join up with a band of rock'n'roll outlaws. But as the two friends are seduced by their own quick-draw ambitions, a deadly rivalry grows betweenthem, and they must struggle to find a path to peacebefore they lose more than their reputations and kill more than their friendship!

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Advertised in 1970 as "the first electric Western," Zachariah is an endearingly pretentious effort that prefigures such genre oddities as Jodorowsky's El Topo and Alex Cox's Straight to Hell. The story is the archetypal one about two friends who become gunslingers and must inevitably face off against each other in the finale. But it's treated here as if it meant something deeper, which means that after enjoying 75 minutes of violence we can all agree that peace and love and harmony is on the whole better for children and other living things. Curly haired farm boy Zachariah (John Rubinstein) and eternally grinning apprentice blacksmith Matthew (Don Johnson) are the fast friends who run away from home to join up with a gang of outlaws known as the Crackers (played by hippie folk-rock collective Country Joe and the Fish). These apparent 19th-century Westerners tote electric guitars and are given to staging free festival freak-outs at one end of town to distract from the bank robbery at the other. The boys soon hook up with Job Cain (Elvin Jones), an all-in-black master gunfighter who is also an ace drummer (his solo is impressive), but then drift apart as Zachariah has a liaison with Old West madam Belle Starr (Patricia Quinn) in a town that consists of fairground-style brightly painted wooden cut- out buildings (a gag reused in Blazing Saddles), then gets rid of his outrageous all-white cowboy outfit to settle down on a homestead and grow his own dope and vegetables. Matthew, of course, goes for the black-leather look after outdrawing Cain, and comes a-gunning for the only man who might be faster than he, but the hippie-era message is that once these kids have killed everyone else, they can still make peace with each other and the desert or something, man.

Aside from a Beatle-haired teenage Johnson making a fool of himself by overly emoting to contrast with Rubinstein's nonperformance, the film offers a lot of beautiful "acid Western" scenery and excellent prog rock and bluegrass music from the James Gang, White Lightnin', and the New York Rock Ensemble. Comedy troupe the Firesign Theatre (huge on album in 1970) provided the script, which explains satirical touches like the horse-and-buggy salesman (Dick Van Patten) spieling like a used car dealer and the madam's claim to have had affairs with gunslingers from Billy the Kid to Marshall McLuhan. --Kim Newman

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Oklahoma!

Actors: Gordon MacRae, Gloria Grahame, Gene Nelson, Charlotte Greenwood, Shirley Jones
ASIN : 6305320802
Sales Rank : 21729
Director : Fred Zinnemann
Studio : 20th Century Fox
Region Code : 1
Format : Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, THX, Widescreen, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 9786305320807
ISBN : 6305320802
UPC : 086162108655
Release Date : December 27, 1999
Publisher : 20th Century Fox
Manufacturer : 20th Century Fox
Label : 20th Century Fox
Running Time : 145

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The hit Broadway musical from the 1940s gets a lavish if not always exciting workout in this 1955 film version directed by old lion Fred Zinnemann (High Noon). Gordon MacRae brings his sterling voice to the role of cowboy Curly, and Shirley Jones plays Laurie, the object of his affection. The Rodgers and Hammerstein score includes "The Surrey with the Fringe on Top," "Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin'," and "People Will Say We're in Love," and Agnes DeMille provides the buoyant choreography. Among the supporting cast, Gloria Grahame is memorable as Ado Annie, the "girl who cain't say no," and Rod Steiger overdoes it as the villainous Jud. --Tom Keogh

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Stay Away, Joe

Actors: Elvis Presley, Burgess Meredith, Joan Blondell, Katy Jurado, Thomas Gomez
ASIN : B000R3PDJ8
Sales Rank : 21871
Director : Peter Tewksbury
Brand : Warner Brothers
Studio : Warner Home Video
Region Code : 1
Format : Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Original recording remastered, Restored, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0012569797550
UPC : 012569797550
Release Date : December 07, 2007
Publisher : Warner Home Video
Manufacturer : Warner Home Video
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Label : Warner Home Video
Running Time : 102

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A half-Native American rodeo champ returns to the reservation to help his people prove they can be responsible cattlemen and finds that the bull sent to them for breeding has been slaughtered to celebrate his homecoming. Based on a novel by Dan Cushman.

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Love Me Tender

Actors: Richard Egan, Debra Paget, Elvis Presley, Robert Middleton, William Campbell
ASIN : B000068TQ6
Sales Rank : 16310
Director : Robert D. Webb
Studio : 20th Century Fox
Region Code : 1
Format : Anamorphic, Black & White, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0024543048145
UPC : 024543048145
Release Date : December 13, 2002
Publisher : 20th Century Fox
Manufacturer : 20th Century Fox
Label : 20th Century Fox
Running Time : 89

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Here's the alpha point of Elvis Presley's film career, the introduction of the raw-boned Mississippi boy into Hollywood pictures. E.P. takes a supporting role, and his entrance is delayed for nearly 20 minutes: kid brother to returning Civil War soldier Richard Egan, his character marries Egan's sweetheart Debra Paget when Egan is presumed dead. It's a chance for Elvis, his face still trembling with baby fat, to emote dramatically and finish tragically, both of which he does passably well. A serviceable Western, the film shamelessly shoehorns four Presley tunes into two sequences: E.P. crooning on mama's porch, and performing at a country fair (where starchy locals don't seem disturbed at the boy's gyrating hips and happy feet). All in all, a shrewd way to put a foot in Hollywood's doorway, and, of course, one of the last Presley movies to feel like a real film and not a vehicle for the King. --Robert Horton

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Gene Autry: Riders in the Sky

Actors: Gene Autry, Lynton Brent, Pat Buttram, Steven Darrell, Kenne Duncan
ASIN : B000UYN9N6
Sales Rank : 44823
Director : Jon English
Brand : Image Entertainment
Studio : Image Entertainment
Format : Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0014381347821
UPC : 014381347821
Release Date : December 20, 2007
Publisher : Image Entertainment
Manufacturer : Image Entertainment
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Label : Image Entertainment
Running Time : 71

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One of the greatest cowboy songs since "The Last Round-Up" and "South of the Border" launches Gene Autry on his most stirring adventure! RIDERS IN THE SKY finds investigator Gene Autry helping a gal clear the name of her father, who is accused of murdering a gambler. When the leader of the gamblers gets involved, it's up to Gene and his comic sidekick pal Pat Buttram to outwit and outfight the badland badmen.

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Calamity Jane

Actors: Doris Day, Howard Keel, Allyn Ann McLerie, Philip Carey, Dick Wesson
ASIN : B00005Y71I
Sales Rank : 37977
Director : David Butler
Studio : Warner Home Video
Region Code : 1
Format : Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Subtitled, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 9780790766355
ISBN : 0790766353
UPC : 085392229222
Release Date : December 30, 2002
Publisher : Warner Home Video
Manufacturer : Warner Home Video
Label : Warner Home Video
Running Time : 101

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This 1953 musical is very much a vehicle for Doris Day, in the title role, as a wild cowgal who can outshoot and outsing any boy on the range. When an actress arrives in Deadwood and uses her feminine charms on Jane's secret love, Wild Bill Hickock (Howard Keel), Jane tries to mend her tomboy ways. Not exactly up to the feminist code of honor, this is still energetic and Day is very perky. Of course, one could almost detect a homosexual undercurrent with the cross-dressing Jane, but this was Hollywood in the 1950s, so we best not. This won an Oscar for Best Song--"Secret Love," by Sammy Fain and Paul Francis Webster. --Rochelle O'Gorman

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Red Garters

Actors: Rosemary Clooney, Jack Carson, Guy Mitchell, Pat Crowley, Gene Barry
ASIN : B0009W5J6Y
Sales Rank : 42495
Director : George Marshall
Studio : Paramount
Region Code : 1
Format : Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 9781415708927
ISBN : 1415708924
UPC : 097360531442
Release Date : December 06, 2005
Publisher : Paramount
Manufacturer : Paramount
Label : Paramount
Running Time : 90

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In RED GARTERS, Clooney plays Calaveras Kate, a saloon owner and songbird who has her eye on the town's big shot, Jason Carberry (Carson). But when a romance fails to blossom, a frustrated Kate decides that a handsome cowpoke is the seemingly perfect device to use in her attempt to make Carberry jealous enough to marry her.

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Blazing Saddles

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Zachariah

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Oklahoma!

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Stay Away, Joe

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Love Me Tender

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Don't Fence Me In

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Rustler's Rhapsody

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