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Prisoner of Shark Island (The Ford at Fox Collection)

Actors: Warner Baxter, Gloria Stuart, Claude Gillingwater, Arthur Byron, O.P. Heggie
ASIN : B000WMA6G4
Sales Rank : 61524
Director : John Ford
Brand : TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT
Studio : 20th Century Fox
Region Code : 1
Format : Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Subtitled, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0024543482703
UPC : 024543482703
Release Date : December 04, 2007
Publisher : 20th Century Fox
Manufacturer : 20th Century Fox
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Label : 20th Century Fox
Running Time : 96

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Studio: Tcfhe Release Date: 12/04/2007 Run time: 96 minutes Rating: Nr

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4 for Texas

Actors: Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Anita Ekberg, Ursula Andress, Charles Bronson
ASIN : B00005NTNS
Sales Rank : 22872
Director : Robert Aldrich
Studio : Warner Home Video
Region Code : 1
Format : Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 9780790762722
ISBN : 0790762722
UPC : 085392149520
Release Date : December 20, 2001
Publisher : Warner Home Video
Manufacturer : Warner Home Video
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Label : Warner Home Video
Running Time : 115

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Rat Pack buddies Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin were prized for their ability to appear relaxed on camera, but in 4 for Texas they're nearly asleep. It must have looked good on paper: reuniting the crooners and teaming them with two international sex symbols in a jokey Western under the guidance of topnotch director Robert Aldrich (Kiss Me Deadly). Ursula Andress, as a riverboat owner who hooks up with Dino, unleashes her bedroom purr to great effect, but formidable Anita Ekberg had a bad year in 1963 (she also got stuck in Bob Hope's immortal Call Me Bwana). A tasty roster of character actors is wasted, although Charles Bronson and Victor Buono are amusing as unsavory citizens of 1870s Galveston. Even the Three Stooges, in their Curly Joe configuration, wander through. After a terrific opening sequence in the desert, establishing Frank and Dean's rivalry, this one quickly goes south. --Robert Horton

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She Wore a Yellow Ribbon

Actors: John Wayne, Joanne Dru, John Agar, Ben Johnson, Harry Carey Jr.
ASIN : B000063K1U
Sales Rank : 49179
Director : John Ford
Studio : Turner Home Ent
Region Code : 1
Format : Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Subtitled, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 9780780625259
ISBN : 0780625250
UPC : 053939642322
Release Date : December 04, 2002
Publisher : Turner Home Ent
Manufacturer : Turner Home Ent
Label : Turner Home Ent
Running Time : 103

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The second installment of John Ford's famous cavalry trilogy (which also includes Fort Apache and Rio Grande), this meditative Western continues the director's fascination with history's obliteration of the past. It features one of John Wayne's more sensitive performances as Capt. Nathan Brittles, a stern yet sentimental war horse who has difficulty preparing for his impending military retirement. All things considered, he refuses to leave before fulfilling his obligation to the local Indian tribe. It's a film about honor and duty as well as loneliness and mortality. And Oscar-winner Winton C. Hoch beautifully photographs it in Remington-like Technicolor tones (you've never seen such stunning cloud-covered skies). The combination of melancholy and farce (Victor McLaglen makes a perfect court jester) evokes comparisons to Shakespeare. Best of all, the scene in which Wayne fights back tears when receiving a gold watch from his troops is unforgettably bittersweet. If you view the whole trilogy, it actually makes sense to save this for last. --Bill Desowitz

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Marilyn Monroe - The Diamond Collection II (Don't Bother to Knock / Let's Make Love / Monkey Business / Niagara / River of No Return)

Actors: Marilyn Monroe, Yves Montand, Cary Grant, Ginger Rogers, Robert Mitchum
ASIN : B000062XG8
Sales Rank : 39754
Director : George Cukor, Henry Hathaway, Howard Hawks, Jean Negulesco, Otto Preminger
Studio : 20th Century Fox
Region Code : 1
Format : Anamorphic, Box set, Black & White, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0024543035428
UPC : 024543035428
Release Date : December 14, 2002
Publisher : 20th Century Fox
Manufacturer : 20th Century Fox
Label : 20th Century Fox
Running Time : 476

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Contains: *Don't Bother to Knock *Let's Make it Legal *Monkey Business *Niagra *River of No Return

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Some essential examples of the Marilyn Monroe mystique make up this second collection of titles from MM's years at Twentieth Century Fox. After sparkling in small roles, she burst upon the public consciousness in 1952, thanks to five films and a certain nude calendar. Two of the 1952 pictures, showing very different sides of the new actress, are included here. One is Monkey Business, Howard Hawks's raucous comedy about a youth serum, in which top-lined stars Cary Grant and Ginger Rogers regress to a state of adolescent abandon, with Monroe doing spot-on supporting duty. Don't Bother to Knock gives Marilyn her first lead role, in a tense little film noir; she's a babysitter with an unstable streak, a fine performance hinting at depths rarely touched in her career.

In Niagara, Monroe is a full-fledged sex goddess, a scheming wife tormenting husband Joseph Cotten in their cabin by the falls. This Technicolor slice of pseudo-Hitchcock is a fun location picture with a genuinely exciting climax. Otto Preminger's River of No Return has Marilyn livened up by the presence of costar Robert Mitchum, in a strong outdoorsy Western that catches the two stars in appealing form. By the time of 1960's Let's Make Love, MM looks tired. This backstage musical is more interesting as a time capsule than as a romance, although one number shines: "My Heart Belongs to Daddy." Less urgent for Monroe fans than the first Diamond Collection, this set is still a good one for the die-hards. --Robert Horton

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The Man from Colorado/Man from Laramie/Man in the Sandle

Actors: James Stewart, Arthur Kennedy, Donald Crisp, Cathy O'Donnell, Alex Nicol
ASIN : B001EKP5F0
Sales Rank : 47907
Director : André De Toth, Anthony Mann, Henry Levin
Brand : Sony
Studio : Sony Pictures
Region Code : 99
Format : Box set, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0043396281165
UPC : 043396281165
Release Date : December 04, 2008
Publisher : Sony Pictures
Manufacturer : Sony Pictures
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Label : Sony Pictures
Running Time : 289

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The Man from Colorado
A judge teeters on the brink of insanity... a town on the edge of revolt. And only one man stands between them in this powerful western featuring two of Hollywood's greatest leading men. Glenn Ford delivers a mesmerizing performance as Owen Devereaux, a sadistic Civil War vet who continues to kill for the joy of it even after he becomes a judge. William Holden is outstanding as Del Stewart, Devereaux's marshal and ex-army pal who tries to restrain the judge's violent nature. When Devereaux's psychotic behavior forces the townspeople to take up arms against him, the former friends are pited together against each other in a brutal conflict with fatal consequences. The suspense never falters in acclaimed director Henry Levin's tightly woven tale which delves into the devastating psychological effects of war.

The Man from Laramie
An intensely satisfying drama of rugged primitive justice, The Man From Laramie marked the final, and finest, collaboration of one of the most important teams in Western films: director Anthony Mann and star Jimmy Stewart. Together this perfectly-matched pair provided audiences with eight classic pictures, including Winchester '73 and Stategic Air Command. Under Mann's superb direction, Stewart departs from his well-loved "ordinary hero" role and gives a riveting performance as a resolute vigilante obsessed with finding the man responsible for his brother's death. Among the suspects are an arrogant cattle baron (Donald Crisp), his sadistic son (Alex Nicol) and his ranch foreman (Arthur Kennedy, in the best performance of his career). One explosive confrontation, in which Stewart is dragged by a wild horse and shot in the hand at close range, is one of movie history's most memorable sequences. Among the first Westerns filmed in CinemaScope, The Man From Laramie uses the widescreen technology to emphasize the scope and power of this harrowing action-drama, making it a perfect example of the Western as America's epic art form.

Man in the Saddle
One of the great Westerns of the '50s, Man in the Saddle has Randolph Scott doing what he does best: Ridin', shootin', seeing justice done and gettin' into fist fights. He is a small-time rancher who loses his girl to a big-time rancher. She sees the error of her ways only too late.

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Anthony Mann made some of the greatest Westerns of the 1950s, all in partnership with James Stewart. Perhaps needing to prove himself as his own man, in 1957 Mann dropped out of Night Passage to do this film. It's a rather schematic character study about a lawman-turned-bounty-hunter (Henry Fonda) who undertakes the professional shaping-up of an effete young sheriff (Anthony Perkins) too tentative to police the streets of his town. Those streets are compositionally present right outside the oversize window of the office where Perkins undergoes a lot of his soul-searching and arguments with Fonda. That's typical of the film--scrupulously designed, yet abstract to the point of dramatic aridity. The VistaVision black-and-white of cameraman Loyal Griggs (Oscar®-winner for Shane) is at once stark and glossy. Fonda's own reclamation as a social being is accomplished by way of a not-very-interesting subplot involving Betsy Palmer and a half-breed child played by Michel Ray. --Richard T. Jameson

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How the West Was Won

Actors: James Stewart, John Wayne, Gregory Peck, Henry Fonda, Carroll Baker
ASIN : 0792839072
Sales Rank : 53097
Director : George Marshall, Henry Hathaway, John Ford, Richard Thorpe
Studio : MGM (Warner)
Region Code : 1
Format : Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Letterboxed, Widescreen, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 9780792839071
ISBN : 0792839072
UPC : 027616629227
Release Date : December 28, 1998
Publisher : MGM (Warner)
Manufacturer : MGM (Warner)
Label : MGM (Warner)
Running Time : 150

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The first feature film to be photographed and projected in the panoramic three-camera Cinerama process, this epic Western is almost as expansive as the West itself, chronicling a pioneering family's triumphs and tragedies in numerous episodes spanning three generations and a half century of westward movement. Divided into five segments directed by veteran Hollywood filmmakers Henry Hathaway, George Marshall, and the legendary John Ford (and including uncredited sequences directed by Richard Thorpe), the film was one of the most ambitious ever made by the venerable MGM studio. Its stellar cast reads like a virtual who's who of Hollywood's biggest stars. Debbie Reynolds plays a sturdy survivor of many pioneering dangers, and the eventual widow of a gambler (Gregory Peck), who is later reunited with her nephew (George Peppard), a Civil War veteran and cavalryman who heads for San Francisco as the transcontinental railroad is being built. Many more characters and stories are woven throughout this epic film, which is dramatically uneven but totally engrossing with its stunning vistas and countless outdoor locations in Illinois, Kentucky, South Dakota, Monument Valley in Arizona, California, Colorado, and elsewhere. --Jeff Shannon

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In Old Arizona

Actors: Henry Armetta, Warner Baxter, James Bradbury Jr., Joe Brown (III), Dorothy Burgess
ASIN : B0007PALPW
Sales Rank : 64360
Director : Walsh, Raoul
Brand : Old
Studio : 20th Century Fox
Region Code : 1
Format : Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0024543172956
UPC : 024543172956
Release Date : December 24, 2005
Publisher : 20th Century Fox
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Running Time : 99

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Studio: Tcfhe Release Date: 05/13/2008 Run time: 95 minutes Rating: Nr

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Chino

Actor: Charles Bronson; Jill Ireland; Marcel Bozzuffi; Fausto Tozzi
ASIN : B001JP63LK
Sales Rank : 64303
Director : John Sturges; Duilio Coletti
Studio : Synergy Ent
Region Code : 0
Format : NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0883629614656
UPC : 883629614656
Release Date : December 30, 2008
Publisher : Synergy Ent
Manufacturer : Synergy Ent
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Label : Synergy Ent
Running Time : 98

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A half-breed horse breeder lives alone and is unwelcome until a boy shows up looking for work. Chino teaches him how to care for and train horses and they bond.

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El Dorado

Actors: John Wayne, Robert Mitchum, James Caan, Charlene Holt, Paul Fix
ASIN : 6305754950
Sales Rank : 78541
Director : Howard Hawks
Studio : Paramount
Region Code : 1
Format : Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 9786305754954
ISBN : 6305754950
UPC : 097360662573
Release Date : December 21, 2000
Publisher : Paramount
Manufacturer : Paramount
Label : Paramount
Running Time : 126

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El Dorado doesn't quite have the scope or ambition of Howard Hawks's greatest Westerns, Red River and Rio Bravo. But this relaxed picture, made near the end of Hawks's marvelous career, still shows the steady, sure hand of a master. Hawks reunites with John Wayne, playing a hired gun mixed up in a range war; Robert Mitchum is Wayne's old pal, now a sheriff in the midst of a hopeless drunken bender. James Caan, in one of his first sizable roles, plays a kid who can't shoot straight and wears a funny hat (every character in the movie makes fun of this hat). As the plot moves along, it begins to resemble Rio Bravo rather closely ("I steal from myself all the time," Hawks was fond of admitting). But in El Dorado the heroes are a bit older, their powers a bit weaker; at the end Wayne must revert to a bit of subterfuge in order to get the drop on the steely gunslinger (ice-cold Christopher George) he needs to put down. As relaxed as the movie is, Hawks and Wayne and company are in good spirits, with plenty of broad humor and easy camaraderie on display. Hawks and Wayne would make just one more film, the disappointing Rio Lobo, before ending their fruitful partnership. --Robert Horton

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Prisoner of Shark Island (The Ford at Fox Collection)

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4 for Texas

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She Wore a Yellow Ribbon

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Marilyn Monroe - The Diamond Collection II (Don't Bother to Knock / Let's Make Love / Monkey Business / Niagara / River of No Return)

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The Man from Colorado/Man from Laramie/Man in the Sandle

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How the West Was Won

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In Old Arizona

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Chino

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El Dorado

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