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Consciously crafted by director George Stevens as a piece of American mythmaking, Shane is on nearly everyone's shortlist of great movie Westerns. A buckskin knight, Shane (Alan Ladd) rides into the middle of a range war between farmers and cattlemen, quickly siding with the "sod-busters." While helping a kindly farmer (Van Heflin), Shane falls platonically in love with the man's wife (Jean Arthur, in the last screen performance of a marvelous career). Though the showdowns are exciting, and the story simple but involving, what most people will remember about this movie is the friendship between the stoical Shane and the young son of the farmers. The kid is played by Brandon De Wilde, who gives one of the most amazing child performances in the movies; his parting scene with Shane is guaranteed to draw tears from even the most stonyhearted moviegoer. And speaking of stony hearts, Jack Palance made a sensational impression as the evil gunslinger sent to clean house--he has fewer lines of dialogue than he has lines in his magnificently craggy face, but he makes them count. The photography, highlighting the landscape near Jackson Hole, Wyoming, won an Oscar. Read more

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shane
Shane is a classic. What more is there to say? If you haven't seen Jack Palance walk down Elisha Cooke, you don't know movies.

A Noble Era in American Filmmaking
There's nothing like revisiting a movie from your childhood (1953) & experiencing it 50 years later. Such was my re-entry back to this Western classic, a morality tale of Shane, a gunslinger-with-a-past who captivates all who meet him. Alan Ladd, in mid-career, plays the lead, opposite the charming, breathy-voiced Jean Arthur, who, in real life, was a late-blooming Hollywood actress, age 52 to Ladd's 40. Her devoted marriage in the film to the commanding homesteader Van Heflin is deepened by the obvious platonic attraction she and Ladd share, as does Jean Arthur's son, the young Brandon de Wilde, surely one of the screen's best child actors. De Wilde's open face & saucer-like blue eyes act as an exclamation point for Alan Ladd's unflagging character & integrity.
Shane
Good Old Fashioned Western.
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Long on Atmosphere, Short on Action - one of the best Westerns ever made
From the opening credits until the climactic confrontation at the end, this movie has the `feel' of a great Western.The tale is simple and relatively small in scope.A small town sheriff (played by John Wayne) and his ragtag groups of deputies and assistants (including Dean Martin, Ricky Nelson, and Walter Brennan) must hold a man (Claude Akins) arrested for murder in the town jail until the US Marshal arrives.Akins' brother, played admirably by John Russell, and his gang of ruffians will stop at nothing to break him out.Ward Bond, another longtime filmmate of Wayne's, also has a minor role.Angie Dickinson plays the love interest.This is a film about atmosphere and the interaction between the characters, not action, and is filled with multiple subplots.This film has the `feel' of the Old West, perhaps not as it really was, but as it should have been.The main line of the story progresses slowly, so if you are ADHD and can only keep interested with lots of gunfights and explosions, this film is probably not for you.Dean Martin's character is a recovering alcoholic and trying to become the man he once was.Wayne's character, while trying to hold his prisoner, is becoming entangled in a relationship with Angie Dickinson.It is really the development of these subplots and the relationships between the characters that make this film so memorable.One of the other reviewers states that this film is easy to watch, and I would agree.I can watch this movie over and over, and if you like Westerns with atmosphere, I think you will too.

We want more of J.T.
Back when entertainment entertained, there was Rio Bravo, the Gesamtkunstwerk of the Old West, what with the Tiomkin score, Big Duke in front of the camera, Walter Brennan complaining from off screen, and Howard Hawks behind the camera. BTW, I understand that scenes containing Harry Carey, Jr., were left on the cutting room floor. How about restoring them?

Sorry don't get it done, dude!

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"Funny what night does to a man!"
John Wayne plays a rancher, Dunston, who has a large ranch north of the Rio Grande in Texas.His adopted son Matt (Montgomery Cliff) returns from the Civil war to assist his father on the ranch. Due to post-war economic conditions, ranchers in Texas are unable to sell cattle locally. Dunston determines to drive 10,000 head of cattle to Missouri one thousand miles away. The trials and tribulations of the cattle drive, as well as the intricacies of the relationship between father and son are the primary focus of the movie.
Epic Western that is Character Driven
John Wayne at his best. An all star cast lift this film from a western genre to an intense character driven plot. An ego driven John Wayne is not so lovable as he pulls out the darker side of his character Tom Dunson. In his screen debut Montgomery Clift is riveting as Mathew Garth. He pushes his character into principles first as he is forced to go against his mentor. A great classic movie with great direction, great acting, and photograpy. If you are a western fan and a John Wayne fan... this classic is a must to own.

I tried, but I'm sorry it just isn't a very enjoyable movie to watch.
After reading all the accolades and excitement about this movie, I went ahead and bought it.It has been decades since I saw a John Wayne film, but I do remember that he was not known for his acting range.I will say I thought his performance was good and his character was somewhat interesting.But the overall story was only mildly engaging, and I found the violence to be gratuitous.I'm all for violence when it is properly placed and appropriate, but I just didn't find the final scene, where Dunson kills Cherry and then makes up with Matt just yards away, to be believable.As they wrap up the light-hearted ending, I am still thinking about Cherry (who appeared in the movie nearly the entire way from Texas) lying dead just a camera pan away, while we are just supposed to forget about him and laugh it up about how Dunson isn't such a bad guy after all.I guess I just missed the point about how Dunston could just mow down so many people throughout the movie, and then at the end suddenly everything's supposed to be fine.I guess that is how we are supposed to believe the Old West was, but for me it left me cold. ... Read more

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seven samuri:The farmers always win.
The magnificent seven parallel the characters in seven samurai:1. Old man consults village leaders too fight the bandits and adventure to the city seeking men willing to protect the village 2. Vin and Chris decide take a funeral hurst, up a hill, and deliver the body of an indian chief at the burial site. An act of valour that brings fame to Chris.3. Chico is the young man, who wants to be part of the group but humilated by Chris in a quick draw contest, where Chris grabs Chico gun midflow. 4. Harry Luck joins the fight believing that Chris is scheming to defend the village because Chris has discovered Gold.In the scene where Harry has been shot and dieing, he asks Chris how much gold was found and Chris tells him half a million dollars worth. 5. Bernardo O'Reilly joins the group referred by Harry as an expert gunfighter. 6. Britt is the expert weapons specialist. Britt kills a man in a duel after being provoked in the fight.Britt beats the man in a draw and lodges his switch blade in the chest of the man before he can pull his weapon.Britt is the expectionally skilled fighter. The weapons specialist.Vin is also an exceptional clever gunfighter with a trade mark ability to shot in 360 degrees almost instanteously. 7. Lee joins the group and is supposely on the running from his enemies.Lee figures staying in Mexico will provide him a hiding place from his enemies.Lee is impartial to the villagers cause, but an exceptional fighter.In one scene Lee manages to kick in a door, enter, and kill a room full of bandits with injurying any of the villagers. Lee is killed in the last standoff.8. Chico discovers Petra and falls in love with her.After the last battle with the bandits, Chico returns to live with Petra in the village.Chico is the son of a farmer and not really a gunfighter but his boldness and courage win him a place among the magnificent seven 9.Chris is offensive and attacks the bandit hide out increasing the odds of survival. 10.Some of the farmers want to meekly give the bandits food, money, and women.Chris refuses this idea and teaches the villagers how to shoot guns. 11. Calvera is a new innovation in villians. Calvera is clever and whitty. Calvera underestimates Chris determination too defend the village and as he is dieing says, "I don't understand, your not suppose to be that type of man."

One of the better US-style westerns
Looking back at westerns in a 21st century point of view, sometimes we tend to look to into the acting and production styles of a different era. Our opinions may jump quickly at these differences, but we must recognize the style of the era and the technology up to the era as well. In Sturges' The Magnificent Seven, an all-star cast is assembled to bring the Seventh Samurai in a western setting. The ones that stand out are Yul Brynner as Chris, the Bald-Headed leader that still carries himself like a king. He never takes his hat off and doesn't break a sweat. Steve Mcqueen in an earlier role is memorable as well with his non-verbal acting. To me though, Eli Wallach shines as Calvera the "heel" with more liberty to exhibit more flair than the rest of the cast. He plays his role so good that in the end, I always root for him.
A weak, sexist, American piece of bubbly cheese.
Yul Brynner stalks about like he's in Westworld, acting super-tough, smoking every chance he gets. Steve McQueen, as always, is terrible. As for the rest of the "7", their acting is atrocious to non-existent. Only Eli Wallach walks away unscathed. Yet if these things are irritating, it is the blatantly sexist and racist undertones to the entire affair that just make it heinous. Yul Brynner actually says that he "might" rape the women of the town in one scene sarcastically. Amazing this could have ever been construed as being "tough". It's just ridiculous, and these distinctions are what sepeartes this pathetic remake from the masterpiece it shames. But I'll give it one extra star for being relatively well staged and directed.
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THE LAST GREATWESTERN By JOHN FORD
America's Greatest Director John Ford had at age 67 had one more great Western to add to his canon, Cheyenne Autumn, which followed two years later was well intended, but just average.This story is the story of a myth, but one that is allowed to live on because, " This is the West,...and when the myth becomes the legend, print the legend ", or so says Shinbone newspaper editor Carleton Young ( Ford's favoriteWASP ) to Senator Ransom Stoddard, played by Jimmy Stewart, "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance ".The Senator is back in Shinebone to attend the funeral of Tom Doniphon ( John Wayne). Stoddard is famous, Doniphon unknown, and here is where the story takes off with Stewart telling Young and Paul Birch the real story of Liberty Valance.
Thought provoking western....
This is a well told story about the changing times of the Old West. Statehood and civilization stand poised on the edge of a small western town(Shinbone) anxiously awaiting a push to get started.An unlikely savior comes to town in the guise of an Eastern tenderfoot lawyer named Ransom Stoddard(Jimmy Stewart).After his baptism by fire at the hands of Liberty Valance(Lee Marvin), while trying to defend a female passenger during a stage holdup, he is befriended by the rugged individualist Tom Doniphon(John Wayne).Stoddard brings ideals, law and order into a town that has pretensions for..but not much else.The town of Shinbone is full of good people and all the right things to make it completely civilized. What is needed is a spark or event to move them in the right direction. That spark or event is a showdown shootout with Liberty Valance and an unwitting Ransom Stoddard.The results, of the shootout, catapult the territory and Stoddard on to their destiny.
The twilight of the old west!
Liberty Valance is often cited as one of the top westerns of all time.The opening shot portrays the theme of the film--a locomotive chugging busily through wild country symbolizing the coming of civilization to the West.John Ford directs this classic black-and-white movie even though most filming by 1962 was done in color.Apparently Ford chose to film Liberty Valance in black-and-white to emphasize the classic theme.
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I Liked It...Just Not as Much as Everyone Else Does.
"The Searchers" is considered by many to be a masterpiece of both the Western genre and of movies in general. It's even on The American Film Institute's Top 100 (#96). I liked the film; It's got a lot of good things about it, but one thing I look for in a film to really call it "Great" is entertainment. The movie is entertaining, but a movie on that same list that's a few notches below it ('Unforgiven') was a much better movie; Both as a film and as entertainment. Anyway, I've seen over a thousand movies and have somehow never seen a John Wayne film. Wayne plays Ethan Edwards, a former Confederate soldier who shacks up with his brother and his family. After they're all killed and his two nieces are kidnapped, Ethan sets out on an obsessive quest to get them back. One of the nieces is found dead soon after and the rest of the film is about them trying to find the living one Debbie (Natalie Wood). Along with him is Martin Pauley (Jeffrey Hunter), a man Ethan doesn't really like. Ethan hates indians and Martin is 1/8 Comanche. Early in the film, you find out that Ethan actualyl saved Martin when his family was killed by indians and gave him to his brother and his brother's wife. Even though he seems disagreeable, it sounds like Ethan's quest in honorable enough. But, you'd be wrong. He's not out to save Debbie, but to kill her. When people are kidnapped by the indians, they pretty much become one...And Ethan can't have that. The movie takes place over a long time span and there were times that, I thought, the movie seemed longer than it was. The film has beautiful cinematography though, especially when you consider that the film was released in 1956. John Wayne's performance is very good and, you find later, multilayered. Having read about the film a little bit, I found that it inspired movies like Taxi Driver and even the Buddy Holly song
A great reproduction of a great movie with a great set of Extras
I need to preface this review with the comment that I am not a John Wayne fan. However "The Searchers" is often said to be the Duke's best movie. And it is clear from here that he was no cardboard cut out actor and, if anything, his real talents were underused in his career. Still "The Searchers" is a classic and deserves to be better known.
On the Edge of Perfection
Okay, let's get it said and out of the way: "The Searchers" is one of the greatest films ever made. There, it's done. We can move on now. It can be hard to view, and harder still to write about, a film with such reputation for greatness and such a deep background of commentary as John Ford's 1956 classic. The film holds great cultural weight and a completely objective approach to the film is, for most, impossible. It is the most quintessential film of the most quintessential American genre, and its themes and characters take on infinite meaning towards the country and people they represent. It is perhaps the richest western ever produced in both scale and content. And yet "The Searchers" is really two films in one, and while many like to conveniently ignore its failures, they still fall from the screen cold and lifeless whenever viewed. The film is great because of its challenge to the commonly held notions of history, both cinematic and actual, that have produced it, and yet it still gets caught up in the pitfalls it at other moments so brilliantly rejects. For as much as we would like it to not be, "The Searchers" is still a studio film of Old Hollywood, and a western to boot, and despite it undisputable greatness, at times in the film this is painfully evident.
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John Wayne hams it up as a one-eyed, broken-down marshal in this 1969 adaptation of Charles Portis's bestselling novel. Kim Darby plays the formal-speaking adolescent who goes to Wayne for help tracking down her father's killer, and singer Glen Campbell straps on his guns to join the quest. Directed by old lion Henry Hathaway (Read more

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John Wayne is always great
I enjoyed this movie despite Glen Campbell's clunky acting.I had seen it before, years ago and it was still as entertaining.

Watch out for snakes!
The story of True Grit reminds me, a tad, of Hang Them High.John Wayne, playing a U.S. Marshall called Rooster Cogburn, is hired by a strong willed young girl, played by Kim Darby, to bring back the man who killed her father.
wayne makes this movie work
this is the movie that won john wayne his oscar and while he is very good i think he has had better roles than this but not as colorful. something happens here as wayne goes away and "fat" rouster cogburn shows up. wayne makes you feel every sore,pain and even every drink he takes. the action of helping a girl hunt down her fathers killer is really just a jumping off point so that wayne can work his magic and turn an ok western into a great one!! ... Read more

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One of the greatest Westerns ever made gets the deluxe treatment on this superior disc from Republic Home Video's Silver Screen Classics line of special-edition DVDs. Written by Carl Foreman (who was later blacklisted during the anticommunist hearings of the '50s) 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 realizes he'll 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. Additional features include the exclusive documentary Read more

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A haunting and disturbing movie drama when it first came out
I have read a number of good reviews of this DVD on this site, especially the one written by Dennis Littrel. I will thus only add a small personal impression. I remember seeing this movie when it first came out and being troubled by the sight of the 'good guy' so disturbed and unsure of himself. This is not what we were expected to see from Western heroes. Also troubling was the possibility that the good guy somehow might not win. Also troubling was the involvement of the good guy with another woman in a way which could not be understood by a very young person. If he had a fiancee then what was he doing with this elderly Mexican woman?
"I've never run from anybody before."

High Noon
This movie hails as one of the classics of all times. The storyline always keeps you on the edge of your seat waiting for the final challenge of whose going to come out on top of the showdown and which gunfighters will live and die.
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excellent
Just what the doc ordered for relaxation and old memories of the simpler days.

Big Jake
John Wayne at his best."Your fault, my fault, no body's fault!"

Nice pairing of Boone v. Wayne
Easily Wayne's best pic of the year
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Clint Eastwood's second film as a director (and his first Western) is a variation on the "man with no name" theme, starring Eastwood as the drifter known only as "the Stranger." He rides into the desert town of Lagos and is quickly attacked by three gunmen. Recovering with the aid of a local dwarf (a memorable role for Billy Curtis), the Stranger is hired by the intimidated townsfolk to fend off a band of violent ex-convicts. After teaching the citizens self-defense and instructing them to paint the entire town red and rename it "Hell," the Stranger vanishes. He reappears when the marauding criminals arrive, and delivers justice and teaches the townsfolk a harsh lesson about moral obligation. Is he a figure from their past or a kind of supernatural avenger? Combining humor with action, Read more

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"Only problem you've got Sheriff is a short supply of guts."
By the late 1960s Academy Award winner Clint Eastwood (Pale Rider, Unforgiven) had certainly established himself as an actor with such features as The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966), Hang 'Em High (1968), Where Eagles Dare (1968) before also taking on the role as director in his film Play Misty for Me (1971).High Plains Drifter (1973) was Eastwood's 2nd directing gig, written by Ernest Tidyman (Shaft, The French Connection) and featuring Eastwood himself.Also appearing is Verna Bloom (Animal House), Geoffrey Lewis (Every Which Way But Loose), Marianna Hill (Schizoid), Mitch Ryan (Lethal Weapon), Jack Ging (SSSSSSS), Stefan Gierasch (Silver Streak), Ted Hartley (Ice Station Zebra), Walter Barnes (Every Which Way But Loose), Anthony James (Unforgiven), Dan Vadis (Bronco Billy), and Billy Curtis, one of many little people featured in the film The Wizard of Oz (1939).
An early directorial gem from Eastwood.
HIGH PLAINS DRIFTER was only Clint Eastwood's second film as a director, but it demonstrates the sure hand, unusual tone and solid craftsmanship that would later mark such films as UNFORGIVEN.Cut very much from the same cloth as some of the moodier Italo-Westerns, HIGH PLAINS DRIFTER tells a hard-edged tale of hypocrisy, revenge and murder that never stops surprising the audience.
Best horror/western
This movie is amazing.The Stranger comes out of the ether in the beginning of the movie as a lone horserider appears like a blurry mirage riding through the desert.He enters the small mining town of Lago.All eyes are on him as he rides down the street.What happens next is original, violent, and politically incorrect.This movie should be seen by all fans of westerns and the twilight zone.
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excellent battle scenes.......wrong story & details
Although I've seen The Alamo many times and love it as a true war classic, it tells a fictional account of the battle. For instance, Col.Travis, played by Lawrnce Harvey, is tooflamebryot in his character....The real Col.Travis wasn't like that. Second, the palisade wall between the Alamo church and the Lower Barracks is only built about 4 to 5 ft. high....the real palisade wall was about 10 to 12 ft. Third, when Bonham returns to the Alamo, he brings news that Fannin isn't coming because he was ambushed by part of Santa Anna's army....in the real story, Fannin is in Goliad and he said he couldn't come relive the Alamo because his wagons and other equipment broke down and he couldn't move, so he goes back to Goliad and decides to hold up there as long as he could. Fourth, when Travis tells the men that no help is coming, he simply tells them if they want to go out and maybe join up with Houston's small army, they can....in the real thing, he tells them what's really happening and he takes his sword and draws a line in the dirt and asks whoever wants to join him in the fight for freedom, come over to him. Fifth, in the real story, there was a big cannon known as the 18 pounder that was put at the south-west corner of the fort and it was the cannon that fired the thunderous 'No' at Santa Ann's request for surrender....in the movie, the 18 pounder wasn't seen at all. And finally, Jim Bowie's character, played by Richard Widemark, is okay, but in the real thing, Bowie was 6.ft 6.in tall and in the movie, Bowie looks like he's 6ft. 2in tall...........Despite these inaccuracies, this movie is great because of it's large battles scenes, which were really good. I loved the part where James Bowie fights to the end and takes a bunch of Mexicans with him, and I realy liked that 7-barreled shotgun that Bowie used in the end. All-in-all, this movie is a good one if you like a good western. I recemend it.

This is the One to Get!
THE ALAMO is one of my top 10 favorite movies of all time. THE ALAMO is one of our nation's greatest cinematic icons of "Film Americana" ever made. Through word, song and picture the legend of the Alamo was handed down and stills lives today. Men and women of different religious, ethnic and social backgrounds came together and died or lost loved ones at the Alamo in a noble effort to overcome tyranny and preserve basic human freedoms. John Wayne preserved that legend on film. John Wayne produced, directed and starred in this epic mixing nobility with bawdiness resulting in a reverence for the ideals of the defenders seen through their personal lives and conduct. The cast, script, production design and score added to the richly textured look and feel to the film. John Wayne is effective in his portrayal of Col. David Crockett. However, John Wayne takes a back seat to the brilliant performances of Laurence Harvey as Col. William Travis and Richard Widmark as Col. James Bowie as they feud and bicker over the virtues of military protocol vs. and expedience. Wayne in turn approaches the role of Crockett as the levelheaded onlooker who interjects this legend with passages of homespun witticism to keep the defenders from losing focus of their reason for being there. The entire cast is very good. You get the feeling that the actors gave a little more of themselves to deliver this story. Ken Curtis as Capt. Dickinson, Chill Wills as Beekeeper, Richard Boone as General Sam Houston, Joan O'Brien as Mrs. Dickinson, Patrick Wayne as Capt. James Butler Bonham, Hank Worden as Parson, Denver Pyle as Gambler, Linda Cristal as Flaca, Ruben Padilla as General Santa Anna and Frankie Avalon as Smitty all deliver staunch or heartfelt performances. Cinematographer William Clothier's images are proud and majestic depicting the honor of the defenders. James Edward Grant's script is intelligent, energetic and moving. Equally energetic and moving is the eloquent and multi-textured score by Dimitri Tiomkin. Tiomkin's scoring of the final battle scene is brilliant and highly overlooked. Tiomkin integrates the nobility of the combatants with the fervor of the conflict and with simple queues he emotionally captures the falling of each defender in a brief moment of reflection as the battle rages on. His song "The Green Leaves of Summer" is beautiful, reflective and haunting and is effectively integrated into the context of why the defenders gave their lives. This director's cut version is incredible as it gives us further insight into the motivations of the defenders. This uncut version vastly explores many of the characters and their interwoven relationships especially between Laurence Harvey's Colonel William Travis and Ken Curtis' Captain Dickinson. This uncut version demonstrates definitively that THE ALAMO is one of America's greatest films and a vision come true thanks to John Wayne's determination and insight to what drives the American spirit.

pure enjoyment.
I only recently saw the full version of the Alamo.I must say it was excellent.Great stuff.As a non American I am jealous of your heroes.Only flaw was the historical in accuracies.Why not tellit as it happened?Other than that,Mr.Wayne did a superb job. ... Read more

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John Wayne drew on what he learned from John Ford, Howard Hawks, and practically everyone who directed him during his long career when he made his own directorial debut on this labor of love. Read more

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It's one of those love-hate things.
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Victory Or Death!
John Wayne's directorial tribute to the struggle for "The Alamo" symbolized the spirit of resistance of a small group of determined fighters for Texan independence from Mexico...
Amother Historic John Wayne winner in the tradition of the Fighting Seabees
Wayne and Rich Widmark outstanding in
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Clint Eastwood (the Man with No Name) is good, Lee Van Cleef (Angel Eyes Sentenza) is bad, and Eli Wallach (Tuco Benedito Pacifico Juan Maria Ramirez) is ugly in the final chapter of Sergio Leone's trilogy of spaghetti westerns (the first two were Read more

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you know nothing about Tuco
One of Leone's most memorable flicks,Clint Eastwood reprises his role for the third time as the man with no name,or Blondie,in this flick.In this installment,a kind of Rat Race-type situation occurs where a lone ranger,a robber,and a baddie get involved in a plot to get $50,000 first.There begind a perilous journey of betrayal,murder,and revenge.I especially like the character Tuco,with his quick,fast wit and hillarious habits,it's hard not to laugh.Lee Van Clef is also brilliant as angel Eyes,the baddie in the flick who tries to take out Blondie and Tuco.It's a roller coaster ride to the end.

This film finally gets the red carpet treatment from MGM!!!
Finally "The Good,The Bad and The Ugly" finally gets the red carpet treatment it deserves from the guys at MGM Home Entertainment!!! This superlative 2-DVD set includes the extended version of the film in both English and Italian!!! Wow!!! It sports BOTH great picture and sound!!! It also contains a wealth of extras to enjoy!!! This great DVD set will keep you amuzed for hours!!! And to cap it off,it comes in a nice collector's case!!! A very well rounded package of a very superior western starring Clint Eastwood,Lee Van Cleef,and Eli Wallach!!! Sure, it costs "a few dollars more" than the standard single disc version but it's well worth the money!!! Two thumbs up!!! Five stars!!! A+

WHAT'S THIS!!--BLOOPER?
I SAW THIS MOIVE AS A YOUNG TEENAGER WHEN THIS CAME OUT AT THE
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