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wow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i loved this movie...very true and majical!!!!!!and i love Anjelica Huston.altho this wasn't her best role.i am looking foward to watching Dead Man's Walk.the prequel to Lonesome Dove.and also with her new movie she's making called Comanche Moon.these movies have to be the best westerns ever made..i hate westerns but these i have to agree with.and i also watched Buffalo Girls.with Anjelica of course.but that was also a very very very good western.and i think the true meaning of these westerns aren't just trust but also many other things...very very honest and much much more.if you have the time please watch Lonesome Dove.or better yet watch Lonesome Dove,Buffalo Girls,Dead Man's Walk,and when it comes out..Comanche Moon.can't wait...heres my e-mail..i am 13 dudes!!!!!
My 2�
Even if you're not a fan of westerns, DO WATCH THIS MOVIE!!! It will become one of your favorites. Great story - fine, fine acting by all - super cinematogrophy and wonderful music. Larry McMurtry at his best! And the movie portrays the book nearly word for word (but is better because you'll feel like you're actually LIVING the story).

We Don't Rent Pigs
How many works of cinema are worth sitting through for 6 hours? Not many at all, but here you can't put it down. An unvarnished portrayal of the best and worst of humanity under harsh conditions. It makes you wonder where you would fit in, in this cinematic worldly epic. Most movie Westerns pale in comparison, especially the pop pseudo western bravado ones. Lonesome Dove finds the strength in humanity despite man's frail existence in nature. You don't have to like Westerns to love Lonesome Dove. ... Read more

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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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Open Range vs. Barbed Wire....Kirk To The Rescue
Directed by King Vidor, "Man Without A Star"(1955) is a Western lover's Western. Kirk Douglas stars, as a drifter with no particular star to follow. He moseys into town, after saving the life of a young cow-poke wannabe, and we are treated to his fun side and lots of smiles as he whoops it up with saloon gal-pal Claire Trevor.
THE MAN WITHOUT A STAR
ONE OF THE BEST WESTERNS OF OUR TIME, KIRK DOUGLAS REALLY SHOWS HIS ACTING RAGE HERE. ALOT OF PEOPLE DON'T KNOW ABOUT THIS FILM BECAUSE IT DEALS WITH ISSUIES LIKE WHAT IT REALLY TAKES TO BE A MAN, OR GUN OR TWO FISTS. FRIENDSHIP, RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN A MAN A WOMAN. DRIFTER WHY HE DRIFTS TOWN TO TOWN. AND LAST HONOR. I WISH HOLLYWOOD WOULD WAKE AND SMELL THE COFFEE AND PROCLAIM THIS FILM OF ONE OF THE FINEST OF ALL TIME!!!!!!!

Very good, under-rated western.
This is probably my favorite Kirk Douglas western. Although it has plenty of action this is not just another action western. Rather it deals with the implacable transition of the west from open range available to all to individually-controlled patches of range that are fenced off with barbed wire. Dempsey Rae (Douglas' character) loves open range and keeps drifting north to avoid the barbed wire which destroys it. Finally, however, he realizes that the small ranchers must fence off the range to protect themselves from the massive herds of a greedy rancher and her ruthless foreman and helps string and protect the wire that he hates so thoroughly. I love this under-rated western. ... Read more

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This much-maligned big-screen version of the well-loved radio and TV show stands as one of the rare cases in which the entire performance of one of a film's stars was redubbed by another actor. (For the others, see Andie McDowell in Read more

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BAD BAD BAD FAITH
I don't know if this has been addressed in the other reviews, but when this movie came out (I remember it like it was yesterday) the filmmakers took out a court injunction against Clayton Moore to prevent him from wearing the mask in public (appearances, conventions, etc.) as it would interfere with the new film. For this reason I've never seen it and never will. The producers will not get a dime from me ... EVER.

Good Western, Great Horse!
Come on, this was a fun action movie, worthy of at least Good "B Flic" status. Just the horse scenes alone are worth making a nice DVD release. Thirdeyenine.

Time for a re-evaluation
Granted, this film could have received better treatment if Clayton Moore had been treated a little better. Now that he has passed, let's look at it from another perspective. It actually was a better than average flick. Spilsbury's acting was a little amateurish. Over-dubbing his voice really showed a lack of confidence in his abilities. It's time to release it on DVD so a new generation can express their opinions. ... Read more

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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. Read more

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Oh the camptown lady sing this song dooda dooda!
so hilariously funny. bart (clevon little) plays one of the slaves and becomes the first black sherriff that offends the white town of rockridge and his first white friend jim (gene wilder) who is reffered to as the waco kid. No one would except the new sherriff and the bad guys would try to kill him buy sending mongo or lili von shtup. So funny that melbrooks should keep doing more and more funniest movies. another old movie of the late 70s but very good I give it 5 stars.

An important work of art
(4.5/5 stars) This film is so good because we all know people who are racist or who harbor prejudices against an ethnic or religious group. Brooks lays all of this bare and then confronts this bigotry directly by making a black man and his Jewish partner the heroes of the movie. True, the Gentiles don't fair very well in the movie because it seems every one of them winds up being portrayed as racist, mindless or both. As a Gentile, this does not bother me because I believe the point Brooks was trying to make is that during the period in which this film takes place, the 19th century, the white majority largely viewed the non-white minority as second class. Certainly there were enlightened people who earnestly believed all races and classes should share the same privileges, but this was after the Civil War and long before the era of Civil Rights. Blacks were free, but were very far from being accepted in business or as part of white society as a whole. It is within this setting that Brooks devises an astute commentary on the topic of race relations. When the Governor (Brooks) makes Bart (Cleavon Little) sheriff (as part of a self-serving plan, incidentally), no one takes it seriously because the town sheriff is a person the townsfolk respect and upon whom they rely (or at least hoped) for safety. How will these whites come to terms with having a sheriff they do not respect, and whom they view as being naturally inferior and therefore incapable of protecting them? This is not one of those condescending, guilt-ridden movies that white people make wherein the black man with a heart of gold is redeemed at the end only because a sympathetic white character shows him some pity. (See: To Kill a Mockingbird, The Green Mile, etc.)No, in this movie, the black characters are seen as being clever, intelligent and talented enough to redeem themselves based on their own terms. Yes, there are racial epithets and stereotypes that are offensive and politically incorrect; however, these are used to illustrate the ignorance and intolerance of the offender rather than as a valid way of inciting the offended. Much of the humor is sophomoric and scatological, so one's appreciation of the film will likely be in direct proportion to one's proclivity for such humor. Listen for Frankie Laine singing the title song and watch for a cameo by Count Basie. The finale is rather weak and I wish Brooks would have ended it before it spilled over the set, which is why I stop short of giving it five stars. The anniversary DVD is presented in anamorphic widescreen and looks great.
Classic Comedy
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Three Western stars (Martin Short, Steve Martin, Chevy Chase) from Hollywood silent films go to Mexico for what they assume will be a publicity appearance, and find they've actually been summoned to fight a local bandit. John Landis directed this 1986 comedy with self-conscious artifice, and it's hard to get into his self-congratulatory joke. Even the three main stars, brilliant comics all, can't sustain anything funny in it. Read more

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"Wherever liberty is threatened, you will find... The Three Amigos!"
Directed by John Landis and written by Steve Martin and Lorne Michaels, THREE AMIGOS stars Steve Martin as Lucky Day, Chevy Chase as Dusty Bottoms, and Martin Short as Ned Nederlander.The trio is a group of sub-par actors in the hey-day of silent movies.Their films have been a landmine for Goldsmith Studios.However, their last picture bombed and the studio wants the trio to return to their usual format for their next picture.The Three Amigos request a few demands from the studio chief Harry Flugleman (Joe Mantegna) and are promptly fired and kicked out of the studio.Looking for work, the trio receives a telegram from a small Mexican village seeking the assistance of The Three Amigos.The village is being terrorized by a fierce bandit gang that imports their guns from Germany and the villagers seek defenders.One of the villagers sees a Three Amigos picture at a church and mistakenly believes it to be a documentary and sends the telegraph.Desperate for employment the trio answers the call and arrive for a show.They just weren't expecting real bandits with real bullets.
Fun, clean slapstick comedy
I remember seeing "The Three Amigos" in the movie theatre way yonder in my days of youth. At the time, I thought it was the funniest film I had ever seen. Three of my favorite SNL stars Chevy Chase, Steve Martin, and Martin Short in one film. How much funnier can a movie be? Not much.
We Are The Three Amiiiiiiigos
In my opinion one of the best comedies I have seen.
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Excellent
I couldn't be more pleased with this seller's service: fast delivery, & a quality product.

A Western the way it should be
This is a well done, made-for-TV Western based on the Louis L'Amour novel of the same name.There is so much to like in this movie.This is not some grand epic like `Dances with Wolves', the scale and scope of the action are small, and the plot straightforward.The casting and acting are great.Sam Elliot was put on this Earth to play the role of L'Amour's quiet loners.He has such a great voice and presence.Katherine Ross, his love interest in this movie and his wife in real life, is also outstanding.Conagher has some great lines in this movie, as other reviews have alluded to.Ken Curtis (Festus!) also has an important role in this movie.Any Western with Festus can't be bad.The cinematography is terrific.Beautiful shots of the wilderness, the badlands, and the open sky.This movie is also full of atmosphere.Without trying to describe what atmosphere is in a Western, the best Westerns (such as John Wayne's Rio Bravo, and including this film) have it.There is also a certain gritty realism to this movie that is lacking in many Westerns made in the past twenty years.The characters get dirty and tired.One small point about this film that I really found compelling was that the shots and lever actions of the Winchesters sound as they really do.Most gunshots in movies don't sound like real gunshots.This is a small but important detail for realism, and it really adds to the experience of being part of the action, not just a distant observer.The only reason that I don't give this movie five stars is that the editing and transition between scenes are horrible.Perhaps this is an artifact of TV (commercial breaks) or perhaps it indicates that there were more scenes initially shot that were cut from the finished film, I don't know.Scenes just abruptly end, and there are discontinuous, seemingly random jumps, in time and space in the film.It makes the final product somewhat choppy in my opinion.This is a great (and underappreciated) Western in any case, and a worthy addition to any collection.

Great movie - caution to parents
I really think this is a great movie, Very little swearing, some fist-fights and gunslinging. Clean enough for my 8 and 11 year old boys to watch.However, be careful parents, because on the DVD, the preview to other movies contains frontal nudity.(accessible through the main menu)You might want to store it out of their reach.
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Misunderstood 70's Classic
Sure, the dialogue doesn't always make sense to the plot, but that's because the plot is so slight that the characters have time to talk. A lot of the dialogue is in non sequitar form, and for some reason a lot of people just can't get over that fact, mainly because they need their stories spoonfed to them. There are a lot of hilarious bits. For instance, Paul Newman's character has an anger problem, but he doesn't really want to hurt anybody and he always feels guilty for everything he does. At one point, as he's losing an argument with Strother Martin over some money he just walks over to a TV set and drops it out of a hotel window. He's not doing it to scare anybody, he's just frustrated. I bet more people feel like Newman's character than most of the ones you have ever seen in film. At another point, he kicks over a tiny trash can in a park, again frustrated in an argument over money. But, as he tries to walk away he gets an exasperated look on his face and walks back and puts the trashcan back in place. He simply felt too guilty. Now, maybe I just have a more finely tuned sense of humor than most people, but that cracked me up. I have felt, and done, that many, many times.
Don't know why I like it, but I do.....
Maybe I like this because it seems so dated in the 70's. Maybe I like it because of the awkward dialog that sometimes is painful to watch.Despite being filled with stars and featuring a really good song by Carole King, it comes off as low-budget. The characters are great - Newman plays an honest simpleton and Marvin's character seems suspiously like Kramer from Seinfeld (seriously, watch this and tell me Kramer didn't steal his act from him!) If nothing else, I like it because it reminds me of a simpler time.

Low Expectations Pay Off
If you were sitting in the theater about thirty minutes into this film, you gotta start wondering: where the heck is this going? If you continue to watch for the pay-off (figuratively and literally) you'll wind up just like Newman and Marvin's characters--amused but unsatisfied. Pocket Money made pocket money on its release, but that's not because it isn't good. In its way, it is a real gem, especially for Newman and Marvin fans. It just requires the viewer to appreciate the journey and not the destination. If you like "slice of life" character studies, you'll rate this 5 stars; if you want action, resolution, and easy to follow plots, you'll rate this 1 star, so I figure it averages a 3.
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No studio was better than Darryl Zanuck's 20th Century-Fox atdishing out lovingly textured Americana, of which this movie is a primeexample.The outlaw gets canonized as an American Robin Hood, anhonest farmer who, with post-Civil War Missouri overrun by corruptagents of the Railroad, had no choice but to start robbing banks andtrains to achieve a measure of social justice the System wouldn't provide. Tyrone Power as Jesse is quietly out-acted by Fox's emerging star HenryFonda as brother Frank.The supporting cast is solid--Randolph Scott,Nancy Kelly, Brian Donlevy, John Carradine (as Bob Ford), Jane Darwell,Donald Meek--but the liveliest thing in the movie is Henry Hull, playing anewspaperman whose editorials invariably prescribe that whomever he'sdenouncing be "taken out and shot like dawgs." Fonda, Hull, andCarradine re-created their roles the following year in Read more

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Jesse James rides again
A fun movie to watch that added to the legend of Jesse James.Was he the Robin Hood of the west as the movie protrays?Who cares, this is just classic old time western fun.A great cast that Includes Tyrone Powers Jr., Henry Fonda and Randolph Scott!!That is three aces right there.Follow the adventures of the James boys as they are almost forced to attack the evil railroads and the robber barons that ran them.Doesn't that sound familar in this age where many people distrust the big corporations of today?Really though, do not get to philosophical over this.It is a western, and a good one at that.

Awful, just awful
Whatever significance this film has, it derives from the stellar cast. Tyrone Power and Henry Fonda do a credible job portraying Jesse and Frank James despite a screenplay that takes criminal liberties with the historical record. You may find it entertaining, but don't come away from it thinking you've learned anything useful about the James boys. The distortions become all the more shocking when you realize that there were still people alive in western Missouri who remembered the original people and events when this silly thing was released.

Enjoyable movie, but historically inaccurate
"Jesse James" has talented actors, a quality script, and attractive, colorful cinematography. However, it is wildly inaccurate from a historical perspective. The way Jesse James is lionized in this movie is hard to stomach if you know the facts. I will concede that Jesse was a colorful, brave man who loved his family, and had a tough life growing up, but he was also a thief and a cold-blooded killer. That should be remembered when watching this movie, which is at least 50% fiction.Typical Hollywood propaganda. ... Read more

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Even people habitually hostile to John Wayne movies tend to cast an indulgent eye on this rumbustious comedy-Western--partly because the Alaska gold rush setting seems more exotic than, say, Texas or Arizona, and because there are no Indians to discriminate against and no macho gunplay to fret about. As for John Wayne as all-purpose icon of male chauvinism, Big Sam McCord (the Duke) spends much of Read more

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Northto Alaska 1960
This rousing comedy-adventure set in the Alaskan gold rush finds buddies Sam (John Wayne 1907-1979) and George (Stewart Granger 1913-1993) hitting the mother lode in Nome . George then asks Sam to fetch his sweatheart Jennie in Seatle . But when sam discovers that she has married someone else he concocts a plan to bring George a new love , inviting a beautiful dancer (Capucine 1931-1990) to be Jennies replacement . Even though "North To Alaska" is a rousing western , it was a dramatic change for John Wayne as an actor . More famous for throwing punches than punch lines , he was given a change to also show his lighter side and play for laughs . Made on place In Alska and Washington .Razor sharp transfer and a movie your keep for many years . Higly Recommended

North to Alaska
this is one of John wayne's ventures into comedy.The movie is based on Johnny Horton's song where Sam McCord and George Pratt go to Alaska during the gold rush and strike it rich, while George pines away for his Sweet Jenny. That's where the similarity ends. In the movie, Sam, played by John Wayne, goes back to Seattle to bring Jenny back, while George, and Brother Billy, remain behind to build a honeymoon home for Jenny. Sam arrives at Seattle only to find Jenny married to another man.Sam has a few drinks and convinces a saloon showgirl to go back with him, as a bride for George. Then the fun begins.

Disappointed
My family hated this movie; in fact, they hated it so much it has become an in-joke.Apparently stating this in my review has gotten me several "not helpful" votes, but I bought the DVD based on all the positive reviews, and I think prospective buyers should be warned that not everyone finds this a 5-star movie.It has not aged well.There are some John Wayne movies that are among our all-time favorites (McClintock, the Quiet Man), and I was really looking forward to this one, especially since we had just been to Alaska.However, the story was uninteresting, the direction was uneven, the comedy (mostly bar fights) felt forced and awkward and the movie never "gelled".Stewart Granger did not seem to know what he was doing or why his character was there.Fabian's acting was unmemorable and we felt Capucine was miscast.We got bored and spent half the movie pointing out to each other how little the sandy beaches and desert terrain looked anything like Alaska (it was obviously shot in southern California).I gave it two stars because I was able to sit through the entire thing, but I spent most of it asking myself "why?Why am I wasting my time like this?" ... Read more

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Could have Been a Lot Better
Chisum shows John Wayne nearing the end of his great career and still great. The movie is superficially faithful to history - there was a Lincoln County War, John Chisum and Lawrence Murphy were the main antagonits. John Tunstall a supporter of Chisum was murdered, probably at Murphy's behest. And Pat Garrett and Billie the Kid were there and Bonney did seek out Chisum for help. And Billie did revere Tunstall. This is all in the movie, so the pieces were there for a truly great Western....
100% John Wayne
Another great John Wayne movie. How can you beat a movie with the Duke in it?? This is no exception. Good guys vs. bad guys. Gunfights. Great cowboy fare. If you love John you will love this movie.

Another Epic
A typical John Wayne movie and I have enjoyed most all of his westerns.He was a great cowboy.Miss him.
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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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"The Fastest Gun Alive": The Greatest B&W Western of All Time
The Fastest Gun Alive (1956), starring Glenn Ford, Jeanne Crain, and Broderick Crawford--directed by Russell Rouse--is the greatest B&W Western film ever made.
Fastest Gun Alive
I usually don't like westerns, but this one really caught my attention. It doesn't thrive on a lot of difficult sets and action. It's definately a thinker's western. Here you have a fighter who doesn't want to fight, a town with a secret and promise that they'll have a hard time to keep from breaking to save itself. Very suspenseful and very well done.

Ford's Best Western
Glenn Ford was one of our alltime great Western movie actors. In his heyday, he was great at combining fragile humanity with raw strength and brute force.
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Exciting western with impressive cast
Rio Conchos is a very good western with violence that is still a bit startling when you see it today, much less in 1964.A wagon train carrying 2,000 new repeating rifles has been stolen causing the army to worry where they went.Two soldiers team up with a drunken ex-Confederate officer and a bandit to track down the missing guns.While searching, they discover a Confederate officer, Colonel Theron Pardee, who is trying to start the Civil War all over again by giving Apache warriors the new repeating rifles.The small group must try and stop him as they battle Mexican bandits, Apache warriors, and even themselves.Rio Conchos is a grim western with a very realistic tone.The violence seems out of place for the time, but it is still very effective, most notably in the torture scene towards the end.Jerry Goldsmith turns in another excellent score, sometimes reminiscent of Bandolero.For an enjoyable yet dark western, check out Rio Conchos. Apocalypse Now south of the border
Rio Conchos is a very action filled outing very similar to 2 other films but good in its own right. It stars Richard Boone and Tony Franciosa as 2 renegades who team with 2 soldiers played by Stuart Whitman and Jim Brown in his debut to track down an ex-Rebel Colonel played by Edmond O'brien. He is trying to reestablish the confederacy in Mexico using stolen rifles and Apaches as his new troops. The Jerry Goldsmith score is superb and the action is constant. The film is much like Whitman's earlier effort The Comancheros with John Wayne, and has some noticeable parallels to 1979 Vietnam movie Apocalypse Now. The journey upriver, the renegade Colonel using native troops,etc. all predate Coppola's effort. After a recent viewing I speculated if screenwriter John Milius may have been influenced by this film. A definite favorite of mine and one of the most rugged westerns of the 1960's.

One of the best Western's ever - fast paced, tight and tense
Ranks with 'True Grit' as one of my favorite Westerns. Richard Bonne at his grizzled, onery best. Tony Franciosa is also memorable as Major Lassiter's (Boone) cutthroat Mexican sidekick. This movie has it all,cavalry, apaches, banditos, confederate renegades, stolen repeating rifles- hard core all the way. Jim Brown's movie debut as the loyal, strong,silent, US Cavalry Sergeant. Quite violent and ruthless for a 1964 movie.Jerry Goldsmith's accompanying musical score is also excellent. ... Read more

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Outstanding Western
Only the Valiant is an early example of what might be called the
Gran actuacion de Gregory Peck en excelente western
Only the valiant es un western que cumple con todas las reglas del genero. Sobresalen las actuaciones protagonicas de Peck y de Ward Bond en el papel de soldado borrachin. Es de destacar los valores morales del protagonista que se arriesga a una accion suicida para salvar su honor y el de lacaballeria. Es memorable la escena en que el Cap.Lance (Peck) forma a lapatrulla para explicarles por que eligio a cada uno para esa mision. ... Read more

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So Many Great Songs!
I saw "Annie Get Your Gun" again this weekend live on stage.I had forgotten just how many great songs Irving Berlin wrote for this masterpiece! --"You Can't Get A Man With A Gun", "The Girl That I Marry","Doin' What Comes Naturally," "Anything You Can Do I can do better," "They Say falling in love is Wonderful," "I Got the Sun in the Morning and the Moon at Night," and the classic anthem "There's No Business Like Show Business."If you haven't seen or heard this musical, please do yourself a favor and get this film on tape or DVD.
Annie Get Your Gun 1950
A Sure-as-shooting musicalfavourite makes it long-awaited debut ! . Betty Hutton (1921- )as Annie Oakley (1860-1926) and Howard Keel (1919-2004) as FrankE . Butler (1850-1926) Star in this sharpshootin? funfest based on the 1,147-performance Broadway smash boasting Irving Berlin (1888-1988) beloved score , including " Doing what comes naturlly" , "I got the sun in the morning" , "Thre?s no Business like showbusiness" . As Produced by Arthur Freed (1894-1973) directed by George Sidney (1916-2002) and seen and heard in a new digital transfer from restored elements , this lavish , spirited production showcases songs and performance with bull?s-eye precision , earning an Oscar for their adaption scoring . The story is a brawling boy-meets-girl meets-buckshot rivalry . But finally triuphs when Annie proves that , Yes , you can get a man with a gun ! . Think you do not need more info that this is a Super movie in High quality transfer and that this movie are a joy to watch many times , alone or with your family , Highly recommended !

Annie Get Your Gun
I actually bought this DVD as a gift for someone who said this version of Annie Get Your Gun, starring Betty Hutton,is the best one.She has watched it numerous times and enjoys it. ... Read more

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The way that you wander is the way you choose, the day you tarry is the day you lose
Jeremiah Johnson has always been one of my favorite films and one that comes highly recommended.
Imagining memories.
This story gives me the chance to get back to nature the way it waswhen the free trappers still roamed the west.My whole familyloves watching it time and again.

starkly beautiful
There is a poetry to this movie that has stayed with me - from the first time I ever saw it, when it first came out. From the haunting strains of Indian flutes as we first see the ferry bringing Jeremiah to the first stop in his new life - a trading post outfitting those intrepid or crazy enough to disappear into the wild - to the end, when he has weathered more than anyone today probably could survive, we are absorbed into a world that will never be possible again. Trappers routinely sleep in deep snow without tents and without freezing to death; a mountain man, mauled by a bear and incapacitated, calmly writes out his last will and testament, leaving his rifle to "whutever finds it - Lord hope it be a White man", and freezes to a tree; another mountain man shaves his head to prevent himself being scalped.
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Rustler's Rhapsody
I love the premise--that of the old-time good guys meet the spaghetti-western bad guys.
HILARIOUS!
A wonderful send-up to old cowboy movies! Great cast! My grandson (6) LOVED this movie and doesn't seem to catch the double entendres (which are SO good!! Highly recommend - 5 stars!

Ganbgs of Fun!
When I first saw this movie, it was on a whim. I didn't know what to expect, but I saw the cast and figured that I couldn't lose. I went into the theatre, sat down and was immediately taken back to the fifties when I would religeously watch the westerns that littered the airways way back before the advent of Cable TV. Rustlers Rhapsody is just lots of fun, especially if you remember the likes of Roy Rogers, Gene Autry, Tex Ritter, and The Lone Ranger. The fancy clothes, the silver saddle, the polished two-gun rig and of course, the Wonder Horse. Rustlers Rhapsody is a tip of the hat to all that, and more. When I say more, they even make fun of Modern day westerns like the Italian gems we had seen in the 70's. Interjected with modern day humor and moral values, I had to laugh at all the gags and situations presented. (I am especially fond of the scene where the short cowpoke walked up to the town drunk and asked for a light.) If you want a good old fashioned fun time, I heartily recommend Rustlers Rhapsody. If you were born between 1945 and 1955, this one will touch a nerve and keep you giggling for a good while. ... Read more

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Ladd and Lake in a sizzling crime thriller!
This Gun for Hire struck a deep chord with the movie viewing audiences of 1942 since this was the movie that made Ladd a big star.This is the first pairing of Lake and Ladd in a film--a combination the studios were to repeat often.
"Ugly people, blackmailers...only one way to deal with them."
While Alan Ladd (The Blue Dahlia, Shane) certainly had plenty of time in front of the camera in bits parts early in his career, it wasn't until he appeared in the feature This Gun for Hire (1942), his first of seven films he'd make with costar Veronica Lake (Sullivan's Travels, The Blue Dahlia), that he became a star.Based on a novel by Graham Greene (The Third Man), adapted to the screen by Albert Maltz (Destination Tokyo) and W.R. Burnett (Little Caesar, High Sierra), and directed by Frank Tuttle (Gunman in the Streets), the film stars, as I've mentioned, Alan Ladd and Veronica Lake.Also appearing is Robert Preston (The Music Man, Victor/Victoria), Laird Cregar (The Black Swan, The Lodger), Tully Marshall (The Covered Wagon), Roger Imhof (Drums Along the Mohawk), Marc Lawrence (Key Largo), and Yvonne De Carlo (The Ten Commandments, "The Munsters"), in a bit part early in her career.
"I Don't Remember Breaking Any Commandments."
Grahame Greene's novel "A Gun For Sale" is brought to excellent life in this 1942 early film noir. This was Alan Ladd's breakthrough performance, and although he is billed under the title with introducing credits, he had made many films prior to this, often in small, unrewarding roles, sometimes uncredited. His Philip Raven is cold-blooded, ruthless, but vulnerable, his abusive past always foremost in his mind, although he shows a soft spot for cats, children, and Veronica Lake. In their first pairing, Ladd and Lake show the electric intensity that made them a great screen pair of the 1940s. Both were petite, blond, with cool acting styles that belied their sometimes sensitive natures, no matter what kind of a tough front they presented. Lake's character, Ellen Grahame, is a nightclub performer (her vocals were dubbed by Martha Mears), who finds herself drawn into spying on her rather suspicious boss. Laird Cregar is the almost sympathetic villain, Gates, who burned Raven and in doing so, has signed his own death warrant. Robert Preston portrays Ellen's fianc?e, Lt. Michael Craven, who is determined to capture Raven. When Ellen unwittingly finds herself alongside Phillip on a train, she ends up in on his "job" and, later in the proceedings, as his 'hostage'. They soon form a rather tentative bond as Raven relates his horrendous childhood beatings at the hand of a nasty relative. She reaches out to him, and although he rejects her comfort (he thinks she's trying to make him "go soft"), he agrees to help her get Gates to reveal his dastardly plans for America involving bombs (this was during WW2, after all). There is an almost misty eyed longing in their faces, sensing that maybe, if in another time or another place, things might have been different. A touching moment when Raven rests his head on Lake's shoulder on the train, his telltale deformed wrist exposed.
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