Warner Archive has done Western fans a big favor lately, beefing up their Randolph Scott inventory, bringing out the terrific Colorado Territory (1949, with Joel McCrea and Virginia Mayo) and making Westerns a sizable portion of their latest releases.
New ones include Marlene Dietrich in Fritz Lang’s Rancho Notorious (1952), a handful of Glenn Ford pictures including Burt Kennedy’s The Rounders (a personal favorite) and The Badlanders with Alan Ladd and Ernest Borgnine. The Warner Archive titles I’ve seen so far have been swell, maybe lacking in extras, but always looking good and letting me cross some key titles off my want list. Sometimes, a really strong transfer is Special Edition enough.
Another recent DVD release that seems to be flying under the radar is The San Francisco Story (1952), starring Joel McCrea and Yvonne De Carlo. Good movie — sadly, the DVD‘s only passable. But if you’re like me, anything with McCrea…
I am amazed at the number of fantastic Westerns that are
available on DVD in Spain. In fact the Spanish seem to be
slowly releasing the entire vintage Fox back catalog.
I recently purchased RIO CONCHOS,PONY SOLDIER
WAY OF A GAUCHO,CITY OF BAD MEN and POWDER RIVER
all incredibly rare films.The print of POWDER RIVER is really
good. I did not realise this film is based on the same source
material as Allan Dwans FRONTIER MARSHALL and John Fords MY DARLING CLEMENTINE. Rory Calhoun and Cameron Mitchell do not play Earp and Holliday but there are several key scenes lifted from the two previous films.
There is also a unexpected twist this time round.Cameron
Mitchell is outstanding as the lightning fast gun dying from a brain tumor.
The Spanish DVD I crave is the widescreen version of Gunman’s Walk.
Hello John
Which is the best, and best value site for buying the Spanish DVDs on the Internet?
Am I allowed to ask that sort of question on this site?
from Mike
Fine with me. Ask away!
John’s been a great source of foreign DVD information for me.