The next wave of titles in Columbia’s DVD-R program has been announced, with release dates of January 2011. 
Among the pictures are a handful of 50s Westerns, including Randolph Scott in The Nevadan (1950), co-starring Dorothy Malone and Forrest Tucker. Directed by Gordon Douglas, in Cinecolor, it’s one of the better non-Kennedy/Boetticher Scott-Brown productions.
Also coming are three Ray Nazarro Westerns — Streets Of Ghost Town (1950, wth Charles Starrett, The Black Dakotas (1954) and Return To Warbow (1958) — and two from Sam Katzman and William Castle: The Battle Of Rogue River (1964, with George Montgomery) and The Gun That Won The West (1955).
You’ll find these already listed for pre-order on Deep Discount.
Someone at Sony/Columbia certainly has a thing about Ray
Nazarro;not a bad thing either.
His Westerns like “The Lone Gun” “Southwest Passage”
and “Cripple Creek” have a real zip to them.
MGM were not known for programmer Westerns during the
Fifties but Ray cranked out one for them anyway;a good
one too (“The Hired Gun”) in lovely black & white scope
plus a less than 70 minute running time.
A Question:
Does anyone out there in fiftieswesternland know what the
quality is like on the Spanish DVD release of “The Lone Gun”
Thank you.
Its kind of a positive note that the new batch of titles from
this series (13 in all) includes 6 Westerns;the same ammount of oaters released in the initial opener of 100
titles!
I guess someone must be buying them!
The quality of these remastered DVDs is in my opinion
superior to the Warner Archive product.
Nice to see a Starrett” Durango Kid “title make it to DVD.
Bring on all the missing Randolph Scott and George
Montgomery titles I say;not to mention all that Sam Katzman,Wallace MacDonald stuff lurking in the vaults.