If you end up at WalMart over the holiday, you might want to fish around in the $5 DVD bin — because there’s good stuff to be had in there. Image Entertainment has released a slew of triple-feature sets, with three films stuck on a single DVD — at five bucks a pop.
There are no technical specs on the packaging, so I tried one and was happy to find that my five-dollar gamble had paid off — Image has licensed the nice anamorphic transfers that are available elsewhere for more money. There are no extra features of any kind.
In addition to these Western sets, there are collections of war pictures (one has Andre de Toth’s excellent Play Dirty from 1968), a Corman/Poe/Price disc, and lots of Chuck Norris and Charles Bronson things.
I really dig Escort West (1959). You can’t beat black and white ‘Scope. Day Of The Outlaw (1959) is one of the best 50 Westerns of them all — we can spend the holiday weekend arguing that one, if you want. And John Sturges’ Hour Of The Gun (1967) deserves far more credit than it gets.
Whether they’re worth a trip to WalMart is a matter of personal taste.
I also really liked ESCORT WEST when I saw it for the first time earlier this year. Well-paced story and a great cast. Worth the price!
Happy Thanksgiving!!
Best wishes,
Laura
Toby,
The MGM Movie Collection
Chato’s Land / Duel at Diablo / Escort West / The Ride Back
4 Westerns: Chato's Land / Duel at Diablo / Escort West / The Ride Back!
DVD Release Date: October 5, 2010
* Amazon has new ($20.49) and pre-owned ($6.89 & Up)
3 Pack Westerns
Valdez Is Coming/The Ride Back/Buffalo Bill and the Indians (2011)
Valdez Is Coming/The Ride Back/Buffalo Bill and the Indians
DVD Release Date: November 22, 2011
* Amazon has new ($11.49) and pre-owned ($8.33 & Up)
Glad to see these coming out on DVD and at such good prices.
Grew up on Westerns, can never get enough of them.
Happy Thanksgiving!
Mr. Jim
The huge Eastwood box set, with the book and 35 movies (20 discs), is going for $99–at Cosco, and Amazon, at $100. And Amazon is throwing a great many goodies for under $10 on Blu-ray, including those fourth beautiful Connery Bond movies with all the extras, double disc versions of Raging Bull. Not too many cheap Blu-ray Westerns, though, as yet.
Good time to be shopping for those important people on your list, namely yourself!
That Eastwood thing for a hundred bones is a steal!
I am thankful that I live in a land without Walmarts. Although I wouldn’t mind having these.
Thank you for the head’s up. Going to the local Wal-Mart right after work. Chato’s Land, and Lawman are both guilty pleasures. I’ve got a framed half-sheet of “Hour of the Gun” hanging in my family room. One of James Garner’s best.
Hour Of The Gun is an excellent Western that is sadly overlooked. It’s sacrilege, but I think it’s a better picture than Gunfight At The OK Corral.
[...] It’s one of those twin-bill $5 DVDs from TGG Direct, paired with Gary Cooper in Along Came Jones (1945), and dumped in those big bins full of DVDs. TGG has been licensing plenty of stuff from Fox/MGM, some of which I’ve mentioned before. [...]