Have at it, folks! Five Warner Archive titles for just $45 with free shipping.
Lots of good stuff to choose from, from Devil’s Doorway (1950) to Yellowstone Kelly (1959) — with Carson City (1952) somewhere in between. Unfortunately, those Tim Holt sets don’t count.
And if you want a non-50s non-Western, I’d recommend On Borrowed Time (1939). What a wonderful little movie it is.
I recently saw “Yellowstone Kelly”, Clint is at his massive man best in this one too. Talk about filling a screen, he makes even the horses look like midgets. “Y. Kelly” has the added bonus of being in beautiful eye popping Warner Color. Everyone in the movie did a fine job and John Russell plays an Indian, so what’s not to like. Also, reminiscent of “The Searchers”, there’s a scene in “Y. Kelly” where the shadowy silhouette of Clint is in the frame of the open door of a cabin looking from inside out, just as it was exactly seen in The Searchers with Duke the black silhouette that time.
FORT DOBBS is worth the money too!
There are also three excellent Joel McCrea films STARS IN MY CROWN,
THE OUTRIDERS and WICHITA.
THE FASTEST GUN ALIVE is also an essential release.
Returning to Big Clint Olive Films are supposed to be releasing
NIGHT OF THE GRIZZLY sometime this year.Had the big fella come
down the pike a few years sooner he would have been one of the Fifties
biggest Western stars!
Nice to see someone name-drop underrated John Russell.
It seems churlish to ask for anything from the Archive at the moment
especially with those super Monogram sets but it wolud be lovely to
see some of those super-rare Allied Artists Fifties Westerns
I am thinking about titles like FORT VENGENCE,ARROW IN THE
DUST,SON OF BELLE STARR,JACK SLADE,RETURN OF JACK
SLADE,OREGON PASSAGE,COLE YOUNGER GUNFIGHTER,
GUNSMOKE IN TUCSON and THE TALL STRANGER.
Also the big budget Warner Westerns SOUTH OF SOUTH LOUIS and
THE CHARGE AT FEATHER RIVER.
FYI, my coupon code was different, meaning they’re unique and you may have given yours away to a lucky reader! I’m guessing they only sent those to customers who bought from them last year.
Fortunately for my wallet, I’ve finally found a local video store that stocks a lot of MODs, so I’ve put down the Warner Archive crack-pipe for the time being.