50s Westerns DVD News #76: The Wonderful Country (1959).

February 14, 2012 by Toby

With this on the way, this is a wonderful country indeed. Coming February 28. Details here.

I know that a lot of you, like me, have been hoping and praying for this one.

on February 14, 2012 at 10:20 pm | Reply Blake Lucas

Hoping and praying describes it perfectly.

Here’s how much I think of this movie. I saw an original 35 Technicolor print (from a private collector) that UCLA showed last year, so not pining to see it at the moment. And yet it’s still one of the Westerns I’ve most hoped would be on DVD. And this is a happy surprise–someone had said sometime ago that there was some music rights issue that might prohibit its release, so it looks like that person was wrong and I’m sure will be glad to know it.

If someone asked me “What would an ideal Western be?” I would be very tempted to name this–and for all kinds of reasons.
on February 16, 2012 at 1:41 am | Reply Andrew

I know “The Wonderful Country” has played on MGM HD, so here’s hoping the transfer is better than decent.
In other news: “The Jayhawkers” is coming to Blu-ray (yes, Blu-ray) from Olive Films: http://www.classicflix.com/jayhawkers-bluray-p-12250.html
Never seen it, but A.I. Bezzerides (“Kiss Me Deadly”, “They Drive by Night”) is one of the writers and Leo Gordon and Henry Silva are in it (along with jeff Chandler and Fess Parker) so it must be good.
on February 16, 2012 at 5:34 am | Reply Colin

Excellent movie. I already have a copy of this but I’m glad it’s more readily available now for those in the States.
on June 2, 2012 at 8:33 pm | Reply John Agee

Great! Now, where’s Blood on the Moon?