50s Westerns DVD/Blu-Ray News #261: El Paso (1949).

Directed by Lewis R. Foster
Starring John Payne, Gail Russell, Sterling Hayden, George ‘Gabby’ Hayes, Dick Foran, Henry Hull, Mary Beth Hughes, H.B. Warner, Denver Pyle

Kino Lorber has announced their upcoming DVD and Blu-Ray release of the 1949 John Payne picture El Paso. Directed by Lewis R. Foster, and co-starring Gail Russell and Sterling Hayden, it was shot in Cinecolor. It’s a post-Civil War story, with a lawyer (Payne) coming to El Paso, Texas, and staying to clean it up.

It’s a good picture with a great cast — I love Gabby Hayes in this. Payne is really cool, and Gail Russell is beautiful. Payne and Lewis R. Foster would team up again in a couple years for Passage West (1951).

El Paso‘s getting the glorious 4K treatment they’ve been giving the Republics. And they’re dragging out some guy to do another commentary. Watch for it this summer.

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Happy Birthday, Chuck Connors.

Chuck Connors
April 10, 1921 – November 10, 1992

Today, let’s remember the great Chuck Connors on his birthday.

He was a Dodger. He was The Rifleman. He was really good in The Big Country (1958). And that’s just getting started.

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Happy Birthday, Ward Bond.

Ward Bond
April 9, 1903 – November 5, 1960

Here’s Ward Bond, John Wayne and Dorothy Jordan in John Ford’s The Searchers (1956), a great way to mark Bond’s birthday. This is one of the best written, directed and acted scenes you’ll ever see.

Not sure what I’ll watch in tribute to Bond tonight. There are so many great things.

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Happy Easter!

Just wanted to wish you all a Happy Easter. And I can’t think of a better way to commemorate the King Of Kings than with the King Of The Cowboys and the Queen Of The West.

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