Buffalo Girls

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Believe it or not, the Wild West did exist.......2007-09-12

A good TV film. The main characteristic is typical of TV films or mini-series. It is slightly too slow and it concentrates too much on close up shots of characters or faces, and less on action, vast movements that the TV screen cannot capture. The story itself is based on the life of Bill Hicock and Calamity Jane, and of course Buffalo Bill. You can find them in Cody, South Dakota, with the Buffalo Bill museum, but also the Colt Museum and the Indian village Museum. You can visit the reconstituted western village composed of all cabins and houses recuperated everywhere in the west, and of course the cemetery with the tombs of Bill Hicock and Calamity Jane and a few others. You also have the rodeo ground and the old western saloon where some wild cowboys regularly organize some real true false holdups and gunfights in the street. This film is a commemoration of this period when the wild west turned into the not so wild west and pretty soon the no longer wild west. The film is trying to show this period and these characters from inside their psyches and it is pretty sure not to become over-sentimental. But it provides us with a picture of that wild west that is rather interesting and definitely human. The other side of the traditional western films with the guns, the fights, and the dishonest settlers or exploiters of settlers. And it is good to have that other vision, particularly with the women, and why they came to the west. But also the nostalgia that inhabited the minds of the pioneers, the trappers, the hunters and also, but far behind in this film, the Indians who were seeing a mode of living, a life style disappearing, and themselves along with it. The shortcoming at this level is that it did not explain enough the new world that was coming out of it, that was emerging.

Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, University Paris Dauphine, University Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne & University Versailles Saint Quentin en Yvelines

Buffalo Girls.......2007-08-18

By the end of the week I sometimes need just a "light" "chick" flick. I decided that I wanted this one in my collection. It is well worth a large bowl of popcorn and soda. :o)

More realistic because of the extras.......2007-07-12

THis movie had hundreds of extras and was filmed in New Mexico. The local extras brought a realism to the story line just with their presence.
Way to go NM Extras!

underated western, great historical script.......2006-12-19

good actors, great story... some good action too... this is great movie to help put together the bits and pieces of the stories you've heard about Wild Bill Hickok, Calamity Jane, and more. It all may be true history, it may be fictional, it may just be myths mixed with fact, but whatever the case, there's more truth than not in this version of the 1870's

Buffalo Girls.......2006-08-05

It was rather drawn out. I had expected more. The characters were'nt up to par although a lot of good actors were in the movie.

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Now that thar's whut I call a REDNECK!
Gritty, Haunting & Eerily Sublime ...
There vampire's
Be Bitter if this movie was before your time
A Terribly Underated Vampire Film...

Near Dark
Starring: Adrian Pasdar , Jenny Wright , Lance Henriksen , Bill Paxton , and Jenette Goldstein
Director: Kathryn Bigelow
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ASIN: B00006CXGP
Release Date: 2002-09-10

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The word "vampire" is never mentioned in Near Dark, but that doesn't stop this 1987 cult favorite from being one of the best modern-era vampire films. It put then-unknown director Kathryn Bigelow on Hollywood's radar and gave choice roles to Aliens costars favored by Bigelow's ex-husband James Cameron: Lance Henriksen is the leader of a makeshift family of renegade bloodsuckers, nocturnally seeking victims in rural Oklahoma; his immortal gal pal is Aliens and Terminator 2 alumnus Jenette Goldstein; and Bill Paxton is the group's deadliest leather-clad ass kicker. Fellow traveler Jenny Wright lures Okie farm boy Adrian Pasdar into the group with a love bite, and he's soon turning toward vampirism with a combination of frightened revulsion and relentless desire. With Joshua Miller (River's Edge) as the youngest vampire, Near Dark is Bigelow's masterpiece of low-budget ingenuity--a truck-stop thriller that begins well, gets better and better (aided by a fine Tangerine Dream score), and goes out in a blaze of glory. --Jeff Shannon

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Now that thar's whut I call a REDNECK!.......2007-09-13

Love bites! Love bleeds!

Tell it to bored Okie farmboy Caleb (Adrian Pasdar): for him, it's the oldest story in the world & the one he's looking for on a Saturday night:

Boy meets Girl. Boy wins Girl. Boy takes Girl to tractor pull.

But he doesn't figure on the special sauce. Nobody does.

That little modification throws in some groovy new beats to the mix: Girl Bites Boy. Girl leaves godawful nasty hickey on Boy's neck.

And, about an hour later: Boy lurches over tobacco fields in the Lower 40 with a hankering for meat considerably rarer than ground round.

I think it was the old vampire fighter Professor Abraham Van Helsing who observed of his undead foes "the Dead travel fast".

That was 1897: he shoulda got a load of the white trash bloodsuckers in Kathryn Bigelow's riotous "Near Dark", where the Undead ditch their long-haired gypsy servants & wagons for some real horsepower, muscling up and sunlight-proofing a Winnebago and carrying out a rampage of cold-blooded (or warm-blooded, or blooded, anyway, which is the point) killing spree across the windswept badlands.

Director Kathryn Bigelow & screenwriter Eric Red beat Tarentino & Rodriguez to the pop culture punch by more than a decade in this blood-drenched fusion of Southwestern Vampires and the joys of the tri-state killing spree, done right & done hard: "Near Dark" is a nihilistic little cinematic IED of battery acid, Semtex charge, sweat, rage, sex & desperation, all wrapped up in spikes & roadworn leather.

Breaking up may be hard to do, but it's murder if your lovely young pallid drifter hottie-of-the-moment Mae (the ethereal Jenny Wright, who vies with the flick's Tangerine Dream soundtrack for most dreamy movie presence here) has a family with a real aversion to laying down stakes.

No, literally.

Anyway, Caleb flees from what he is becoming, the Family follows, & the Law hunts all of them.

"Near Dark" is a child of the Night, no doubt, but even more it's a child of the eighties, a country-cousin (the one who mainlines white-lightning) to blood-soaked eighties stalwarts like "The Hitcher" and "Lost Boys": the snarling white-trash bloodsucker of the film's windswept Oklahoma hellscape has more in common with the mass murderering duo of "Badlands" than with the mincing machinations of Underworld's Eurotrash vamps or castrati courtliness of a Lestat.

That's what's cooking in "Near Dark": the vamps here are monsters. They're scary. They're a little feral. They stink of Death & the weary, endless blacktop. The tragically hip vamp of modern cinema is a fashion victim too hip to kill, too busy trying to Emo you to death to ever get around to killing you.

Not so with the nosferatu from "Near Dark", who offer up a different breed of bat: they're hungry, for one. They dispense with the Bau Haus & haute couture in favor of razor blades and sawed off shotguns; they worry more about running blood and less about running black mascara.

Bigelow raided James Cameron's casting wardrobe for her crack cast, & here it pays off: Paxton, Henriksen, & Vasquez form up the old Aliens trifecta and cook up a little downhome bloodletting attitude.

Bigelow's underworld is an unforgettable nightland of all-night diners and truckstops and endless blacktop lit up by neon and arc-sodium and flickering, hissing fluorescent, where you look half dead even if you're still trucking around your 5 quarts of red slosh, baby.

There's something breathtaking about the way Bigelow squares and stages and fixes her action: the steady waltz of doom and sadness and savagery in the bar-scene to the strains of "the Cowboy Rides Away", for one, possibly the first time in history sheer infinite boredom caused a barfight, which midwifes a slaughter.

Or the Siege: the riveting syncopation of the blackpowder ballet as M16 bullets tear holes in walls of seedy motel flop where the vamps have holed up and dug in after their latest killing spree, death borne not of the bullets but the rents of sunlight they unleash on the room-temperature desperados.

"Near Dark" is as cool as the tailfin on a Shelby cobra, but it's not all empty style: there's an overarching sense of awe front and center, whether it's the stark & sere emptiness of its midwestern urban badlands, haunted by its own faded fallowness, or the hard-bitten ghoulishness of its monsters. It's the landscape, in fact, that becomes almost a central character here, spinning out its own calculus in crafting the food that drifts across this dusty backstage Night Land and the predators who hunt them.

There are vampires---& then there are vampires.

And the worst of them take more than your blood.

JSG

Gritty, Haunting & Eerily Sublime ..........2007-06-23

Near Dark is a vampire film with a look and feel unlike your typical fang-fest: daylight is harsh and painful, while the quicksand-lull of shadows by night are at once sharp and surreal, altering the landscape and ensnaring the viewer unawares.

Co-written by Eric Red (writer of the original "The Hitcher") and Kathryn Bigelow (director of "Strange Days"), this film is a taut, smart and surly Western Vampire flick that still stands up to - and surpasses - today's standards of chop and spray film-making (thank goodness). This was a film with a vision, evolving out of the mid-80s when film-makers were still taking chances and the genres of old were a-changing. These are no walking corpses in molding black capes, hiding in coffins and dodging wooden stakes. These vampires mean business and the landscape in which they travel is as cruel and as unrelenting and as personable as are they.

Charactor development, the look and feel of the piece, plot, and snappy dialogue are those things that matter in Near Dark. If you're going to make a horror film, by god, make the thing. And the cast/crew/creators of Near Dark did just that.

I was a pre-teen when I first saw Near Dark, back in the late 80s. No movie before or since has left me with such an eerie memory of intensity, pain, and ... strangely enough given the subject matter ... a giddy sort of hope. As a kid the infamous "bar scene" nearly did me in, and provided fodder for nightmares this fearless horror-film watcher didn't think were possible. For years, just remembering that scene, was enough to keep me passing it by in the rental aisles.

But, being the admirer I am of many of the central cast in Near Dark, I couldn't stay away for long, and so I rewatched it with adult eyes. It was even better than I'd remembered it. I'm not ashamed to say I had to buy my own copy, which I watch every couple of months.

There is the naive and flirtacious Caleb Colten, perfectly cast in Adrian Pasdar (who plays the polar opposite in the deliciously wicked "Jim Profit" in the tv show "Profit", also now available on dvd) who meets the at once simple

There vampire's.......2007-05-20

Only Calab doesn't know that. He is thinking with his heart, not his brain.

Be Bitter if this movie was before your time.......2007-05-02

Certain vampire movie franchises which I shall not name are as so many other media products all about selling lipstick and lisp in these shallow shallow days.

This movie has so much style and probably was made for very little money.

A Terribly Underated Vampire Film..........2007-01-26

I first watched this film when I was younger, but since then I have loved this film and consider it definitely one of those films that should be much more popular than they are. Most people I know don't even know it, although they claim they have a good knowledge of horror films. I always recommend it, but at least where I live the video stores don't even have it.

Anyway though this movie does go above so many other vampire films made today. It definitely gives its own unique view on vampires. I was a huge fan of Anne Rice's romantic, suffering vampires but watching this film where instead the vampires are dusty and completely cruel to their victims without any air of sophistication gave it a much more real and frightening view on such creatures.

The cast carry out their parts well, but its truly Paxton that steals the show. He is the most cruel of them all, and the loudest. Right away he just steals the show. The others kind of fade compared to him, but quiet Mae, the complete opposite of Severen, holds her own candle on the show. And yes, you do root for her and Caleb, who is roped into being a vampire thanks to her seduction.

A dark, harsh and powerful movie about vampires that matches to the maturity of Interview with the Vampire, yet with a complete new view on their lifestyle. I highly recommend it if you can find it.

4.5/5

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Kiddy Up
Glenn Ford 'Cowboy'
The simple life
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COWBOY-1958

Cowboy
Starring: Glenn Ford , Jack Lemmon , Anna Kashfi , Brian Donlevy , and Dick York
Director: Delmer Daves
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
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ASIN: B000063UQO
Release Date: 2002-05-14

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This sturdy Delmer Daves picture--his third with Glenn Ford, following Jubal and 3:10 to Yuma--is one of the most offbeat Westerns ever. And it must be the most writerly, with Frank Harris's memoirs as the source and a picaresque screenplay by Edmund H. North and Dalton Trumbo (a blacklistee, credited only posthumously). There's a pileup of oddities and complications at the outset, with Chicago hotel clerk Harris (Jack Lemmon) already in mid-romance with a daughter of the Mexican aristocracy (Anna Kashfi--Mrs. Marlon Brando at the time), and Texas cattleman Tom Reese (Ford) storming in to commandeer an entire floor of the hotel for him and his drovers so they can party till, well, the cows come home. Partying is curtailed when Reese loses big at cards; Harris bails him out with his savings, and Reese finds he's taken on not only an unwanted partner but a tenderfoot besides. Soon everyone is headed south.

Cowboy merits its bedrock title. This is a rare Western in which the job of breaking horses, trail herding, etc. figures as a dynamic aspect of the storytelling. The film also has a blunt and original way of looking at death, not as a genre convention but as something abrupt, ungainly, and often absurd, in both senses of the word. (This applies equally to men and cattle, by the way.) The camerawork is trim, angular, and somehow precarious, and the jagged editing hustles the very eventful proceedings to a close in barely an hour and a half. Saddle up. --Richard T. Jameson

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Kiddy Up.......2007-06-08

If you are looking for a good western to sink your teeth into, this one is it. Great acting from a young Jack Lemmon and Glen Ford. Wonderful scenery and good story plot. Not a big western fan but this one is great!

Glenn Ford 'Cowboy'.......2006-11-10

I bought this DVD in a fit of nostalgia, having seen it many years ago.
I like Glenn Ford's understated acting, and, of course, Jack Lemon was an excellent foil. Don't know how they filmed the scene where Ford 'ringed the bull', but it looked real enough to me.

The simple life.......2006-10-29

Hotel clerk Frank Harris (Jack Lemmon in color, aged 32) watches the bellboys give renowned cowboy Tom Reece (Glenn Ford at the height of his career) an enthusiastic reception. Ford is tired of cattle-driving and longs for a bath and Chicago's opera-program. He is also tired of steaks. Lemmon reluctantly prepares the best suite for the new arrival - it is already occupied by his sweetheart (Anna Kashfi, who married Marlon Brando) and her class-conscious father (who makes short work of ardent admirers who write love poems; the real Frank Harris was apparently a big Casanova). Ford, on the other hand, is treated with due respect and - love lends wings - Lemmon decides to retrain.

Visualize the scene: Ford in the bathtub, cigar in one hand, gun in another, whiskey-bottle within reach. Lemmon does not get the cork off - no, don't use your teeth - but declares solemnly: "I'm a farmer". Ford: "That's what I thought". Lemmon pleads his cause while bullets buzz around his head. He also insists that he loves horses...Luck is not on Ford's side during the card-game and he accepts Lemmon's savings - $3800 - merrily. The sight of his "new partner" boarding the Santa Fe trail has a sobering effect - but there's no way back: Lemmon quit his job...

Ford's entourage includes gunman Brian Donlevy ("I prefer cows to people") and a guy who claims that women like men who smell like a horse. The cowboy-outfit suits Lemmon. Ford cedes him a "gentle" horse. The day is long...the sunset is in Technicolor...riding hurts - some parts of the body (the scene where a cowboy rubs salt water and whiskey into Lemmon's sores is charming). Ford however knows no pity: he orders his partner to be on guard.

The nutrition is unbalanced - steaks - and the sight of an unsuspecting rattle-snake gives the bored cooks the idea to play the - equally unsuspecting - tenderfoot a trick. Lemmon escapes - just. Another man is bitten - and dies. Lemmon explodes when somebody steals the dead man's boots, but Ford is a tough customer: he orders his partner to dig the grave...

Things take a turn for the worse in Mexico when Lemmon finds Kashfi the victim of a forced marriage. The Fiesta is colorful, Lemmon even volunteers as bullfighter (tries to cut the husband down to size), but this time Ford (or rather: Ford's stuntman) takes his place. Ford's attempt to set himself up as romantic adviser is the last straw: If you ever felt the desire to see Ford thrash Lemmon with a poker and go for his throat over the fire-place - enjoy the moment; it won't recur.

It's raining. Ford feels guilty. And Lemmon has become very efficient: he saves a calf (market value: $4). When he tries to catch some lost cattle he attracts the attention of Comanches who plan to shoot him and make the cattle their own. Suddenly - and contrary to his convictions - Ford decides to give Lemmon's life priority over his livestock. He drives the herd through the valley - many extras bite the dust. Worse: Ford gets small thanks for it. He has a bullet in his leg and Lemmon takes over ("I'm your partner"). It is a reign of terror (and a rare and therefore precious moment in Lemmon's career). He orders his men about, announces gloatingly: "We just found MY cattle - yours are lost", no knifing, no suicide affects him...Ford is haunted by his apt pupil. Lemmon comes to his senses when Ford saves him from being crushed by bulls in the stock-car (Lemmon made this scene without double; probably the most dangerous stunt of his career).

COWBOY has always been very popular. Even the critics - Variety, Time, Newsweek - loved it. People who live in the country always enjoy the sight of awkward townspeople and show me the master who does not pull his apprentice's leg...What a brilliant (and sadly overlooked) comedian Ford was: TEAHOUSE, SHEEPMAN...Lemmon told his biographers (Widener, Baltake) blood-curling behind-the-scenes-stories ("I bled"). The bulls in the stock-car were apparently sedated, but not much. What a pity that he made so few films during the 1950s (Ford's fans are luckier). I have always had a soft spot for the films that "break" Lemmon's image, when he comes out of his shell and safeguards his own interests. The best appraisal of Lemmon's performance comes from Anna Kashfi: She worries about eavesdroppers. Lemmon: "I thought your aunt speaks only Spanish?". Kashfi: "That's right. But she can see the expression in your face - which everybody understands".

My review of this movie.......2006-02-25

I am a western movie fan and I really like Glenn Ford,s acting.

COWBOY-1958.......2005-03-10

Here the great GLENN FORD(Who also starred with Jack Lemmon's wife,Felicia Farr.in.."3:10 TO YUMA"..now gets to star with Jack Lemmon...who(A GREENHORN)comes off very good I feel.He has this beleive..living under the stars with cattle is like heaven in the open range.RICHARD JAECKEL..who is so good himself..never seems to age.He has always looked youthful,sorry to say..he's gone now,like JACK LEMMON.When an actor like Mr.Lemmon does a western..he really pulled it off.Here he is city-slicker..wanting to move cattle with Mr.Ford.And good old Glenn takes him up on offer,only because he lost money playing poker.It's a western that moves right along...actor,Dick York is very good in his role also.The only thing that kept me from giving it 5-stars is..the dvd...should have been in widescreen.Westerns are outdoor adventures..it needs the Scope of the west.Columbia is getting very cheap lately.All they had to do is give both versions.I seen his western on Turner classic and taped it.It was presented then..in WIDESCREEN.

King Boxer (aka 'Five Fingers Of Death')

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The influences this movie has... just call it the blueprint!
MASTER OF THE IRON FIST !!
A classic finally gets its due

King Boxer (aka 'Five Fingers Of Death')
Starring: Lo Lieh , and Tien Feng
Director: Cheng Chang Ho
Manufacturer: Weinstein Company
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ASIN: B000MM0LE6
Release Date: 2007-06-19

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Better known in the United States as Five Fingers of Death, this spectacular mix of martial arts action and Western-style melodrama from the legendary Shaw Brothers Studios helped to light the fuse for the kung fu movie explosion in the early '70s. Indonesian actor Lo Lieh is the young acolyte caught up in a struggle between rival martial arts schools; after one villainous outfit murders several of Lieh's classmates with the help of hired killers, he trains to develop the invincible "Iron Palm" technique and defeat the opposing school. Korean director Chang-hwa Jeong delivers stunning (and very violent) action set pieces (set to a dizzying array of American library music cues, most notably Quincy Jones' theme to Ironside) but also manages to create a compelling and dramatic sub-story about loyalty and honor. The result is a martial arts film that can be enjoyed by viewers who aren't fanatical about the genre and diehard kung fu heads alike. The widescreen DVD (which surpasses all previous VHS and DVD versions of the film) includes an interesting commentary track by Quentin Tarantino (who aided Dragon Dynasty in assembling its Shaw Brothers library) and critics Elvis Mitchell and David Chute, who discuss King Boxer's appeal and thematic similarities to Hollywood product; Chute is also featured with critic Andy Klein in one of three short supplements about the film's production and history, with director Jeong and martial arts choreographer Liu Chia-Liang taking center stage for the others. - Paul Gaita

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(Action) A young martial arts students quest to win a tournament despite numerous acts of sabotage by his rivals.

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The influences this movie has... just call it the blueprint!.......2007-09-05

Seeing this for the first time you may knock it for being fairly paint by numbers (train/tragedy/train harder/revenge/redemption)... problem is that this is one of the original paintings that the formula is based off! This is classic kung-fu action in the finest sense of the word. Lo Lieh as our heroic lead is great and shows flashes of Bruce Lee type charisma (but not nearly his furious fighting) and will have you rooting for him through every uphill battle he's in. Lots of cool characters and action scenes, including the 3 Japanese masters brought in to derail our hero (and bust his hands up real good!). The movie just oozes style and grittiness that in this new age of martial arts film we may never see again (Kill Bill excluded)... so sit back and enjoy it like the fine wine it is!

MASTER OF THE IRON FIST !!.......2007-07-03

Kudo's to the Weinstein Company for releasing this Kung Fu classic on DVD.The audio and video restoration that went into this DVD release is absolutely incredible and Martial Arts fans won't be disappointed."King Boxer" is presented in it's Widescreen format and enhanced for 16x9 television's.The films colors are incredibly sharp and vibrant and the mono sound is clear and crisp.The video transfer of "King Boxer" is the absolute best version I have ever seen and fans of the Kung Fu genre will be amazed by the quality of this release.Sound options include original Mandarin and English dubbed version and choice of subtitles.The special features are an added bonus,specially the Trailer Gallery.This movie has it all,non-stop action,fierce fighting and plenty of blood.Watch the magnificent Lo Lieh as he masters the Iron Fist technique and exacts his revenge."King Boxer" is five star entertainment at it's very best!!

A classic finally gets its due.......2007-06-19

King Boxer (aka Five Fingers of Death) came out in 1973 and is a classic example of a Shaw Brothers kung fu film - a genre they helped pioneer and perfect with this movie being one of the finest efforts from this time period. It also has the distinction of being the first kung fu film to be released in the United States, just ahead of Bruce Lee's equally influential Enter the Dragon. In the 1980s, it inspired filmmaker John Carpenter to make Big Trouble in Little China and more recently was a huge influence on Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill movies.

The filmmakers maintain just the right level of pacing with very short lulls between action sequences. Let's face it - we're not watching King Boxer for its thoughtful characterization. That is not to say that this film is not well made or doesn't take itself seriously because it does, but it is hardly Shakespeare either. Director Cheng Chang Ho employs sudden zoom in and outs and even the occasional freeze frame during many of the film's dynamic fight scenes. This is a beautifully shot movie with expert use of the 2.35:1 widescreen aspect ratio with superb compositions of every frame. The use of shadows for dramatic effect in one scene, and a brief fight that takes place at sunset that looks like something right out of 1950s Technicolor era, is part of the reason why this film is so revered among kung fu film fans.

King Boxer features betrayal, torture, revenge and even some heroic style redemption thrown in for good measure - all heightened to melodramatic levels making for a very entertaining ride. Our hero has to deal with a devastating injury and his own self-doubts before he can face the bad guys and use the Iron Palm technique to save the day. You soon find yourself rooting for Chi-Hao to win the competition and the cute woman he loves as well. Even though our hero triumphs at the end, it is a terrible cost with friends, family and his mentor dead or horribly maimed all because of a petty rivalry between two martial arts schools.

There is an audio commentary by filmmaker Quentin Tarantino and film critics Elvis Mitchell and David Chute. Love or hate Tarantino, the guy knows his film history, displaying an impressive encyclopedic knowledge of kung fu cinema. For example, he not only talks about how it was the first kung fu film released in America but then rattles off 5-6 other films that came after. This is a very entertaining, information-packed track by three guys who are fans of the film and display a genuine love for the genre. Highly recommended.

"Interview with Chang-Hwa Jeong." He talks about how he got involved with the film. Initially, he found the script to be "common" and studied Chinese history and literature in order to make improvements. He talks about some of the techniques he used to make the action sequences so exciting and visceral.

"Interview with action director Lau Kar Wing." Kar Wing was the kung fu director on the movie and speaks about how he approached the many fight scenes, including the challenge of matching the actor with their stunt double seamlessly.

"Interview with film critic/scholars David Chute and Andy Klein." Chute gives the film a historical context in terms of American cinema including its shocking level of violence at the time. They point out that the soundtrack was a pastiche of music ripped off of other film and that this would often hamper its distribution because of rights issues.

Also included are two trailers and alternate opening sequence that features very crude opening credits.

Finally, there is a "Stills Gallery" with poster and promotional photographs.

The Ultimate Roy Rogers Collection - King of the Cowboys

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ROY FANS - BEWARE OF THIS DVD SET
"King of the Cowboys ... Roy Rogers ... Ultimate Collection ... Passport Video"
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The Ultimate Roy Rogers Collection - King of the Cowboys
Starring: Roy Rogers , Dale Evans , and Gabby Hayes
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ASIN: B000MQ5552
Release Date: 2007-04-10

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Saddle up for this action-packed assortment of shoot-`em-ups and songs of the sagebrush starring Roy Rogers - the King of the Cowboys!! Here are 25 full-length western features` on 5 DVDs!

Catch Roy and the whole gang - George "Gabby" Hayes, Dale Evans, Smiley Burnette, and Trigger ("The Smartest Horse in the Movies"). Along the way, such favorites as John Carradine, Gale Storm, and Clayton Moore make appearances. Some titles appear on DVD for the first time!

Disc One

*WALL STREET COWBOY (1939) - Roy ventures to New York to try and raise money for the mortgage on his ranch - which happens to be sitting on top of a large deposit of a rare and valuable mineral! Gabby Hayes and Raymond Hatton (San Quentin) co-star and future star George Montgomery (Roxie Hart) is a cowhand.

THE ARIZONA KID (1939) - During the Civil War, Roy and Gabby become Confederate scouts to try and get rid of a vicious outlaw gang. Dorothy Sebastian - former wife of William "Hopalong Cassidy" Boyd - plays the girlfriend of the outlaws' leader (songwriter Stuart Hamblen).

DAYS OF JESSE JAMES (1939) - Roy goes undercover as a member of the James gang in order to get to the bottom of a series of bank robberies. Don "Red" Barry (The Purple Heart) plays Jesse James, while Glenn Strange (House of Frankenstein) is Cole Younger.

THE RANGER AND THE LADY (1940) - While Sam Houston (Davison Clark of Reap the Wild Wind) is in Washington, trying to get Texas admitted to the Union, Texas Ranger Roy must deal with Houston's scheming assistant (Henry Brandon from March of the Wooden Soldiers), who is unfairly taxing Texans.

WEST OF THE BADLANDS (1940) - In an unintentional foreshadowing of The Fugitive, Roy plays a young doctor on the run from the law, falsely accused of a horrible crime. Popular character actor Joe Sawyer (The Roaring Twenties) is the ruthless leader of an outlaw gang.

Disc Two

YOUNG BILL HICKOK (1940) - Roy in the title role as the legendary lawman, entrusted with guarding a shipment of gold. Along the way, he gets mixed up with Calamity Jane (Sally Payne, who played Belle Starr opposite Roy the following year in Robin Hood of the Pecos).

YOUNG BUFFALO BILL (1940) - Once again, Roy plays a real-life (though highly fictionalized) western legend. Here, he and Gabby fight off a band of Indians while trying to straighten out a Spanish land grant in New Mexico. Pauline Moore (Young Mr. Lincoln) is the lovely damsel in distress.

BAD MAN OF DEADWOOD (1941) - Roy and Gabby try to restore law and order to the town of Deadwood, which is currently in the evil clutches of a tough gang leader (Hal Taliaferro of Red River). Cinema veteran Monte Blue (Orphans of the Storm) plays the sheriff.

ROBIN HOOD OF THE PECOS (1941) - Roy is a former Confederate soldier who has become a sort of Western Robin Hood and winds up becoming sheriff as he battles corrupt carpetbaggers. Cyrus Kendall (Crime School) is the main bad guy.

SHERIFF OF TOMBSTONE (1941) - In a change of pace, Gabby plays a judge who helps Roy clear his name after being mistaken for a ruthless gunslinger. Addison Richards (Boys Town) is Tombstone's corrupt mayor.

Disc Three

*HEART OF THE GOLDEN WEST (1942) - Roy, Gabby, Frog Millhouse (Smiley Burnette) and the Sons of the Pioneers help a group of ranchers who are being unjustly taxed for transporting their cattle. To circumvent the tax, Roy convinces an old riverboat captain (Walter Catlett of Bringing Up Baby) to let the cows ride down the river.

KING OF THE COWBOYS (1943) - Roy goes undercover to stop a gang of saboteurs who have been blowing up government warehouses to aid the Axis powers during World War II. Russell Hicks (The Bank Dick) plays the governor of Texas and Peggy Moran (The Mummy's Hand) is the damsel in distress.

*SILVER SPURS (1943) - Roy comes to the aid of a young widow who is being swindled out of her ranch by an unscrupulous opportunist (John Carradine of The Grapes of Wrath). Jerome Cowan (The Maltese Falcon) also appears and Trigger really gets a chance to strut his stuff in this one.

THE YELLOW ROSE OF TEXAS (1944) - Roy goes undercover as an insurance investigator to solve a payroll robbery in this murder-mystery change-of-pace story. Dale Evans, in one of her first roles opposite Roy, plays the daughter of an escaped convict!

Disc Four

*HOME IN OKLAHOMA (1946) - Roy and Dale - in a sort of Western version of Tracy and Hepburn - are rival reporters trying to beat each other in getting the scoop on the murder of a millionaire rancher. Frank Reicher (Captain Englehorn in King Kong) appears as a lawyer.

MY PAL TRIGGER (1946) - Roy is unjustly blamed in the shooting death of Gabby's horse. Popular character actor Jack Holt (San Francisco) is the actual shooter. This film was reportedly a personal favorite of Roy's.

ROLL ON TEXAS MOON (1946) - Roy tries to stop a vicious range war between sheepherders and cattle ranchers that has been intentionally started by an unscrupulous businessman (Dennis Hoey, better known as Inspector Lestrade in the Sherlock Holmes series).

*APACHE ROSE (1947) - Roy is an oil prospector whose attempts to gain the drilling rights to a prize piece of land are thwarted by a gang of ruthless gamblers who operate from an offshore boat. George Meeker (The Roaring Twenties) leads the gambling gang.

THE BELLS OF SAN ANGELO (1947) - Roy is a border guard who suspects (correctly) that is smuggling silver out of a Mexican mine and "planting" it in his own worthless silver mine! John McGuire (Sands of Iwo Jima) is the culprit, and movie favorite Andy Devine (Stagecoach) plays the sheriff!

Disc Five

SPRINGTIME IN THE SIERRAS (1947) - Roy tries to stop a gang of poachers from killing deer in violation of local hunting regulations and winds up locking horns with the leader of the gang - who happens to be a very attractive woman (Stephanie Bachelor from Lady of Burlesque). Once again, Andy Devine plays the sheriff, and old timer Chester Conklin plays an Old Timer.

THE GAY RANCHERO (1948) - Sheriff Roy tries to stop a gang of crooks from taking over an airport by sabotaging the planes. Crooner Tito Guizar (Mexico's version of the singing cowboy) plays an ex-bullfighter who comes to America to find the girl of his dreams.

GRAND CANYON TRAIL (1948) - A gullible sheriff (Andy Devine again) is duped into investing in a worthless silver mine. Jane Frazee (Buck Privates) is the comic female foil, while Laurel and Hardy nemesis James Finlayson (Way Out West) plays another sheriff.

THE FAR FRONTIER (1948) - Where else can you see Roy Rogers, the Lone Ranger, Annie Oakley and Jingles Jones, all in one movie? That's because Clayton Moore (The Lone Ranger), Gail Davis (Annie Oakley), and Andy Devine (The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok) join Roy in this timely story about the smuggling of illegals from Mexico into the U.S.

UNDER CALIFORNIA SKIES (1948) - Roy plays singing-cowboy movie star "Roy Rogers" in this "backstage" story about the celebration of Roy's ten years in movies, spoiled by the sudden kidnapping of Trigger. Child star Michael Chapin (Call Northside 777) is caught up in the danger.

* First Time on DVD

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ROY FANS - BEWARE OF THIS DVD SET.......2007-08-06

I've been collecting western DVDs for quite some time. I picked this up with great interest as it contains some real rarities like APACHE ROSE and HEARTS OF THE GOLDEN WEST.

This collection contains some of the worst multigenerational "transfers" I have ever seen of largely public domain material. Many of the features are unwatchable and most of them seem to be missing their main title sequences! For example, both APACHE ROSE and the rare BELLS OF SAN ANGELO begin AFTER the credits, as the cast sings an opening song. The transfers, as I said, are unwatchable... you'd be far better suited to pick up the Platinum multi-feature Great American Western collections or the excellent quality 8 film DIAMOND DVD set. For that matter, the rare and out of print HAPPY TRAILS THEATER discs feature wraparounds with Dale and Roy and pretty good transfers. The Goodtimes Home Video versions are heavily edited for TV, averaging 45-48 minutes (edited down even from the original Hollywood Television Service TV prints from the 50s, which ran 53:30. I'd also recommend the first five (and very rare) Happy Trails Theater DVDs, on the "Hollywood's Attic" label, which contained complete and restored versions of BELLS OF SAN ANGELO, SUNSET SERENADE, SONG OF UTAH, SAGA OF DEATH VALLEY and SAN FERNANDO VALLEY. BELLS OF SAN ANGELO, in particular, is a great disc, running over 90 minutes and boasting William Witney guest hosting with Roy and Dale, lots of on-set stories and behind-the-scenes home movies of the film in production. But to recap, avoid THE ULTIMATE ROY ROGERS COLLECTION like the plague.

"King of the Cowboys ... Roy Rogers ... Ultimate Collection ... Passport Video".......2007-07-10

Koch and Passport Video presents "ULTIMATE ROY ROGERS COLLECTION", Roy and the gang saddle up for 25 good old-fashioned oaters in this five-disc collection --- definitive B-Westerns filmography of two American icons for more than sixty years of Roy Rogers and Dale Evans --- whose accounts of thrilling adventures of B-Western heroes during the Saturday matinees of yesteryear takes us back to our childhood, family and friends --- each film shows how Rogers and Evans displayed their Christian faith into their performances, each testifying the longevity of their careers, inclusive radio logs, discographics, filmographics and comicgraphics for historians, collectors and fans, this is a wish come true, reliving those wonderful years from the past through this ultimate collection.

Disc #1 -- The Ultimate Roy Rogers Collection King of the Cowboys
"WALL STREET COWBOY" (1939) - Joseph Kane (Director), Gabby Hayes and Raymond Hatton.
"THE ARIZONA KID" (1939) - Joseph Kane (Director), Gabby Hayes and George Montgomery
"DAYS OF JESSE JAMES" (1939) - Joseph Kane (Director), Gabby Hayes and Don "Red" Barry
"THE RANGER AND THE LADY" (1940) - Joseph Kane (Director), Gabby Hayes and Harry Woods
"WEST OF THE BADLANDS" (1940) - Joseph Kane (Director), Gabby Hayes and Joe Sawyer

Disc #2 -- The Ultimate Roy Rogers Collection King of the Cowboys
"YOUNG BILL HICKOK" (1940) - Joseph Kane (Director), Gabby Hayes, Jack Ingram and Iron Eyes Cody
"YOUNG BUFFALO BILL" (1940) - Joseph Kane (Director), Gabby Hayes and Chief Thundercloud
"BAD MAN OF DEADWOOD" (1941) - Joseph Kane (Director), Gabby Hayes and Henry Brandon
"ROBIN OOD OF THE PECOS" (1941) - Joseph Kane (Director), Gabby Hayes and Marjorie Reynolds
"SHERIFF OF TOMBSTONE" (1941) - Joseph Kane (Director), Gabby Hayes and Harry Woods

Disc #3 -- The Ultimate Roy Rogers Collection King of the Cowboys
"SUNSET SERENADE" (1942) - Joseph Kane (Director), Gabby Hayes, Bob Nolan and Roy Barcroft
"HEART OF THE GOLDEN WEST" (1942) - Joseph Kane (Director), Gabby Hayes, Smiley Burnette and Bob Nolan
"KING OF THE COWBOYS" (1943) - Joseph Kane (Director), Smiley Burnette, Bob Nolan and Gerald Mohr
"SILVER SPURS" (1943) - Joseph Kane (Director), Smiley Burnette, Bob Nolan and John Carradine
"THE YELLOW ROSE OF TEXAS" (1944) - Joseph Kane (Director), Dale Evans, Bob Nolan and Grant Withers

Disc #4 -- The Ultimate Roy Rogers Collection King of the Cowboys
"HOME IN OKLAHOMA" (1946) - William Witney (Director), Gabby Hayes, Dale Evans and Bob Nolan
"MY PAL TRIGGER" (1946) - Frank McDonald (Director), Gabby Hayes, Dale Evans, Bob Nolan and Jack Holt
"ROLL ON TEXAS MOON" (1946) - William Witney (Director), Gabby Hayes, Dale Evans and Bob Nolan
"APACHE ROSE" (1947) - William Witney (Director), Dale Evans, LeRoy Mason, Terry Frost and Bob Nolan
"THE BELLS OF SAN ANGELO" (1947) - William Witney (Director), Dale Evans, Andy Devine and Bob Nolan

Disc #5 -- The Ultimate Roy Rogers Collection King of the Cowboys
"SPRINGTIME IN THE SIERRAS" (1947) - William Witney (Director), Andy Devine, Bob Nolan and Roy Barcroft
"THE GAY RANCHERO" (1948) - William Witney (Director), Andy Devine, Bob Nolan and LeRoy Mason
"GRAND CANYON TRAIL" (1948) - William Witney (Director), Andy Devine, Robert Livingston and Roy Barcroft
"THE FAR FRONTIER" (1948) - William Witney (Director), Andy Devine, Clayton Moore, Gail Davis and Roy Barcroft
"UNDER CALIFORNIA SKIES" (1948) - William Witney (Director), Andy Devine and Bob Nolan

BIOS:
1. Roy Rogers (aka: Leonard Franklin Slye)
Birth Date: 11/05/1911 - Cincinnati, Ohio
Died: 7/06/1998 - Apple Valley, California

2. Dale Evans (aka: Frances Octavia Smith)
Birth Date: 10/31/1912 - Uvalde, Texas
Died: 2/07/2001 - Apple Valley, California

3. George "Gabby" Hayes (aka: George Francis Hayes)
Birth Date: 5/07/1885 - Wellsville, New York
Died: 2/09/1969 - Burbank, CA

Roy was a top box office draw for Republic Pictures...when you went to see him on the big screen, you got exactly what the marquee said...plenty of thrills, action and hard riding with a song or two thrown in for good measure...Roy was a member of several music groups named the Hollywood Hillbillies, Rocky Mountaineers, Texas Outlaws, and his own group, the International Cowboys...then came 1934 he formed a group with Bob Nolan and Tim Spencer called the 'Sons of the Pioneers'...he was known as Leonard Slye, then Dick Weston, and finally Roy Rogers...in 1937 Roy went solo and made his first starring film in "Under Western Stars" (1938), featuring Smiley Burnette (Gene Autry's old sidekick), Earle Dwire, Jack Rockwell, Earle Hodgins, Jack Ingram and of course Trigger the smartest horse in the movies...Roy appeared in almost 100 films...then came television with "The Roy Rogers Show"(1951) ran on CBS television network from October 1951 through September 1964.

Hats off and thanks to Les Adams (collector/guideslines for character identification), Chuck Anderson (Webmaster: The Old Corral/B-Westerns.Com), Boyd Magers (Western Clippings), Bobby J. Copeland (author of "Trail Talk"), Rhonda Lemons (Empire Publishing Inc), Bob Nareau (author of "The Real Bob Steele") and Trevor Scott (Down Under Com) as they have rekindled my interest once again for Film Noir, B-Westerns and Serials --- looking forward to more high quality releases from the vintage serial era of the '20s, '30s & '40s and B-Westerns ... order your copy now from Amazon where there are plenty of copies available on VHS, stay tuned once again for top notch action mixed with deadly adventure --- if you enjoyed this title, why not check out Passport Entertainment --- all my heroes have been cowboys!

Total Time: 5 DVD Set ~ Passport Video ~ (4/10/2007)

good deal.......2007-04-20

The transfer is clean so far.watched 6 movies.
My complain is that the films are not full copies. They are around 50 minutes each.The music is missing.Hey what do you want for 15$

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Now that thar's whut I call a REDNECK!
Gritty, Haunting & Eerily Sublime ...
There vampire's
Be Bitter if this movie was before your time
A Terribly Underated Vampire Film...

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Now that thar's whut I call a REDNECK!.......2007-09-13

Gritty, Haunting & Eerily Sublime ..........2007-06-23

There vampire's.......2007-05-20

Only Calab doesn't know that. He is thinking with his heart, not his brain.

Be Bitter if this movie was before your time.......2007-05-02

A Terribly Underated Vampire Film..........2007-01-26

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A mighty satisfactory entertaining Western...

Man Without a Star

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Brand new, factory sealed in shrink wrap, DVD manufactured in Hong Kong. This DVD is produced only in Asia. Chinese subtitles can be turned off. On screen menus are in English and Chinese and are easy to use. Directed by King Vidor, "Man Without A Star"(1955) is a Western lover's Western. Kirk Douglas stars, as a drifter with no particular star to follow. He moseys into town, after saving the life of a young cow-poke wannabe, and we are treated to his fun side and lots of smiles as he whoops it up with saloon gal-pal Claire Trevor. After landing a job on the biggest spread around,10,000 head to be exact, he discovers his boss, a tough beauty from the East(Jeanne Crain), will be adding another 5,000 head of cattle to her ranch and plans to ignore the friendly understanding the ranchers have. After all it's "open range" and she's entitled to use whatever she wants. The lady boss, is quite smitten with our guy Kirk, and he must decide between the land-grubbin beauty or barbed wire..which is the lesser of the two evils? Kirk is wonderful in this role. His charm keeps you both smiling, and rooting for the good guys, throughout the film. He's funny but also tough and heroic as he goes up against the likes of some bad hombres, headed up by Richard Boone, who is always so good at being so bad. Claire Trevor adds her charms and William Campbell is fun as Kirk's new sidekick.Also look for Jay C. Flippen in a great role as foreman. The photography is wonderful in technicolor, and the songs(Frankie Laine on vocals), have the perfect Western feel about them.

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A mighty satisfactory entertaining Western..........2006-11-08

Kirk Douglas is perfectly cast as Dempsey Rae, the happy wanderer cowboy, expert in guns and horses... Rae rides the open range of the Old West with an eye for the ladies and a fancy way with six-shooters...

The theme of the film is the gradual disappearance of freedom as the Wild West settles down to business and puts up barbed wire to mark the lines of investment... Dempsey Rae is a happy wanderer, content to move further and further west to escape the fences... He meets up with a naive farm-boy "Texas" (William Campbell) who yearns to be a man of action and almost as inept... In Dempsey "Texas" finds the right tutor...

The two team up and get themselves a job working for a beautiful ranch owner, Reed Bowman (Jeanne Crain), who turns out to be as unscrupulous as she is attractive... Reed is a 'cattle queen' who rides down the fences of her neighbors carrying the action to its absolute limit in order to prosper and make money...

Dempsey is happy to work for the lady for $30 a month and even happier to make love to her but he draws the line at laying his life for her in range wars... He quits the crooked beauty and drifts into the nearby town, to renew his acquaintance with Idonee (Claire Trevor), a madam with the proverbial heart of gold...

The likable Dempsey is rocked out of his contentment by his successor at the Bowment Ranch, a brute named Steve Miles (Richard Boone) who feels he has to defeat every man in sight, especially when motivated by his glamorous boss...

"Man Without a Star" is a mighty satisfactory entertaining Western, once its premise is established... William Campbell helps Douglas make it so... The two performances are sympathetic, with Campbell looking to Douglas for leadership...

Douglas comes out as a likable star when he announces his presence by throwing his 'good looking' saddle on a window; he is graceful when he combs his hair with water from a goldfish bowl; and he is charming when he plays the banjo and sings a gaily ballad called: "And the Moon Grew Brighter and Brighter."

Jack Elam is cast as the leering, treacherous gunslinger trying to knife Douglas...

Director King Vidor had long established his ability with action sequences and pictorial scope in films like "Northwest Passage," and "Duel in the Sun," and "Man Without a Star" has a full measure of Vidor directed bar room fights, stampedes and chases...

With a lot of color, humor and action Vidor's motion picture is a traditional cattle range movie distinguished by its sheer energy and forceful visual style... The film traces some sex interest between Douglas and Crain, centering on a bathtub 'inside' the house...

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This is the story of one of the greatest bull riders of all time - a young man determined since the wide-eyed age of 4 to become world champion. Three times Justin McBride pursued the PBR World Championship gold buckle... and failed. Critics questioned whether he would ever be able to win the big one. But McBride bucked all the critics with his remarkable perseverance and willingness to do whatever it takes. In 2005, giving one of the most exciting 75-point rides in PBR history, McBride at last claimed the cherished top prize, revealing not only great physical skill, but the true heart of a champion.

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King of the Preteens
Cleburn's Revenge
King of the Pecos
"The Duke" is King...Of The Pecos....
Simple Days

King of the Pecos
Starring: John Wayne , Muriel Evans , Cy Kendall , Jack Clifford , and Arthur Aylesworth
Director: Joseph Kane
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Release Date: 2001-10-23

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Texas in the 1870's is an open range, and an evil cattle baron has claimed most of it for himself. Nothing stands in this man's path. A rancher either leaves the land…or dies. In one case, the son of a murdered couple escapes. Years later, that boy returns as a young lawyer (John Wayne) with a six-shooter and a deadly aim. His challenge to the cattle baron can only end with one man standing, and the other dead.

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King of the Preteens.......2006-09-10

I'm a big fan of John Wayne. Even in my youthful liberal days, I always stood up for him whenever my friends on the left would disparage him and his acting. "Forget his politics" I would say, "He's an outstanding actor!" The comment that "He always played the same role" led me to observe, over the years, that this discription would apply to 90% of all screen actors. The idea that a strong, forceful man of principle is the discription of a character role just doesn't register. The main problem with the career of John Wayne was that he made numerous poor decisions in the movies he chose to make. However, that is a flaw of his years of stardom. He made a lot of clunkers before he ever became a star but that was his role in hollywood; the Saturday matinee cowboy hero.

I have seen a number of Wayne's pre-"Stagecoach" movies and I decided to jot a review of "King of the Pecos" because it struck me as one of the better movies Wayne made during this period. It has an interesting beginning; a ruthless man and his entourage stake out a terriotory of their own in Texas. In the process his henchman kills a settler and his wife but leaves the young boy. Well, guess who comes back incognito as an adult. Some of the action is fairly decent and the role that Wayne plays is a bit more complex in this movie (he has a law degree as well as the ability to shoot the eyes out of a snake). The other characters are somewhat less developed but there are a couple of comic sidekicks that fit the role adequately. There are issues with this movie as there are with all the pre-stardom movies that were made on the cheap. Things don't always make sense. For example what happens to his horse during one of the big shootouts, how can you rely on white armbands while riding miles on a dusty trail, and what's the big deal with the safe and the salamander nickname? However, for a low budget movie probably made in a week's time, "King of the Pecos" isn't too bad (but, let's face it, none of these movies rate a **** or a *****).

Cleburn's Revenge.......2005-03-15

John Cleburn and his family were hard working settlers with legal right to prime western property. They happened to be on the property that the thieving Alexander Stiles set his sights upon. When Cleburn did not agree to sell his property, Stiles and his evil cronies just killed Cleburn and his wife and beat their son, leaving him for dead. But, he did not die, and you can imagine that John Jr. grew up with revenge in his eyes. He became a lawyer and a gunman. With those two talents, he eventually manages to ruin the evil Stiles Empire. John Wayne was the only one in the film with much acting ability. His two sidekicks are somewhat funny. As usual, there is a wedding at the end and JW is in it. This is a good film for all to see. Get your kids into the old Wayne films. They are clean and wholesome good fun.

King of the Pecos.......2005-03-04

I am a John Wayne fan with over 70 of his movies. I agree with the other reviews of the plot of the movie. It is top of the line of John Wayne's grade B Republic movies. The DVD has been fixed & the sound & picture are better than I expected. I especially enjoyed the ending since I am slightly hard of hearing.

"The Duke" is King...Of The Pecos...........2004-02-19

This review refers to the Artisan DVD of "King Of The Pecos"(John Wayne Collection)...

Alexander Stiles is a land grubbing, cattle rustling,water hording, lily livered murderin' thief. Nobody and nothin' will get in the way of the empire he is building for himself in Old New Mexico. He even goes as far as to have a hard working husband and wife shot down in cold blood in front of their own child. BIG mistake...little did Stiles realize then that this little kid would grow up to be The Duke..John Wayne!

Yesiree Bob..little John Clayborn comes back to town all grown up and with a law degree to boot. Now known as John Clay he's on a mission to help the townspeople that have all been swindled by the evil Stiles. The long arm of the law is no match for Stiles' murderin' ways though, and lucky for us, The Duke not only has a law degree but is a crack shot with a six-shooter as well! So let the range wars begin! Who will be the last man standing?...well..You know....

At just under an hour,"King Of The Pecos" is the kind of great old fashioned shoot-em-up that all the newer westerns pay homage to. Wayne is marvelous as the ultimate good guy who comes riding in on his white horse to save the day..and you know..where our guy is concerned there is even a little romance as well!

Wonderfully directed by Joseph Kane("Flame of the Barbary Coast"), with some fabulous black and white western cinematography, the film also stars Muriel Evans, Cy Kendall and Jack Clifford.

A great big nod to Artsian, for giving us a beautiful transfer of the 1936 film. The picture in the original full screen is clear and crisp. The sound is remasterd in DD2.0(mono). The dialouge is clear and distinct, as is all the wonderful sounds of the horses and gunfire. I am truly impressed by how good it looks and sounds.

Five stars for being a wonderful piece of cinematic history to add to your John Wayne collection!

Saddle up and enjoy....Laurie

Simple Days.......2002-01-31

This is a simple good and bad guy movie. John Wayne is the only one on a white horse. He fights evil and wins the heart of the pretty girl. His friends are of the best caliber and stick by him no matter what. I liked it because it reminds me when good always won and life was simple.

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GOOD OLE BOY'S
About Time!!!

Sam Whiskey
Starring: Burt Reynolds , Clint Walker , Ossie Davis , William Schallert , and Woodrow Parfrey
Director: Arnold Laven
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Release Date: 2005-05-17

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Welcome to America's Wildand very wackyWest! Burt Reynolds, Clint Walker, Ossie Davis and Angie Dickinson star in this tongue-in-cheek tale of love, lust and larceny that's brimming with "real charm" and "sharp wit" (Boxoffice). Thanks to ingenious plot twists, hilarious blunders and delightful chemistry, Sam Whiskey is a comely caper full of mischief and mayhem that is altogether intoxicating. Even crooks have standardsand keeping the loot is usually one of them. But when cowboy con artist Sam Whiskey (Reynolds) falls head over spurs for a sexy widow (Dickinson), he finds himself compromising a lot more than his principles. After she seduces him into helpingher break into the US Mintto return a fortune in stolen goldSam begins to suspect that honesty might have some very ample rewards.

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GOOD OLE BOY'S.......2007-09-03

BURT IS IN HIS TYPICAL GOOD WORKING PART. HE PICKS GOOD STORIES TO
ACT IN. AS USUAL.

About Time!!!.......2005-08-18

This is one of Burt Reynold's "over-looked" movies. Fantastic movie! Check it out.

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