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Upcoming Horse Movies On Dvd
Topic Started: Apr 30 2008, 06:49 AM (540 Views)
Laughing Gravy
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Warners gives us, on August 26, the Errol Flynn Western Collection (SRP $50)

Montana (1950, with Alexis Smith) includes a catroon, Joe McDoakes short, trailers, and the "Santa Fe Trail" series western shorts Oklahoma Outlaws, Wagon Wheels West and Gun to Gun.

Rocky Mountain (1950, with Slim Pickens) includes cartoon, McDoakes, newsreel, and the western shorts Roaring Guns, Wells Fargo Days and Trial by Trigger.

San Antonio (1945, with Miss Smith again) has the shorts Story of a Dog, Frontier Days and Peeks at Hollywood, plus two cartoons and trailers.

Virginia City (1940, with Humphrey Bogart, directed by Michael Curtiz) includes the shorts The Light Brigade Rides Again, Cinderella’s Feller and The Flag of Humanity, plus two cartoons and trailers.

Want more? That same day, Warners gives us (well, sells us) the Western Classics Collection, Vol. 1, for $60 the set or $13 each (the Flynn films aren't available outside the box). The only extras are trailers.

Escape from Fort Bravo (1954) with William Holden, directed by John Sturges
Many Rivers to Cross (1955) with Robert Taylor
The Law and Jake Wade (1958) with Robert Taylor; Sturges directed
Saddle the Wind (1958) with Robert Taylor again. Written by Rod Serling
Cimarron (1960) with Glenn Ford, directed by Anthony Mann
The Stalking Moon (1968) with Gregory Peck and Eva Marie Saint
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Serling once remarked of Saddle the Wind (1958): "I gave better dialogue to the horses."

Has anyone viewed Virginia City (1940)? It's one of the few Bogart films I've not seen.
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So many DVDs...so little time...
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Somehow I can't picture Bogie in cowboy boots and a Stetson.
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I’ve never seen a good review of Virginia City, but I always thought it was very entertaining. Unfortunately I can’t recommend it if you’re just going in for Bogie’s performance. He plays a Mexican bandito and, ah…, he is not entirely convincing. Of course, Bogie was also a western heavy in The Oklahoma Kid, but in that one he just played himself.

The positives are a great Max Steiner score, a number of memorable set pieces that Warners recycled over the years, and Errol at his most appealing.

The trailer is on The Sea Hawk disc if you want a taste.

(A recent Warner DVD included the trailer for Sante Fe Trail, so I was hoping this would also be in the set, but I guess not.)
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I saw The Oklahoma Kid many, many moons ago when I was toiling at Ball...er, Blockbuster Video...the old Key videocassette version. Can't for the life of me figure out why that one hasn't achieved DVD status yet.

I'll keep an eye out for Virginia City, though I'll probably end up renting it as I've made a vow to curtail my DVD purchases severely. Besides, the cable system in the city I'm moving to next week offers TCM and I don't have to "upgrade" to get it.
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Also coming from Warners on August 26, How the West Was Won.

You'll have your cherce between a 2-disc Special Edition (SRP $20.97) or a 2-disc Ultimate Collector's Edition DVD (SRP $59.92) that includes a reproduction of the original press book, photo and artwork cards, and a poster offer.

Both versions feature "the original 165-minute film, mastered from the original 3-strip Cinerama elements, presented in the original 2.89:1 aspect ratio with Dolby Digital 5.1 audio".

Incidentally, on that same day Warners will release a blu-ray version, which will feature something they're calling "Smile Box: "which presents the image with a unique curvature that virtually recreates the true Cinerama® experience in a home theater."
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Supposedly they have fixed the "seam problem" with these DVDs. For any of you unlucky enough (IMO) to have seen a Cinerama film you will know what I mean. Basically, the technology of the time could not get the images from the three projectors to line up just right which, combined with the light falloff at the edges of each projectors light field, led to an ugly and constantly shifting up and down slightly seam between each of the three parts of the Cinerama image. I think this is one of the reasons that Cinerama failed. It was really distracting.
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