![]() While packages like this tend to lead to some duplication in your DVD/Blu-Ray collection, they offer up some really good stuff. It’s been on my Want List for quite some time.Īlso in the set are Jacques Tourneur’s Canyon Passage (1946), George Sherman’s Comanche Territory (1950), Douglas Sirk’s Taza, Son Of Cochise (1954), Smoke Signal (1955), Lonely Are The Brave (1962) and The Ride To Hangman’s Tree (1967). Jesse Hibbs’s Rails Into Laramie (1954) is a cool, sadly under-seen 50s Western with a really terrific cast. There are two Audie Murphy pictures, Jesse Hibbs’s Ride Clear Of Diablo (1954) and Gunpoint (1966). Universal’s German “branch” has announced an upcoming nine-movie Blu-Ray set featuring a good, but somewhat random, selection of Westerns - many available on Blu-Ray for the first time. Starring John Payne, Mari Blanchard, Dan Duryea, Joyce Mackenzie, Barton MacLane, James Griffith, Lee Van Cleef, Myron Healey ( Destry should be widescreen.) They’ll look wonderful on Blu-Ray. Of course, Mari Blanchard looks terrific.Īll three of these pictures boast the usual U-I 50s Western Technicolor sheen. (There was a semi-remake in 1950, Frenchie, with Joel McCrea, Shelley Winters and Marie Windsor.) In this one, it’s good to see Murphy play against type a bit, and it’s always great to see Wallace Ford. Starring Audie Murphy, Mari Blanchard, Lyle Bettger, Thomas Mitchell, Edgar Buchanan, Lori Nelson, Wallace Fordįor this 1954 remake, U-I puts Murphy and Mari Blanchard in the roles played by James Stewart and Marlene Dietrich in 1939’s Destry Rides Again. ![]() Yet another solid Western from Ray Enright, with typically-gorgeous cinematography from Irving Glassberg. U-I mangles history again, but who cares? Murphy is Jesse James, Brian Donlevy is Quantrill. Starring Audie Murphy, Brian Donlevy, Marguerite Chapman, Scott Brady, Tony Curtis, Richard Arlen, Richard Long Some really nice horse stuff (some of it lifted from 1949’s Red Canyon) and a great cast of character actors. Wanda Hendrix and Audie Murphy were newlyweds when production began on this one. A chance meeting with Wanda Hendrix brings civilization to their doorstep, where it’s not welcome. Stanford JolleyĪudie and his dad, Dean Jagger, have been hiding in the mountain for years. Starring Wanda Hendrix, Audie Murphy, Burl Ives, Dean Jagger, Tony Curtis, James Arness, Jack Ingram, Houseley Stevenson, I. This set includes Sierra (1950), Kansas Raiders (1950) and Destry (1954). Kino Lorber’s second hi-def batch of Audie Murphy Westerns is coming in June. The chance to see these pictures again, certain to look terrific, is a real treat. By the way, Murphy was furious when he learned this would be shot in B&W, but it works well. Springsteen and shot in black and white by Ellis W. Stir in some bonds and Kathleen Crowley and things get pretty tense. Stone (around the neck!) when they make their escape. Jones, Strother Martin, Dabbs GreerĪudie is shackled to killer Harold J. Starring Audie Murphy, Kathleen Crowley, Charles Drake, Harold J. Herbert Coleman was an assistant director for Hitchcock and others. He assembles a rather worthless posse and goes after them. Starring Audie Murphy, John Saxon, Zohra Lampert, Vic Morrow, Robert Keith, Rodolfo Acosta, Royal DanoĪudie rides into town right after four escaped convicts have shot the marshal and taken a woman hostage. A cast that includes John Qualen and Bob Steele - what’s not to like? I’m really excited to be doing a commentary for this one. A marshal (Stephen McNally) knows Audie’s innocent, but wants the reward and the glory. Starring Audie Murphy, Felicia Farr, Stephen McNally, Robert Middleton, Jan Merlin, John Qualen, Bob Steele, Allan LaneĪudie’s mistaken for a murderer. They’ve been given a bad rap over the years. This third volume in Kino Lorber’s Audie Murphy series gives us three of the seven pictures he did with producer Gordon Kay for Universal International - each shot in less than three weeks for about half a million bucks.
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