|
| Fox Western Classics (Rawhide / The Gunfighter / Garden of Evil) | 
 enlarge | Directors: Henry Hathaway, Henry King
Actors: Gregory Peck, Tyrone Power, Gary Cooper
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Category: DVD
List Price: $19.98
Buy New: $9.67
You Save: $10.31 (52%)
New (47) Used (8) from $7.73
Avg. Customer Rating:  26 reviews
Sales Rank: 4801
Format: Box Set, Black & White, Color, Dvd-video, Full Screen, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Number Of Items: 3
Running Time: 272
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.5 x 1
MPN: FOXD2251258D
UPC: 024543512585
EAN: 0024543512585
ASIN: B0014BQR1A
Release Date: May 13, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: Why buy used when BRAND NEW is this LOW! Sealed! Expedited orders shipped on or before next business day!
|
| Customer Reviews:
 A fantastic bargain for three great westerns! April 8, 2008
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
All three of these westerns are superb. The Gunfighter is perhaps one of Gregory Peck's best films, before he became maudlin and uninteresting, before To Kill A Mockingbird. But compare this Gunfighter film with The Bravados, e.g.)
The Garden of Evil has sweep and color and a use of CinemaScope never seen in westerns, until The Tall Men. The Bernard Hermann score is riveting, and Susan Hayward..tremendous, as are Richard Widmark and Gary Cooper.Widmark is always great, and underrated. He was the glory of westerns.
Rawhide has Tyrone Power and Susan Hayward trapped by killers at a stagecoach station. The insanity of both Hugh Marlowe (underrated) and Jack Elam makes it look as though the whole world is in chaos, light years away from unity or peace. Tyrone Power, always stupendous, and Susan Hayward, adjetives cannot describe, respond to this wave of evil with fear and trembling, and finally...
Get this set and play it for years.
a top rate collection presented with top rate features etc... May 27, 2008
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
These are three terrific 50's Westerns starring and directed by some of the greats of all time! The restorations are fabulous and the bonus featurettes are also absolutely tasty and informative...this is a ridiculous bargain at this price...for any ONE of the movies much less all three. If you are a fan of westerns or these actors..buy with confidence the prints are stunning and as I said...these are good movies to boot!
"Fox Western Classics" delivers a real bargain June 28, 2008
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Fox Western Classics offer three major, but rarely televised, westerns from the early 1950s. A real treat, and the best of the three in my opinion, is the "Garden of Evil". This is a really fun adventure/western that has Gary Cooper offering lines like "let's ride!" and this retort to Susan Hayward's comment about Richard Widmark staying behind to take on the Indians alone; "Somebody always stays and get's it done." I am not a Cooper fan but after seeing him in this film, I better understand his appeal. The source material for the disc is excellent and the widescreen color presentation of some very exotic Mexican locales is worth the price of the dvd. This film also has a musical score by Bernard Herrmann.
"Rawhide", directed by Henry Hathaway (as was Garden of Evil)features Tyrone Power and, again, Susan Hayward in a black and white western that is also quite well done. The dvd presentation is excellent.
Gregory Peck "stretches" as an actor by playing a semi-bad guy (complete with a villian's mustache) in "The Gunfighter". Another good western character study and another excellent dvd presentation.
All three films are major "A" budget projects from the 50s that are not often seen anywhere, not at revivals, not on television, and, not to my recollection on VHS tape.
A real bargain for anyone looking for a quality western dvd package.
TRIPLE FEATURE......... June 7, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Triple feature of 3 enjoyable movies from the long ago days when Hollywood knew how to make a decent western, which today is pretty much a lost art.
Received my copy from Amazon a short while ago, noticed our local library also has their copy. Not a bad movie in the bunch, however, I believe my favorite is RAWHIDE. And it has been a movie very difficult to find.
Won't waste many more words: I watch westerns and read western books, so if you have any interest in the fictional west, do not, I stress, DO NOT pass up these 3 movies at this bargain price.
Best in watching, pards.
Semper Fi.
 Fox Western Classics July 24, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I am not going to go into the details on these movies as they have already been well reviewed by Joe Doherty. I just wanted to say all three movies are good with some of the best actors of this period. Having enjoyed Westerns for some time, growing up in the 50's and 60s it was a Smorgasbord at the movies and on TV. Today the Westerns are few and far between and even on cable TV there are only a couple of networks that televise them. Any fan of this genre should definitely add this three movie set to their Western collection. This set can't be found just anywhere, and not even Netflix rents these movies. This set would be a good deal at $19.99 and it was a bargain at $14.99. I highly recommend this set at Amazon for the amazing steal of $10.99, and you won't find it cheaper if you can even find it. If you have Prime Shipping you get them in a couple days and you're in for some great entertainment. Great quaility DVDS with good replayability. If you enjoyed these catch "Stalking Moon" and "Cimarron". - C. Luster
|
|
|
Powered by Associate-O-Matic
| |
