Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1 Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Binding: DVD Brand: Fox EAN: 0024543512585 Format: Box set, Black & White, Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Widescreen, NTSC Label: 20th Century Fox Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox Number Of Items: 3 Publisher: 20th Century Fox Region Code: 1 Release Date: May 13, 2008 Running Time: 272 minutes Sales Rank: 3623 Studio: 20th Century Fox
A trio of terrific westerns
Nowadays, the Western is almost a dead genre, a far cry from the days in which it dominated the movies. Of course, even in its heyday, it had various stages. Earlier Westerns tended to focus on adventure, with cowboys and Indians and bank robbers. Around the 1950s, a new subgenre began to appear, the so-called Adult Western. These Westerns tended to focus more on character and less on action. The Fox Western Classics features three such movies.
The Gunfighter is considered to be one of the first Adult Westerns, with Gregory Peck has the title character. He is a man considered the best gunfighter of his era, a title that he is forced to defend. He takes refuge in the town of Cayenne, where an old friend is marshal and his ... Read More
The Western Classic
Love it. Have also shared with professor who teaches The Western here at the college where I work.
Among the Best in Black And White.
If you've never seen "The Gunfighter," you've never seen the best western ever. I believe it to be a really good movie to show to young men, just so they know. These movies are more than simple westerns.
3 worthwhile movies; package could be better
This set includes two terrific movies, Henry King's THE GUNFIGHTER with Gregory Peck and Henry Hathaway's RAWHIDE with Tyrone Power and Susan Hayward. The third film, Hathaway's GARDEN OF EVIL with Hayward and Gary Cooper, is much the least of the lot, but at least it has beautiful CinemaScope cinematography that the disc captures very well. It's also regrettable that GARDEN is the only one of the three with a commentary track, doubly so in that the three commentators discuss nothing but Bernard Herrmann's musical score -- a subject in which fans of westerns, Cooper, Hayward or Hathaway will have no interest whatsoever.
On the plus side, as noted, the other two films are terrific, with one of Peck's best-ever performances in THE ... Read More
2-1/2 Great Westerns
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood: From the Secret Files of Harry Pennypacker
Cheyenne Warrior: The Original Screenplay with Author Commentary
Shadow Watcher
Nobody Drowns in Mineral Lake
Fox has released a terrific 3-disc box set, THE WESTERN CLASSICS, in which we're finally getting a DVD version of one of the most revered westerns ever produced, THE GUNFIGHTER (1950) starring Gregory Peck.
Directed by Henry King in glorious black-and-white, THE GUNFIGHTER is almost a Shakespearean tragedy, and is considered to be the first adult western, predating better known films like HIGH NOON and SHANE.
Peck plays Jimmy Ringo, a notorious gunfighter who would like to bury his reputation, but is forced ... Read More
