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![How The West Was Won [DVD] [1963]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51XPBxXU4eL._SL160_.jpg "How The West Was Won [DVD] [1963]")
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Rated: Parental Guidance
Staring:
Carroll Baker,
James Stewart,
Eli Wallach,
John Wayne,
Richard Widmark
Director:
Henry Hathaway, John Ford, George Marshall
 film, 2009-09-23
This is a brilliant DVD which has the film updated and the deletion of the lines that used to show on the original copies and film that was shot in the 3 camera use of CINERAMA...the background of the film is also great but if you have Blue ray that version is better still as it shows the films in its original semi circular screen showing.....
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![John Wayne - Triple - The Alamo / Red River / Horse Soldiers [DVD]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51QbumcD5dL._SL160_.jpg "John Wayne - Triple - The Alamo / Red River / Horse Soldiers [DVD]")
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Rated: Parental Guidance
Staring:
John Wayne,
Joanne Dru,
Harry Carey,
John Ireland,
William Holden
Director:
John Wayne, Howard Hawks, John Ford
great value for western fans,, 2010-01-08
What a package treat for western fans, & all three films have the legend that is John Wayne in them, the original Alamo was always going to be the best version up against the later version.
The Horse Soldiers covers a troop of Union soldiers in the American Civil War, great story. Red River is in black & white but with a host of old classic "cowboys" with a Chisholm trail cattle drive. All in all a great package with the shortage of new Westerns being made this is a must for Cowboy films as they should be.
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![The Searchers [Blu-ray] [1956]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51cUh2PcMDL._SL160_.jpg "The Searchers [Blu-ray] [1956]")
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Rated: Parental Guidance
Staring:
John Wayne,
Natalie Wood,
Jeffrey Hunter
Director:
John Ford
One of the best westerns ever, 2009-03-21
Hi.
Not only what I'd said above. The restoration on this film give an amazing visual experience. Despite how many times you'd watching it. It seems you do it for the first time...The history is amazing too. Better the original tittle than spanish "Centauros del desierto" (???).
Even if you got it yet on DVD, you must buy it on Blu-Ray.
Best regards.
Francisco.
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![John Ford Collection - The Grapes Of Wrath/How Green Was My Valley/The Horse Soldiers/My Darling Clementine [DVD]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51hys4Q%2BtKL._SL160_.jpg "John Ford Collection - The Grapes Of Wrath/How Green Was My Valley/The Horse Soldiers/My Darling Clementine [DVD]")
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Rated: Parental Guidance
Staring:
Henry Fonda,
Linda Darnell,
Victor Mature,
John Wayne,
John Carradine
Director:
John Ford
The Grapes of Wrath - John Ford's memorable screen version of John Steinbeck's epic novel of the Great Depression--often regarded as the director's best film--stars Henry Fonda as Tom Joad. After having served a brief prison sentence for manslaughter, Joad arrives at his family's Oklahoma farm only to find it abandoned. Muley (John Qualen), a neighbour now nearly mad with grief, tells Tom of the drought that has transformed the farmland of Oklahoma into a desert and of the preying land agents who have ploughed under the shacks of the sharecroppers. Joined by former hellfire preacher Casy (John Carradine), Tom finds his extended family packing their ramshackle truck to seek work in the fields of California. Among the talented cast, Fonda does perhaps the best work of his career, as does Qualen in the film's most haunting sequence. In a stirring film that stands as a microcosm of the depression experience of millions, Ford gives poverty a human face in a way that was rare then and even rarer in the decades to follow as Hollywood films with a sense of class consciousness dwindled like a species nearing extinction. In John Ford's How Green Was My Valley, Huw Morgan, now a middle-aged man leaving the mining town of Cwm Rhondda, recalls the events that most impressed themselves upon his younger self (Roddy McDowall). Still too young to work in the local coal mine like his father, Gwilym (Donald Crisp), and his five older brothers, he senses the seriousness of an imminent strike by the rift it creates between his father and the other boys. Richard Llewellyn's nostalgic novel, with its Fordian themes of family and community, could hardly have found a better director. While the acting and writing are excellent, this is truly Ford's film, one in which his brilliantly chosen groupings and compositions are the most expressive elements. Possibly the most moving film of Ford's career, How Green Was My Valley received five Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Director. The Horse Soldiers - This latter-day sort-of Western from John Ford--falling midway between The Searchers and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance--is a crisp re-telling of a true-life episode from the Civil War. In 1863 a Union colonel named Grierson (Marlowe in the film, and John Wayne by any name) led his cavalry several hundred miles behind Confederate lines to cut the railroad between Newton Station and soon-to-be-embattled Vicksburg. There's a certain amount of bombast in the running arguments about wartime ethics between Marlowe and the new regimental surgeon (William Holden), who don't take to each other at all. But Ford more than makes up for it with such tasty scenes as an encounter with a couple of redneck Rebel deserters (Denver Pyle and Strother Martin), an ethereal swamp crossing led by a cornpone deacon (Hank Worden), and above all the famous skirmish with a hillside full of grade-school cadets from a venerable military academy. The film ends rather abruptly because Ford abandoned a climactic battle scene--the veteran stunt man and bit player Fred Kennedy having been killed in a horse fall. --Richard T. Jameson My Darling Clementine - In another of his classic Westerns, John Ford again reflects upon the advance of civilisation on the receding frontier, recounting the events leading up to and including the legendary gunfight at the O.K. Corral. As they drive their cattle toward California, Wyatt Earp (Henry Fonda) and his brothers, Morgan (Ward Bond), Virgil (Tim Holt), and young James (Don Garner), stop outside Tombstone, Arizona, where they refuse an offer for their stock made by Old Man Clanton (Walter Brennan) and his son, Ike (Grant Withers). The three older brothers ride into town, and, after Wyatt subdues a drunk, return to the wagons to find James dead and their cattle stolen. With little doubt about who the perpetrators are, Wyatt decides to accept the offer to be marshal of Tombstone that he had just recently refused. Although ostensibly focused on the famed gunfight, My Darling Clementine's more concerned like many of Ford's films with the creation of a community, the rule of law, and the civilising influence of women on the wild and woolly West. When the showdown finally comes, it's without blood lust, as the Earp brothers conduct themselves with the ritual solemnity of samurai warriors. Fonda gives a subtle, brilliantly understated performance in the lead role, establishing a naturalist motif that is picked up and furthered by Joseph MacDonald's magnificent, barely lit shots of Ford's beloved Monument Valley.
John Ford Collection, 2009-07-01
John Ford did a directors classic with these four classics. The Films are all good
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![How Green Was My Valley [DVD] [1941]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51C50ARQ4PL._SL160_.jpg "How Green Was My Valley [DVD] [1941]")
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Rated: Universal, suitable for all
Staring:
Walter Pidgeon,
Maureen O'Hara,
Roddy McDowall,
Donald Crisp,
Sara Allgood
Director:
John Ford
John Ford's beautiful, heartfelt drama about a close-knit family of Welsh coal miners is one of the greatest films of Hollywood's golden age--a gentle masterpiece that beat Citizen Kane in the Best Picture race for the 1941 Academy Awards. The picture also won Oscars for Best Director (Ford), Best Supporting Actor (Donald Crisp), Best Art Direction, and Best Cinematography; all of those awards were richly deserved, even if they came at the expense of Kane and Orson Welles. Based on the novel by Richard Llewellyn, the film focuses its eventful story on 10-year-old Huw (Roddy McDowall), youngest of seven children to Mr. and Mrs. Morgan (Donald Crisp, Sarah Allgood), a hardy couple who've seen the best and worst of times in their South Wales mining town. They're facing one of the worst times as Mr. Morgan refuses to join a miners union whose members have begun a long-term strike. Family tensions grow and Huw must learn many of life's harsher lessons under the tutelage of the local preacher (Walter Pidgeon), who has fallen in love with Huw's sister (Maureen O'Hara). As various crises are confronted and devastating losses endured, How Green Was My Valley unfolds as a rich, moving portrait of family strength and integrity. It's also a nod to a simpler, more innocent time--and to the preciousness of memory and the inevitable passage from youth to adulthood. An all-time classic, not to be missed. --Jeff Shannon
How green was my valley, 2009-05-11
It doesn't matter if you compare it with the book or if you just see it as a movie of many, the film is truly great!
Enus Elias, Greece
How Green Was My Valley [DVD] [1941]
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![John Wayne - John Ford Collection - Stagecoach/Fort Apache/She Wore A Yellow Ribbon/Rio Grande/The Quiet Man [DVD]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51AXh3yfIFL._SL160_.jpg "John Wayne - John Ford Collection - Stagecoach/Fort Apache/She Wore A Yellow Ribbon/Rio Grande/The Quiet Man [DVD]")
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Rated: Parental Guidance
Staring:
John Wayne
Director:
John Ford
Great buy!, 2010-01-27
Bought for my hubby who is a big John Wayne fan. Has a number of JW titles already so dont want to duplicate. Great Buy at Great Price.
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![The Grapes Of Wrath [DVD] [1940]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51QKVRRATEL._SL160_.jpg "The Grapes Of Wrath [DVD] [1940]")
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Rated: Parental Guidance
Staring:
Henry Fonda,
John Carradine,
Jane Darwell
Director:
John Ford
The Grapes of Wrath, 2009-09-12
This is a film that is worth watching many times, The acting is excellent and so is the storey. Don't make them like this today.
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![How The West Was Won [Blu-ray] [1963]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51nNgodQAPL._SL160_.jpg "How The West Was Won [Blu-ray] [1963]")
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Rated: Parental Guidance
Staring:
Carroll Baker,
James Stewart,
Eli Wallach,
John Wayne,
Richard Widmark
Director:
Henry Hathaway, John Ford, George Marshall
- Carroll Baker, James Stewart, Eli Wallach, John Wayne, Richard Widmark- Directors: Henry Hathaway, John Ford, George Marshall
What a difference to the standard DVD!, 2010-03-24
If you put up with watching this film on the standard DVD, you will not believe the MASSIVE change to the movie on this Blu-ray disk. No lines splitting the screen/ fresh, vibrant colours and clarity/ great sound. The two choices of "on screen" presentations of watching the film comes down to a personal choice. However, both are worth exploring. They truly don't make films like this any more and from that point of view alone, it's worth having. And the price is superb! Recommended.
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![The Quiet Man (John Wayne) [DVD] [1952]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51PpY0gMQwL._SL160_.jpg "The Quiet Man (John Wayne) [DVD] [1952]")
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Rated: Universal, suitable for all
Staring:
John Wayne,
Maureen O'Hara,
Victor McLaglen,
Barry Fitzgerald,
Ward Bond
Director:
John Ford
Blarney and bliss, mixed in equal proportions. John Wayne plays an American boxer who returns to the Emerald Isle, his native land. What he finds there is a fiery prospective spouse (Maureen O'Hara) and a country greener than any Ireland seen before or since--it's no surprise The Quiet Man won an Oscar for cinematography. It also won an Oscar for John Ford's direction, his fourth such award. The film was a deeply personal project for Ford (whose birth name was Sean Aloysius O'Fearna), and he lavished all of his affection for the Irish landscape and Irish people on this film. He also stages perhaps the greatest donnybrook in the history of movies, an epic fistfight between Wayne and the truculent Victor McLaglen--that's Ford's brother, Francis, as the elderly man on his deathbed who miraculously revives when he hears word of the dustup. Barry Fitzgerald, the original Irish elf, gets the movie's biggest laugh when he walks into the newlyweds' bedroom the morning after their wedding and spots a broken bed. The look on his face says everything. The Quiet Man isn't the real Ireland but as a delicious never-never land of Ford's imagination, it will do very nicely. --Robert Horton
Romance, Comedy and Cinema's Greatest Ever Fist Fight., 2009-11-02
The Quiet Man may be pure hokum and set in an Irish idyll that never existed but it is also pure magic. A great romantic comedy with the best fist fight in the history of cinema. John Wayne returns to Ireland from America and falls in love with Maureen O'Hara, and who would not? Wayne's path to true love is however blocked by O'Hara's brother, Red Will played by Victor MacClaggen. The local priest (Ward Bond) and the matchmaker (Barry FitzGerald) plot to get the two married and that is when the real trouble starts. This film must have more great quotes that any other:
'He will regret it till his dying day, if he lives that long'; Red Will.
'When I drink whisky, I drink whisky and when I drink water I drink water'; Barry FitzGerald
'Buttermilk, the Borgas would have done better' Barry FitzGerald
'See here Yank I'll count to three and if your not out the house I'll set the dogs on ya' Red Will. 'You say three mister and you will never hear the man say ten,' Wayne, and not least.
'When the Reverend Mr Playfair, good man that he is comes past, I want youse all to chear that Protestants' Ward Bond as the Catholic Priest trying to save the job of the Church of Ireland vicar by passing his Catholic parishers of as Protestants.
The Quiet Man will never win any prize for social realism or for having a great message, but it should win one for giving people a couple of hours of pure pleasure and enjoyment. It you do not like this film then you are taking life far to seriously.
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![The Searchers [1956] [DVD]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51DGQ2A67EL._SL160_.jpg "The Searchers [1956] [DVD]")
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Rated: Universal, suitable for all
Staring:
John Wayne,
Jeffrey Hunter,
Vera Miles,
Natalie Wood,
Ward Bond
Director:
John Ford
A favourite film of some of the world's greatest filmmakers, including Martin Scorsese and Steven Spielberg, John Ford's The Searchers has earned its place in the legacy of great American films for a variety of reasons. Perhaps most notably, it's the definitive role for John Wayne as an icon of the classic Western--the hero (or antihero) who must stand alone according to the unwritten code of The West. The story takes place in Texas in 1868; Wayne plays Ethan Edwards, a Confederate veteran who visits his brother and sister-in-law at their ranch and is horrified when they are killed by marauding Comanches. Ethan's search for a surviving niece (played by young Natalie Wood) becomes an all-consuming obsession. With the help of a family friend (Jeffrey Hunter) who is himself part-Cherokee, Ethan hits the trail on a five-year quest for revenge. At the peak of his masterful talent, director Ford crafts this classic tale as an embittered examination of racism and blind hatred, provoking Wayne to give one of the best performances of his career. As with many of Ford's classic Westerns, The Searchers must contend with revisionism in its stereotypical treatment of "savage" Native Americans, and the film's visual beauty (the final shot is one of the great images in all of Western culture) is compromised by some uneven performances and stilted dialogue. Still, this is undeniably one of the greatest Westerns ever made. --Jeff Shannon, Amazon.com
Why not use a real Comanche, 2010-01-19
One of my favourite films. I have to limit myself to one viewing per year.
However, one thing aggravates me each time I watch. Why cast a scent advert
hunk as the Comanche chief Scar?
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