The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean

Manufacturer: Warner Home Video Brand: Warner Manufacturing

Sam Peckinpah's light-hearted, rambunctious ode to the dying Wild West, with Jason Robards as a rascally prospector who transforms a desert water-hole into big business. Year: 1970 Director: Sam Peckinpah Starring: Jason Robards, Stella Stevens, David Warner What does it tell us that Sam Peckinpah's most joyous and life-affirming movie is also his most underappreciated? The Ballad of Cable Hogue was made in that singular moment when, having just completed The Wild Bunch, Peckinpah knew he was back in the game as a feature-film director; and before anyone (including Peckinpah himself?) had an inkling of how completely he was about to redefine the Western genre, contemporary American filmmaking, and his own personal legend. Cable Hogue is a splendiferous entertainment: a grufty Western tall tale, a lusty comedy, and also (in critic Kathleen Murphy's phrase) "a musical about the economic and emotional complexities of capitalism." Its title character--Jason Robards in a great, exuberant gift of a performance--is an ornery varmint left by two scurrilous partners (L.Q. Jones and Strother Martin) to die in the desert. Through pure cussedness and what may be dumb luck, may be divine intervention, he "finds water where it wasn't" and survives. Nothing to do now but settle back, let his waterhole--the only one on the stage line between Deaddog and Gila--make him a rich man, and await the day those two old partners drop by his waystation. Besides such Peckinpah regulars as Slim Pickens,...

Manufacturer: Kino Lorber Brand: KINO INTERNATIONAL

Screen legends Lee Marvin (Prime Cut), Jack Palance (Ten Seconds to Hell) and Jeanne Moreau (Viva Maria!) star in this gripping saga that covers the tumultuous final days of the Old West. Facing a changing landscape where barbed wire and railways replace the freedom of the open range, Monte Walsh (Marvin) and his fellow cowboys consider new work opportunities, toy with the idea of "settling down," and draw their pistols for one last showdown. Forty years after its original theatrical debut, the unbridled spirit of the American frontier rides again. Cinematographer William A. Fraker (A Reflection of Fear) wonderfully directs this realistic western featuring a stellar supporting cast that includes Mitchell Ryan, Jim Davis, G.D. Spradlin, Michael Conrad and Bo Hopkins. Special Features: Original Theatrical Trailer

Manufacturer: Paramount Brand: PARAMOUNT - UNI DIST CORP Model: 14968924

An aging cowboy loses his partner, his girlfriend and his place in the changing Old West. Westerns circa 1970 were mostly about the end of the West, and Monte Walsh is smack-dab in the middle of that melancholy moment. Lee Marvin and Jack Palance play middle-aged cowboys whose wandering ways are getting hemmed in by corporations, fences, and their own aging muscles. Not only is the boss man (grizzled veteran Jim Davis) laying off his longtime ranch hands, he doesn't even own the ranch himself anymore. The movie that emerges from this weary milieu is a curious, meandering artifact: the shapeless early going consists of fairly broad slapstick scenes of cowhand tomfoolery, and comes around--almost reluctantly, you sense--to a conventional frontier-justice story in its final half-hour. The movie's got Marvin's unimpeachable presence, a nice understated turn from Palance, and the welcome novelty of Jeanne Moreau playing Marvin's prostitute galfriend. Monte Walsh is one of the few films directed by the esteemed cinematographer William A. Fraker, and it might serve as a model for why more cinematographers aren't directors: it looks great, but the internal rhythm feels off, the tone is variable, and scenes tend to play more like set pieces than essential parts of a whole. Granted, many of those set pieces are pretty tasty: Marvin and Moreau have a couple of touching scenes together, and there's a strikingly strange sequence with Marvin trying to break a particularly feisty horse in t...

Manufacturer: Universal Studios Home Entertainment Brand: Universal Model: 4936248

The girl they called "Winnipeg's Sweetheart," Deanna Durbin, captured the hearts of movie fans everywhere with her irresistible charm and golden voice. From her debut in 1939 to the release of her last film in 1944, Deanna was an international superstar and box-office sensation. Then at the height of her fame, she walked away from Hollywood forever. Now her movie magic lives on in this special 6-film set, Deanna Durbin Sweetheart Pack. This rare treasure includes some of her best-loved films, including the Academy Award nominated Three Smart Girls; First Love, a modern riff on the classic Cinderella story; It Started with Eve, a tender-hearted musical farce; Lady on a Train, a crazy who-done-it; and Can't Help Singing, the film that takes Deanna out to the Old West in search of romance and adventure. All the music, romance and laughter is yours to own in the collection that's a treat for movie lovers and a must own for fans of one of Hollywood's most cherished legends.

Manufacturer: Paramount Brand: Paramount Home Video Model: 4986039

Starring karate champion, Chuck Norris, WALKER, TEXAS RANGER centers around Cordell Walker, a contemporary Texas Ranger who is old-fashioned in his method of dealing with criminals, which entails using a lot of force. Joined by his partner, Jimmy Trivette, Walker does not shy away from his "eye for an eye" approach to law enforcement. In the world of Walker, Texas Ranger, there's no problem that can't be solved with a big truck, a few roundhouse kicks, and the unflappable-bordering-on-comatose cool of martial-arts-champion-turned-B-movie-star Chuck Norris (Good Guys Wear Black, Forced Vengeance). As Texas Ranger Cordell "Cord" Walker, Norris helmed this fusion of karate chops and cowboy hats for nine seasons; for some reason, the last season is being released on DVD before any of the earlier ones. By this point, the show's formula--non-stop action and high drama with no concern for common sense or coherent storytelling--has been honed to a science. No opportunity for peril is overlooked, particularly when it affords Walker a heroic moment. In the season's first episode, firemen recoil from a burning building, but Walker strides in without a word (and without any of that cumbersome protective gear) to rescue a cute boy and his loyal dog. This is refined cheese: Bad guys wear evil on their sleeves and criminal masterminds act like morons whenever it's convenient to conclude the episode. Norris wisely keeps his dialogue to a minimum, usually curt commands to his multi-ethnic...

Manufacturer: Timeless Media Group

Saddle up and ride back to the days when the land was untamed and the West was still wild with The Big Valley The Final Season, the television Western classic starring Barbara Stanwyck, Lee Majors, and Linda Evans. Victoria Barkley (Stanwyck) is the matriarch of one of the most powerful families in 1870s California, controlling cattle herds, gold mines, citrus groves, and logging camps. Along with her close-knit brood, Victoria must persevere though the trials and tribulations of the Old West. Share the drama and adventure with the Barkley's in all twenty-six Season Four episodes of this beloved saga! Color

Manufacturer: Mill Creek Entertainment Brand: DIGITAL1STOP Model: 4986815

Journey back to those days long ago where the West was as wild as the characters that starred in these 50 classic films!You'll thrill to these tales filled with ranchers, homesteaders, rustlers, renegades, stage line drivers and lawmen sworn to uphold justice. Watch the excitement of shootouts, cattle stampedes and stage coach robberies that delighted audiences of yesteryear and now return on DVD to entertain other generations.See classic Western stars like John Wayne, Roy Rogers, Gene Autry, Tex Ritter, Gabby Hayes, Johnny Mack Brown, Bob Steele, Kermit Maynard, Hoot Gibson and the Range Busters (Crash Corrigan, Dusty King & Alibi Terhune) ride the plains and deserts of the Old West in search of adventure.Includes:The Apache Kid s Escape Bells of San Fernando Below the Border Between Men Buckskin Frontier Call of the Forest Cavalcade of the West Clearing the Range Colorado Sundown The Cowboy Millionaire Coyote Trails The Dawn Rider Death Rides the Range Fast Bullets Feud of the Range Forbidden Trails Frontier Justice Frontier Scout Git Along Little Dogies The Hard Hombre High Lonesome The Kid s Last Ride King of the Cowboys The Laramie Kid The Lone Ranger Man from Texas Mystery Ranch The Naked Hills Neath the Arizona Skies New Mexico The Range Busters Red River Valley Renegade Girl Riders of the Sage Ridin Down the Canyon Roamin Wild Roarin Guns Roaring Six Guns Santa Fe Bound Southward Ho Take Me Back to Oklahoma Thunder River Feud The Trail Beyond Trail of the Hawk Traili...