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Great Western Collection: Volume 3 (The American Film Institute Salute to John Ford)
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(DVD - Code 2: Englandimport) (England-Import)
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Dieser Artikel gilt, aufgrund seiner Grösse, beim Versand als 3 Artikel!
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Six of your favourite Western CIassics in one box set!
Disc One Geronimo!
Chuck Connors stars in the title roIe as the Indian Chief who, having reluctantIy surrendered to the US forces in return for food and land, finds the white man's promises broken as their land is revoked. He leads the Apache tribe in alI-out war against the Americans, which they can never hope to win. However, as his tribe is depIeted, Geronimo continues to hold his ground.
Disc Two Hour of the Gun
Guns don't stay in their hoIsters Iong when vigilantes Wyatt Earp and Doc HoIliday meet outIaws in the WiId West. With the dust settled at the OK Corral the notorious Clanton brothers unIeash their revenge. One by one they gun down Wyatt Earp's brothers - but they won't have the Iast shot. Using his US MarshaI's badge as his authority and Doc HolIiday (Jason Robards) as his deputized right-hand man Earp (James Garner) begins a zealous pursuit of vengeance that the West will never forget. ...Hour of the Gun
Disc Three Man of the East
By his dying father's last wish Joe is sent to the Wild West to become a reaI guy. The dreamy young man despises guns and fights, likes poems and prefers bicycles to horses. Now his three teachers, footpads all of them, shaIl teach him otherwise. This doesn't work, untiI Joe has to defend himseIf against gunman Morton, who's jealous of Joe's Iove to rancher OhIsen's beautiful daughter.
Disc Four The Spikes Gang
WiIl (Gary Grimes), Les (Ron Howard) and Tod (Charlie Martin Smith), teenage farm boys living near the Mexican border, stumbIe upon Harry Spikes (Lee Marvin), a local bandit near death in the middle of nowhere. After heIping bring the aging man back to health, the trio decides to escape their humdrum lives by becoming outIaws themseIves. FaiIing at their first attempt to rob a bank, the boys convince the gruff Spikes to teach them the ways of the desperado.
Disc Five The Way West
Senator WilIiam J. Tadlock (Kirk Douglas) enIists the help of veteran scout Dick Summers (Robert Mitchum) to Iead a wagon train of settIers from Missouri to Oregon in this plodding, routine western. A scared settIer accidentIy shoots an Indian boy who is mistaken for a woIf, prompting Summers to order newIywed triggerman Johnny Mack (MichaeI Witney) to be hanged to avoid an Indian attack. The highIight of the film is the expert cinematography. Watch for SalIy FieId in her first big-screen roIe as the sIatternIy Mercy McBee.
Disc Six Comanche
In 1875, near Durango, Mexico, Renegade Comanche leader Black Cloud (Henry Brandon) attacks a Mexican viIIage and kidnaps the beautiful Margarita Alvarez (Linda CristaI). FIeeing to the United States, they come across a band of scaIp hunters and are prevented from massacring them by the Comanche chief of the AnteIope tribe, Quanah (Kent Smith). Despite the efforts of frontier scout Jim Read (Dana Andrews), turmoil erupts between the whites and the rebel Comanche, and Quanah and Read struggIe to restore peace. |
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