DVD : Stranger On Horseback
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Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0089859057823
Format: Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Original recording remastered, Restored, Widescreen
Label: VCI Entertainment
Manufacturer: VCI Entertainment
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: VCI Entertainment
Region Code: 1
Release Date: September 16, 2008
Running Time: 66 minutes
Sales Rank: 11114
Studio: VCI Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: 1955
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Joel McCrea brings law and order to the range in Stranger on Horseback . McCrea portrays a circuit judge Richard Thorne, who comes to a small western town in the course of making his rounds. There he finds the town and surrounding area under the feudal thumb of an oldline family headed by Josiah Bannerman (John McIntire). Despite wholehearted opposition and obstacles, Thorne fingers Bannerman s spoiled son, Tom (Kevin McCarthy) for murder and smokes out the necessary frightened witnesses and defies the whole clan by seeing that justice is done. In doing so he even wins the grudging respect of the old cattle baron, gains the love of the latter s strong-willed niece, Amy (Miroslava Stern), and awakens the sheriff (Emile Meyer) to a new sense of duty. Bonus Features: Scene Selection, Trailers, Radio Hour: Radio Shows: Tales of Texas Rangers, Audio biographies by Joel Blumberg, Original Theatrical Trailer, Adlets: Lonesome Trail DF, Tall Texan, Western Noir DF, Great Jesse James Raid & Other Legendary Outlaws Product Specs: DVD9; Dolby Digital; 66 minutes; Color; 1.85:1 Aspect Ratio; MPAA NR; Year 1955; SRP - $14.99
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Admittedly, I am not a Joel McCrea fan by any means. I do snap up any films based on stories from Louie Lamour and this film was classic Lamour. Joel McCrea did a good job with his character and that says a lot when you consider that I have never been a fan of this particular actor. John Carradine was fantastic as always and much younger in this film.
The quality of this DVD was poor. The original film negative was lost at some point in time and this DVD was produced off a copy of a film that survived. Dispite being "remastered" there are fluctuations in color and film quality from scene to scene with a heavy emphasis on the red hues which I found to be distracting.
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Thank you to company to release this rare western. The quality is ok, a few parts show to be aged , but overall good. The movie itself reads straight from the Louis Lamour story. Recommend to see at least once.
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It's great to see a western star like Joel McCrea.This was a real treat.It's one of his movies I never seen.Your fast service was great.Great dvd. Most kind to deal with you.....AGAIN. JACK RENKERT
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VCI Entertainment presents "STRANGER ON HORSEBACK" (23 March 1955) (55 mins/Color) (Dolby digitally remastered) -- Joel McCrea was an American film actor.who became interested in films after graduating from Pomona College --- He worked as an extra in films from 1927 before being cast in a major role in "THE JAZZ AGE" (1929) --- A contract with MGM followed, and then another with RKO--- He established himself as a handsome leading man who was considered versatile enough to star in both dramas and comedies.
In the 1930s, McCrea starred in two large-scale westerns, "WELLS FARGO" (1937) with wife-to-be Francis Dee and Cecil B. DeMille's "UNION PACIFIC" (1939) with Barbara Stanwyck --- He reached the peak of his early career in the early 1940s, in such films as Alfred Hitchcock's "FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT" (1940) and two by Preston Sturges, "SULLIVAN'S TRAVELS" (1941), and "THE PALM BEACH STORY" (1942).
McCrea also starred in two William A. Wellman westerns, "THE GREAT MAN'S LADY" (1942), again with Stanwyck, and "BUFFALO BILL", with character actor Edgar Buchanan (1944) --- After the success of "THE VIRGINIAN" (1946), McCrea made westerns exclusively for the rest of his career--with the exception of the British-made "ROUGH SHOOT" (1953) --- In 1959, Joel McCrea and his son Jody McCrea starred in the NBC-TV series WICHITA TOWN", which lasted one season and was produced by the Mirisch Corp --- 1962 saw him united with fellow veteran of westerns Randolph Scott ... Read More
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After 1945, Joel McCrea, like his friend and contemporary "cowboy" Randy Scott, acted almost exclusively in Westerns. Several of those he made for Universal stand out---CATTLE DRIVE, SADDlE TRAMP, and BORDER RIVER, in particular. But he also made THE OUTRIDERS (MGM), WICHITA (Allied Artists), and several others of very good quality [let's hope these get released on silver disc soon!]. STRANGER ON HORSEBACK is one of McCrea's best, perhaps his best outing between CATTLE DRIVE and RIDE THE HIGH COUNTRY. His taciturn but entirely engaging manner is on full display. Add to this good casting of John McIntyre, Kevin McCarthy, and others, and you have the makings of a fine oater. Thanks to VCI for releasing this little gem! Let's hope more McCrea will follow...what about it Universal? And WICHITA certainly merits release, as well.
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Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0089859057823
Format: Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Original recording remastered, Restored, Widescreen
Label: VCI Entertainment
Manufacturer: VCI Entertainment
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: VCI Entertainment
Region Code: 1
Release Date: September 16, 2008
Running Time: 66 minutes
Sales Rank: 11114
Studio: VCI Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: 1955
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