Features three John Wayne classics 'Blue Steel' 'Winds of the Wasteland' and 'The Trail Beyond'.
Winds Of The Wasteland: The boss of a stagecoach company competes for government contracts in the days of the Pony Express. His Private Secretary: Dick Wallace a millionaire's son tends to chase rather dubious women causing his father to despair of him. When he really falls in love his father assumes the girl is a gold digger...
Pony contractors Blair (Wayne) and Adams (Chandler) compete with rivals for government work...
Titles Comprise: 1. Stolen Goods 2. Goldstrike River 3. An Innocent Man 4. Cold Vengeance 5. Guns Along The Trail 6. Stagecoach Run
Born Marion Morrison in 1907 John Wayne would become one of the greatest and most enduring screen legends in the history of cinema. It was in these early westerns that he developed his famous screen image. When director John Ford spotted this emerging talent and cast him as the Ringo Kid in 'Stagecoach' 'The Duke's' future was sealed. Rainbow Valley: John Martin is a government agent working undercover. Leading citizen Morgan calls in gunman Galt who blows Martin's cover..
Contains the titles: 'Riders Of Destiny' 'West Of The Divide' and 'The Sagebrush Trail'. In Riders Of Destiny a secret agent is sent in to restore the water supply to a group of ranchers. In West Of The Divide a man pretends to be a killer and in Sagebrush Trail a wrongly convicted cowboy searches for a murderer.
Winds of the Wasteland is a classic early John Wayne film. It stars The Duke as John Blair who with his partner Larry Adams aims to set up a stage line when the Pony Express folds. When a crooked stage line operator sells them a worthless stage line through a dead end town it looks like they've wasted their money. However Blair reinvigorates the town single-handedly and vows to operate the line anyway. When he hears of a race to win a government mail contract he comes up against the crooked stage line operator once more a man who will do whatever it takes to win the contract.
John Wayne: Stagecoach Run
Here's an unexpected collection of rare John Wayne Western Classics. An unorthodox Western for its time, anticipating the social and moral issues that Clint Eastwood found in the genre a generation later, Angel and the Badman (1947) is the first film produced by Wayne, which may account for the rather hesitant action sequences and uneasy balance between the hero as gun-toting outlaw and man of conscience who is drawn into a Quaker family and their duty of forgiveness. Gail Russell is sympathetic as Penelope, and there's a priceless cameo from Harry Carey as the sheriff. The two shorter features (54 minutes each) are pre-Stagecoach Wayne, interesting for the light they shed on his development of the authentic Wayne persona. Blue Steel (1934) finds him joining forces with the doughty George Hayes in a scenario that pre-echoes For a Few Dollars More. Winds of the Wasteland (1936) pays tribute to the mail-run pioneers, Wayne and Lane Chandler beating crooked banker Douglas Cosgrove at his own game. The closing stagecoach chase must have seemed thrilling back then. On the DVD John Wayne Western Classics three-disc set is a no-frills presentation, though with decent remastering at 1.33:1 aspect ratio There's no attempt to disguise the low-budget production values of the 30s films, whose undeniable creakiness is surely an attraction in itself. Wayne and Western devotees need not hesitate. --Richard Whitehouse
BLUE STEELJohn Carruthers (Wayne) goes undercover to unmask crooked speculators who intend to buy up the supposedly worthless town that actually stands on top of a huge load of gold.WINDS OF THE WASTELANDSJohn Blair purchases a run-down stagecoach line and enters a race with villainous stage operator Cal Drake for the rights to a government mail-delivery contract.THE TRAIL BEYONDRod Drew seeks a missing miner in mountain country. When he finds a map leading to a gold mine henchman LaRocque is determined to have the mine for himself.4 CLASSIC TV EPISODE OF BONANZA VOL 1The GunmenThe Spanish GrantBlood On The LandThe StrangerWhen producer David Dortort sold NBC on the idea of creating BONANZA he had no idea he was creating a phenomena that would air for an incredible 14 years as a first-run show on U.S. TV be syndicated to virtually every country around the globe and introduce characters who would become beloved by hundreds of millions of fans.Bonanza is more than a TV western about a man and his three sons working as a family in the rough and violent era of the Old West. It has become a piece of the fabric of American culture. Ben Cartwright and his sons Adam Hoss and Little Joe are familiar names to people who weren't even born when the show first aired and the show's distinctive opening theme is instantly recognized everywhere.4 CLASSIC TV EPISODES OF THE LONE RANGER VOL 1A fiery horse with the speed of light a cloud of dust and a hearty 'Hi Yo Silver!' The Lone Ranger Clayton Moore with his faithful Indian companion Tonto Jay Silverheels the daring and resourceful masked rider of the plains led the fight for law and order in the early west.Perhaps the most famous Western of all is The Lone Ranger. It was the tale of the mysterious masked man and his faithful Indian companion and their efforts to maintain law and order throughout the West. It came to TV in 1949 in a series of half-hour films epitomizing the good guys vs. the bad guys Western theme. return with us now to those thrilling days of yesteryear. The Lone Ranger rides again!
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