Most Wanted Western on DVD

[B5Erik]

There are just tons of great westerns waiting to see the light of day on DVD, but most of them will probably never get released.

The one, more than any other, that I want on DVD is:

WARLOCK (1959)

This one features Henry Fonda, Anthony Quinn, Richard Widmark, Dorothy Malone, & DeForest Kelly. It is a very mature western for that time. The script was great, the performances were very believable, and the direction was solid.

It is going to be released as a R2 DVD early in 2005, but I want an R1 release. I'm hoping that it happens.

There are several others I'd like, such as The Naked Spur, Johnny Guitar, etc - but Warlock is the one I want the most.

What is your "most wanted" Western?

[marty888]

:up: for <i>Johnny Guitar</i>

and

<b>BROKEN LANCE</b> superb script and performances lift this far abve the average "western", which makes sense, since it's basically a remake of an "eastern" titled <i>House of Strangers</i>, with Spencer Tracy tackling the original Edward G.Robinson role that owes a lot to <i>King Lear</i>.

[The Exister]

Johnny Guitar (one of my all-time favorite films)

Robert Wise's westerns:
-Blood on the Moon (Robert Wise)
-Two Flags West
-Tribute to a Bad Man

Sam Fuller's westerns:
-Forty Guns
-I Shot Jesse James
-The Baron of Arizona
-Run of the Arrow

Fritz Lang's westerns:
-Rancho Notorious
-Western Union
-The Return of Frank James

Anthony Mann:
-Devil's Doorway
-The Furies
-The Naked Spur
-Man of the West
-Cimarron

[Scott716]

The Stalking Moon (1969) - Gregory Peck

The only one left I really want that isn't out..very little dialogue, not your usual type western.

[Geofferson]

A Fistful of Dynamite

[Jaymole]

Fistful of Dynamite
The Gunfighter
Man of the West
Ride the High Country

[Cameron]

more sam fuller

[Ginwen]

Ride the High Country, The Naked Spur, and The Big Gundown are three I'm really waiting for.

[SamSpade]

Great choices -- hard to disagree with any of them.

I am waiting for the Randolph Scott westerns he made with Budd Boetticher in the 1950s:

Comanche Station
Ride Lonesome
Westbound
Buchanan Rides Alone
Decision at Sundown
The Tall T
Seven Men from Now

I don't think any of these are on DVD yet, but please correct me if I'm mistaken.

[Sessa17]

Hannie Caulder - I love this movie. Raquel Welch at her hottest, the always enjoyable Ernest Borgnine, Christopher Lee & a great underrated performance by Robert Culp

Ride The Whirlwind - There is a really shitty release of this out but I want a legit release of this. Most people never heard of it, it's one of my favorite Nicholson movies he wrote it also & it's directed by the great Monte Hellman.

[psd]

Wanda Nevada






seriously.
its an old, schlocky favorite.

[billy9215]

Johnny Guitar

Anything by Russ Meyer

[FilmFanSea]

My three most-wanted unreleased Westerns are:

Johnny Guitar (Nicholas Ray/1954/Republic-->Artisan-->Paramount) *The rights revert to Paramount in the Fall of 2005

The Naked Spur (Anthony Mann/1953/MGM-->Warner)

Ride the High Country (Sam Peckinpah/1962/MGM-->Warner) *Expected in 2005

[bigE]

Fort Apache (1948)
The Westerner (1940)

[obscurelabel]

Great choices -- hard to disagree with any of them.

I am waiting for the Randolph Scott westerns he made with Budd Boetticher in the 1950s:

Comanche Station
Ride Lonesome
Westbound
Buchanan Rides Alone
Decision at Sundown
The Tall T
Seven Men from Now

I don't think any of these are on DVD yet, but please correct me if I'm mistaken.


Seven Men from Now is part of the agreement between Paramount and John Wayne's estate (which owns the film, it was produced by Wayne's company). Paramount has said it will be released, but haven't given a timetable as far as I know.

http://www.jwaynefan.com/paramount.html

[JOE29]

I'm a big western movie fan and I do own alot of western movies but there are still some out there that aren't on DVD that I would like to see released like, Rio Conchos, El Condor, a remasterd High Plains Drifter & Hang'em High. 100 Rifles, the Battle at Apache Pass, i've also read that there's a couple that are supposed to come out in the near future like Broken Arrow, Major Dundee which i'm waiting for.

[Mutley Hyde]

Criterion SE of Terror of Tiny Town.

[ken_572002]

1) Johnny Guitar
2) Ride The High Country
3) John Wayne's six 1930s Warner Westerns (Ride 'em Cowboy, Haunted Gold, etc...)

[Mountain Biker]

Ride the High Country
The Balled of Cable Hogue
The Legend of the Lone Ranger

[Mike Lowrey]

Anybody have Eastwood's Pale Rider? How is the transfer?

[Easy]

Fort Apache (1948)
Agree. Why don't we have this yet? The other two have been out for ages.

[Cameron]

Anybody have Eastwood's Pale Rider? How is the transfer?

worth under ten bucks...it seems flat at points...not blurry just dirty

[ernestrp]

Still waiting for the 2-disc SE of Stagecoach that was supposed to be released this year and The Cheyenne Social Club. Alot of the others mentioned here are good to.

[Mondo Kane]

Blindman (1971)

[ernestrp]

Hannie Caulder - I love this movie. Raquel Welch at her hottest, the always enjoyable Ernest Borgnine, Christopher Lee & a great underrated performance by Robert Culp

Ride The Whirlwind - There is a really shitty release of this out but I want a legit release of this. Most people never heard of it, it's one of my favorite Nicholson movies he wrote it also & it's directed by the great Monte Hellman.

VCI released a Director's Restored Widescreen Version of Ride in the Whirlwind with a Monte Hellman/Millie Perkins commentary but its been OOP for awhile now.

[LarryB]

I would like to see a couple of Glenn Ford westerns on dvd:

Jubal
The Violent Men

[joliom]

My top wants are:

The Naked Spur
Broken Arrow
Man of the West
Fort Apache
Hondo
A Fistful of Dynamite
My Name Is Nobody
Lonely Are the Brave
Ride the High Country
The Gunfighter

Plus a whole bunch of remaster wants.

[Falc04]

My top wants are:

The Naked Spur
Broken Arrow
Man of the West
Fort Apache
Hondo
A Fistful of Dynamite
My Name Is Nobody
Lonely Are the Brave
Ride the High Country
The Gunfighter

Plus a whole bunch of remaster wants.

Hondo supposedly is coming in May 2005, along with McLintock, Island In The Sky, and The High And The Mighty....all released by Paramount.

[flixtime]

Nice to see a strong turnout in this discussion...sometimes I get the feeling I'm the last man on earth who likes Westerns.......

John Wayne's The Alamo (LONG VERSION!) and way too many more for me to list so I'll just give a second nomination to those already listed.

I most definitely agree with the earlier mention of "El Condor" by Joe29; it contains perhaps the sexiest scene ever in a Western (when Mariana Hill puts on a show while undressing).

I know they're working on it but let's get moving on the Errol Flynn Westerns.

How about Yellow Sky (1949) with Gregory Peck and Richard Widmark?

and many more..........and some more Audie Murphy too!

[nightmaster]

The Train Robbers- one of John Wayne's last movies, with Ann-Margret and Ben Johnson. I'm also waiting for the SE of McClintock! that is supposedly coming down the road soon so I can burn the ugly, public domain looking copy in the stores now.

[Sandpuppy]

Ride the High Country
The Naked Spur
Fort Apache
Comanche Station
Yellow Sky
The Bravados
The Westerner
The Big Trail (Widescreen version)
The Gunfighter
Monte Walsh (the Lee Marvin/Jack Palance version)
The Big Sky
Fort Massacre
Colorado Territory
Hondo
Day of the Evil Gun
Ride Lonesome
Station West

[randyba]

A Fistful of Dynamite
My Name Is Nobody (I had to hook up a VCR so I could watch this on a vhs tape I borrowed from a friend. at least it was wide screen)

[shill66]

Most wanted by far is the legendary Val Lewton's final production Apache Drums.

Apart from that, we really do need Fort Apache on DVD too.

[will travel]

Escape From Fort Bravo with William Holden.
The Good Guys and The Bad Guys with Robert Mitchuum.
Dirty Dingus McGee with Frank Sinatra.

[LarryB]

Another John Wayne western that is very hard to find is Shepherd of the Hills. I like this movie a lot. Would love to see a good dvd release.

[Dmacsg1]

The Train Robbers- one of John Wayne's last movies, with Ann-Margret and Ben Johnson. I'm also waiting for the SE of McClintock! that is supposedly coming down the road soon so I can burn the ugly, public domain looking copy in the stores now.


:thumbsup::thumbsup: AMEN!! brother!!

I have been wanting the Train Robbers for a long time now!!

I also want The Legend Of The Lone Ranger!

Take care all!!

[JesseCuster]

It's out already, in flipper mode, but an SE of The Wild Bunch has to be on the horizon sometime soon. Criterion could do wonders with it.

[JOE29]

Anyone know of Hondo, not the John Wayne movie, but the tv show?

[Hobgoblin]

My want list:

All the Trinity movies with Terence Hill and Bud Spencer (the crappy DVDs available right now do not count)
My name is nobody
The five man army (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064300/)

[dom56]

Cheyenne Autumn(1964) - John Ford's last great western.
The Hanging Tree(1959) - Gary Cooper's last performance in a western.
The Last Wagon(1956) - Good flick starring Richard Widmark as a man running from justice saving some young surviors in a indian attack.
Bad Day At Black Rock(1955) - Not a real western but it does set up in a modern western town, good performances by Spencer Tracy and Robert Ryan.

[John Hodson]

It's out already, in flipper mode, but an SE of The Wild Bunch has to be on the horizon sometime soon. Criterion could do wonders with it.

Expect a 2-disc SE from Warners sometime next year (as well as what promises to be a super edition of Pat Garrett & Billy The Kid); part of a Sam Peckinpah box set.

[brizz]

Broken Arrow (1950)
Ride the High Country
Bad Day at Black Rock
Cheyenne Autumn
Naked Spur
A two disc set featuring the 1914 and 1931 versions of Squaw Man by Cecil B. DeMille.

Not a western per se, but Northwest Passage is another i'm dying for.

[Buford T Pusser]

VCI released a Director's Restored Widescreen Version of Ride in the Whirlwind with a Monte Hellman/Millie Perkins commentary but its been OOP for awhile now.


Agreed. I picked up this and The Shooting from DDD for around $15 each. Didn't know they were out of print.

[Falc04]

Another John Wayne western that is very hard to find is Shepherd of the Hills. I like this movie a lot. Would love to see a good dvd release.

Couldn't agree more....great movie!!

[ViewAskewbian]

Add another vote for Johnny Guitar.

[John Hodson]

Another John Wayne western that is very hard to find is Shepherd of the Hills. I like this movie a lot. Would love to see a good dvd release.

Available in R2 as part of this (http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0002W1ALO/qid=1103478272/sr=2-2/ref=sr_2_11_2/202-4273321-0635056) John Wayne box set, from Universal. Apparently it's one of the few highlights of a rather poor effort from Universal.

[B5Erik]

Count me as another person who is very glad to see the response to this thread. I grew up in the 70's and 80's when westerns were not in vogue. I never really gave westerns a second thought until I saw Young Guns. While that may not be the best western ever, it was very good and opened my eyes to the possibility that westerns could be among the best movies ever made and not just another TV genre.

Since then I've become a western junkie - and I really want to get almost all of the titles listed on this thread, but at the top of my "want list" list is WARLOCK.

[BassDude]

My want list:

All the Trinity movies with Terence Hill and Bud Spencer


Beat me to it.

And, as mentioned previously as well, Cheyenne Social Club.

[PixyJunket]

Whew.. good to see Hondo on the schedule.

[B5Erik]

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0007PALQG.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

Damn! I didn't have to wait long after posting this thread! It will be out on 5/24/05!

That is one seriously good Western.

[will travel]

Another movie I would like on dvd.
The Law and Jake Wade with Robert Taylor and Richard Widmark.

[ruk]

most of Eastwood's westerns, all in a SE format.

[John Hodson]

Another movie I would like on dvd.
The Law and Jake Wade with Robert Taylor and Richard Widmark.

Good call, put me down for Taylor's The Last Hunt too.