Cowboy 3-Pack [3 Discs]

DVD FEATURES:

• Region: 1
• Number of Discs: 3
• Audio: Dolby Digital Mono
• Screen: Enhanced Wide Screen Letterbox for 16x9 TV
• Features:
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  • Cahill: United States Marshall: Feature length audio commentary by director Andrew V. McLaglen
  • Making of documentary - The Man Behind the Star
  • Theatrical trailer
  • Chisum: Commentary by director Andrew V. McLaglen
  • Vintage featurette John Wayne and Chisum
  • Theatrical trailer
  • She Wore a Yellow Ribbon: John Ford home movies
  • Theatrical trailer

AWARDS

• Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

•     Won Best Color Cinematography - 1949 (Winton Hoch)

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

• Cast:

  
       John Wayne - Capt. Nathan Brittles
       Forrest Tucker - Lawrence Murphy
       Christopher George - Dan Nodeen
       Ben Johnson - James Pepper
       Clay O'Brien - Billy Joe Cahill
       Andrew Prine - Alex McSween
       Bruce Cabot - Sheriff Brady
       Geoffrey Deuel - Billy "The Kid" Bonney
       Arthur Shields - Dr. O'Laughlin
       Harry Woods - Karl Rynders
       Richard Jaeckel - Jess Evans
       Lynda Day - Sue McSween
       Cliff Lyons - Trooper Cliff
       Lloyd Battista - Neemo
       Michael Dugan - Sgt. Hochbauer
       Mickey Simpson - Wagner
       Edward Faulkner - Dolan
       Don Summers - Jenkins
       John Mitchum - Baker
       Jack Pennick - Sergeant Major
       Alan Baxter - Gov. Axtell
       Alberto Morin - Delgado
       Fred Graham - Hench
       Fred Kennedy - Badger
       Christopher Mitchum - O'Folliard
       Abraham Sofaer - White Buffalo
       Gregg Palmer - Riker
       Lee Bradley - Interpreter
       Bill Gettinger - Officer

• Director:

  Andrew V. McLaglen, John Ford

• Producer:

  Michael Wayne, Merian C. Cooper, John Ford, Andrew J. Fenady

• Screenwriter:

  Harry Julian Fink, Rita M. Fink, Barney Slater, Frank S. Nugent, Laurence Stallings, Andrew J. Fenady

• Cinematographer:

  Joseph Biroc, Charles P. Boyle, Winton Hoch, William H. Clothier

• Composer (Music Score):

  Elmer Bernstein

• Musical Direction/Supervision:

  Constantin Bakaleinikoff

• Composer (Music Score):

  Richard Hageman

• Songwriter:

  Andrew J. Fenady

• Composer (Music Score):

  Dominic Frontiere

• Songwriter:

  Norman Gimbel

• Editor:

  Robert L. Simpson, Jack Murray

• Production Designer:

  Walter M. Simonds, Luster Bayless

• Art Director:

  James Basevi, Carl Anderson

• Associate Producer:

  Lowell J. Farrell

• Set Designer:

  Ray Moyer, Joe Kish

• Costume Designer:

  Ann Peck, Michael Meyers, Luster Bayless, Michael J. Harte

• Sound/Sound Designer:

  John Ferguson

• Makeup:

  David Grayson

• Special Effects:

  Howard Jensen, Albert J. Whitlock, Jack Cosgrove, Jack Caffee

• First Assistant Director:

  Fred R. Simpson, Edward O'Fearna, Wingate Smith

• Singer:

  Merle Haggard

• Short Story Author:

  James Warner Bellah

REVIEWS:

• John Wayne was one of the few personalities who could carry a movie almost entirely on his personality, and Chisum is one of those movies. It came out in 1970, a year after Wayne won an Oscar for his self-referential role in True Grit and Sam Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch revolutionized the screen Western. Hollywood studios (behind the times as usual) continued to make the genre the old fashioned way for a few more years. Chisum follows all the traditional formulas, but, thanks to a solid performance by Wayne and some high-energy action sequences, it manages to be good entertainment. Ben Johnson is pretty standard as the comic sidekick; remarkably, this was the film before his Oscar-winning performance in The Last Picture Show. The director, Andrew McLaglen, went on to direct a number of lamentable -- though quite funny -- sequels to movies that he had nothing to do with originally, including Return From the River Kwai, Sergeant Steiner, and The Dirty Dozen: The Next Mission. ~ Brendon Hanley, Rovi
• The middle leg of the John Ford/John Wayne "Cavalry Trilogy" -- following Fort Apache (1948) and preceding Rio Grande (1950) -- gives Wayne the opportunity to prove his talents as an actor, and he doesn't disappoint. His sentimental performance lends the film an emotional center lacking in other of Ford's mythic Western struggles; the role remains one of the highlights of The Duke's career. Ford reportedly said he didn't know that Wayne could act until he saw him in Howard Hawks's Red River (1948). Yellow Ribbon also features exceptional, Academy Award-winning camerawork by Winton Hoch, the cinematographer responsible for some of Ford's best-looking pictures. ~ Brendon Hanley, Rovi