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Call Number: DVD00894

by: Robert Redford; John Wayne; Ann-Margret; Rod Taylor; John Rubinstein; Tim McIntire; Dominic Frontiere; William Holden; Ernest Borgnine; Robert Ryan; Edmond O’Brien; Warren Oates; Warren Beatty; Julie Christie; Jerry Fielding; Edmund Naughton; Turner Classic Movies (Television network); Warner Bros. Pictures (1969- ); Warner Home Video (Firm);

Format: DVD

Language: English

Publisher: Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, [2009];

Notes:  Films Released between 1969 and 1972, (711 mins.) Special features: Disc 1, Side A: “The saga of Jeremiah Johnson” vintage featurette; theatrical trailer. Side B: “Working with a Western legend” featurette; “The Wayne train” featurette; John Wayne movie trailer gallery. — Disc 2, Side A: Commentary by Peckinpah biographers/documentarians Nick Redman, Paul Seydor, Garner Simmons and David Weddle; Sam Peckinpah movie trailer gallery. Side B: Commentary by director Robert Altman and producer David Foster; vintage featurette; theatrical trailer.
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Jeremiah Johnson: Jeremiah is an American soldier who goes west to escape the Mexican War and becomes a mountain man. He is taken in by an old trapper who teaches him how to survive. After unavoidably violating an Indian burial ground, he loses his new Indian wife and their adopted child to vengeance. A vendetta between him and the Crows ruins his idyllic life as a fur trapper.

 

The Train Robbers: Mrs. Lowe is a beautiful widow who wants to clear her family’s name by finding and returning the gold her husband stole. Three cowboy buddies sign on to help her. But where there’s gold, there’s sure to be trouble.

 

The Wild Bunch: After a botched robbery attempt in Texas, Pike Bishop and his gang head across the Rio Grande and into Mexico. They are pursued by bounty hunters hired to prevent the gang from robbing the rail depot. Bishop’s gang extend their time in Mexico when they meet a Mexican general who wants them to rob a U.S. train carrying arms.

 

McCabe & Mrs. Miller: John McCabe arrives in a young Pacific Northwest town to set up a whorehouse/tavern. Mrs. Miller, a professional madam, arrives soon after and offers to use her experience to help run the business, while sharing in the profits. The whorehouse thrives and mining deposits in the town attract a major corporation wants to buy out McCabe. He refuses, and his decision has major repercussions for Mrs. Miller, the town, and him.

 

OCLC #: 375581304

Added: March 18, 2011

Call Number: DVD00893

by: Andrew J Fenady; Andrew V McLaglen; John Wayne; Forrest Tucker; Christopher George; Ben Johnson; Alvin Sargent; Wendell Mayes; Alan J Pakula; Robert Mulligan; Theodore V Olsen; Gregory Peck; Eva Marie Saint; Robert Forster; Noland Clay; Sam Peckinpah; Gordon Carroll; Rudolph Wurlitzer; James Coburn; Kris Kristofferson; Bob Dylan; Jason Robards; N B Stone; Richard E Lyons; Randolph Scott; Joel McCrea; Mariette Hartley; Warner Home Video (Firm); Warner Bros.; Batjac Productions.; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.; Warner Bros. Pictures (1969- ); Pakula-Mulligan Productions.);

Format: DVD

Language: English

Publisher: Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, 2010];

Notes:  Films Released between 1962 and 1973, (431 mins.) The stalking moon: From the novel “The Stalking Moon” by Theodore V. Olsen. Special features: Commentary by Peckinpah, biographers/documentarians Nick Redman, Paul Seydor, Garner Simmons and David Weddle; featurette “A Justified Life: Sam Peckinpah and the High Country”; Sam Peckinpah trailer gallery; theatrical trailer.
Ride the high country: Originally released as a motion picture in 1962.
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Chisum: Cattle baron John Chisum joins forces with Billy the Kid and Pat Garrett to fight the Lincoln County land war–www.imdb.com.

 

Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid: An aging Pat Garrett is hired as a lawman on behalf of a group of wealthy New Mexico cattle barons–his sole purpose being to bring down his old friend Billy the Kid–www.imdb.com.

 

The Stalking Moon: When an army scout retires to a farm in New Mexico he takes pity on a white woman and her half-breed son recently rescued from indians, and invites them to join him. He does this even knowing the child’s father is a feared and murderous Apache and that sooner or later a showdown is almost inevitable–www.imdb.com.

 

Ride the High Country: An ex-lawman is hired to transport gold from a mining community through dangerous territory. But what he doesn’t realize is that his partner and old friend is plotting to double-cross him–www.imdb.com.

 

OCLC #: 642685539

Added: March 18, 2011