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.The Stalking Moon
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starring: Henry Beckman, Richard Bull, Lonny Chapman, Noland Clay, Lou Frizzell
directed by: Robert Mulligan

August 26, 2008
What would a western directed by Alfred Hitchcock have looked like? Odds are that THE STALKING MOON, starring Gregory Peck, would come close.

Peck plays Sam Varner, a scout in the Southwest working to round up the last vestiges of the fierce Apache tribe. Reluctantly he succumbs to the insistent appeals of a white woman (Eva Marie Saint), whom he has rescued from ten years of captivity among the Apaches, to take her and her half-breed son away from their makeshift camp. The one detail that she withholds is that her husband and the father of the boy is the notorious, bloodthirsty and diabolical Apache warrior Salvaje. And you don't have to be historian to recognize that Salvaje is patterned after the real-life Apache warrior Geronimo.
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.Serenity (Widescreen Edition)
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starring: Adam Baldwin, Ron Glass, David Krumholtz, Michael Hitchcock, Alan Tudyk
directed by: Joss Whedon

December 20, 2005
I loved it. I loved the series, I loved the movie. I'm not going to go int more than that... except to say that I would have loved it even more would the stupid network not have cancelled the show in the first place so I could have watched the arc and story line and character development that would have broght us from the last episode of the series to the movie. whew... quite the run-on )
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.Persuasion
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starring: Anthony Head, Alice Krige, Marion Bailey, Peter Wight, Rupert Penry-Jones
directed by: Adrian Shergold

January 15, 2008
I have always loved the 1995 version with Amanda Root and Ciarán Hinds, but this version is better. You see more of their emotions, and the longing each has. I may be prejudiced as it is my favourite Austen, but its a great movie regardless of that.
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.Warner Home Video Western Classics Collection
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from: Warner Home Video

August 26, 2008
I have always loved the 1995 version with Amanda Root and Ciarán Hinds, but this version is better. You see more of their emotions, and the longing each has. I may be prejudiced as it is my favourite Austen, but its a great movie regardless of that.
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.Errol Flynn Westerns
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from: Warner Home Video

August 26, 2008
I have always loved the 1995 version with Amanda Root and Ciarán Hinds, but this version is better. You see more of their emotions, and the longing each has. I may be prejudiced as it is my favourite Austen, but its a great movie regardless of that.
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.Escape From Fort Bravo
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starring: Richard Anderson, Carl Benton, Polly Bergen, Harry V. Cheshire, William Demarest
directed by: John Sturges

August 26, 2008
Escape from Fort Bravo is a very good western that deals with a time and place not often featured in westerns. Fort Bravo is a Union outpost in the Arizona territory during the Civil War. Colonel Owens, Captain Roper, and a company of Union cavalry must watch over the stockade full of Confederate officers while also dealing with the Mescalero Apaches. When four of the prisoners escape with a woman from the fort, Captain Roper and a small detail must chase them across the barren desert as the Apaches close in on them. This is a very good western from director John Sturges(The Magnificent Seven). It is a beautifully shot movie with a good score by Jeff Alexander and Stan Jones. While the first part of the movie is good, the climax is the best part. Stranded in the desert by ... Read More:
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.Saddle the Wind
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starring: Jay Adler, Royal Dano, Nacho Galindo, Julie London, Charles McGraw
directed by: Robert Parrish

August 26, 2008
Escape from Fort Bravo is a very good western that deals with a time and place not often featured in westerns. Fort Bravo is a Union outpost in the Arizona territory during the Civil War. Colonel Owens, Captain Roper, and a company of Union cavalry must watch over the stockade full of Confederate officers while also dealing with the Mescalero Apaches. When four of the prisoners escape with a woman from the fort, Captain Roper and a small detail must chase them across the barren desert as the Apaches close in on them. This is a very good western from director John Sturges(The Magnificent Seven). It is a beautifully shot movie with a good score by Jeff Alexander and Stan Jones. While the first part of the movie is good, the climax is the best part. Stranded in the desert by ... Read More:
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.Tom Selleck Western Collection
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from: Turner Home

May 20, 2008
Escape from Fort Bravo is a very good western that deals with a time and place not often featured in westerns. Fort Bravo is a Union outpost in the Arizona territory during the Civil War. Colonel Owens, Captain Roper, and a company of Union cavalry must watch over the stockade full of Confederate officers while also dealing with the Mescalero Apaches. When four of the prisoners escape with a woman from the fort, Captain Roper and a small detail must chase them across the barren desert as the Apaches close in on them. This is a very good western from director John Sturges(The Magnificent Seven). It is a beautifully shot movie with a good score by Jeff Alexander and Stan Jones. While the first part of the movie is good, the climax is the best part. Stranded in the desert by ... Read More:
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.Broken Trail
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starring: Todd Allen, James Russo, Greta Scacchi, Rusty Schwimmer, Robert Duvall
directed by: Walter Hill

September 05, 2006
Duvall is the one of the greatest character actor ever. The compelling tale of a ruggedly wise cowboy and his estranged nephew quest to deliver horses to Wyoming is great storytelling. I loved the character development (the actors had minimal scripts and emoted so well on screen), the anguish & drama and the storyline. This movie gives Thomas Haden Church the juiciest role I've seen him in--strong, honest, stoic. The Chinese actresses bring gut-wrenching performances--reflecting the hard lives of slaves sold into a life of prostitution in a foreign land. I'm buying this video as part of my library re the Chinese American experience.
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.Centennial: The Complete Series
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from: Universal Studios

July 29, 2008
I watched this mini-series on television in the seventies, and was hooked. This DVD set is simply fabulous, and for both price and entertainment value, it is simply the best DVD purchase I have ever made. Can't recommend this series enough.

Get it. You won't regret it.
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