Directed by
Robert D. Webb
USA 1956
"The Proud Ones"
is a fairly exciting story. The trouble is that you can confuse it with a good
many other westerns. They have put in some of those ready-made characters that
make it look like a lampoon on westerns.
Take those two hired killers who are out to do away with Marshal Robert Ryan.
One is a scar-faced American, the other a sadistic Mexican. These gunslingers
titillate instead of terrorize. Killers, in color and CinemaScope in this case,
aren't supposed to make you laugh.
This is a tale of the transformation of a quiet Kansas town with the arrival of
the first trail herd from Texas accompanied by a saloonkeeper who is an old
enemy of the marshal and a cowboy out to avenge what he believes is the ruthless
killing of his father by that marshal.
The action, if not the suspense, is plentiful. Mr. Ryan and Jeffrey Hunter, as
the cowboy, handle their guns well. Walter Brennan's jailer is a delight. And
those pioneer days must have been something, what with Flat Rock's leading
restaurant proclaiming "All you can eat for 50 cents."
Excerpt from the NY Times located HERE.
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Theatrical Release: May 1956
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DVD Review: 20th Century Fox - Region 1 - NTSC
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| Part of the Classic Western Collection - The Outlaws which contains The Proud Ones, Forty Guns, Broken Lance, and The Culpepper Cattle Co. |
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| Runtime | 1:34:06 | ||||||||||||||||
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| Audio | English (Dolby Digital 4.0), DUBs: French (mono), Spanish (mono) | ||||||||||||||||
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Release Information:
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Super detail and strong colors in this Fox transfer to DVD. The widescreen ratio looked great on my system. It may be the best image of the 4-disc boxset. No extras save a trailer and the price reflects its bare bones production. As far as I am concerned you can't go wrong with a Robert Ryan western and I have always loved Jeffrey Hunter's work (from Jesus to Captain Pike). Virginia Mayo seemed to overact a bit in my opinion, but the film is a keeper for western genre fans. |
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The Crowded Prairie: American National Identity in
the Hollywood Western (Cinema and Society) by Michael Coyne |
The Invention of the Western Film : A Cultural
History of the Genre's First Half Century (Genres in American Cinema S.) by Scott Simmon |
The Western Genre by John Saunders |
Westerns: Films through History (AFI
Film Readers) by Janet Walker |
The Encyclopedia of Westerns (The Facts on File
Film Reference Library) by Herb Fagen, Tom Selleck |
Gunfighter Nation: The Myth of the Frontier in
Twentieth-Century America by Richard Slotkin |
The Western (Inside Film) by David Lusted |
Red River (Bfi Film Classics) by Suzanne Liandrat-Guigues |
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