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Randolph Scott
Triple Feature
The Man Behind the Gun (1953) Thunder Over the Plains
(1953) Riding Shotgun (1954)
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Tall Randolph Scott is every inch a hero in three bullet-laced Westerns. The secessionist fervour of the 1850s comes to California, and undercover Army officer Scott aims to thwart the separatist passions in The Man Behind the Gun (Side A). There's Thunder over the Plains (Side B) and lightning in Scott's holsters in the second film. He portrays an army captain assigned to a lawless area of Texas after the Civil War. Next, Scott is Riding Shotgun (Side B) and heading into a whirlwind of trouble: a mob bent on vigilante justice wrongly suspects him of robbing a stagecoach. An action bull's-eye all the way! |
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First, in "The Man Behind the Gun," Randolph Scott portrays an undercover Army officer in 1850s Los Angeles who competes with a hotheaded fellow military man for the affections of a beautiful schoolteacher while investigating a separatist plot. With Patrice Wymore, Dick Wesson. Next, "Thunder Over the Plains" has Scott starring as an Army captain whose loyalties are divided when he tries to prove a man's innocence. Lex Barker, Phyllis Kirk, Charles McGraw co-star. Then, "Riding Shotgun" features the sagebrush icon dealing with vigilantes who think that he is a stagecoach robber. |
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DVD Review: Warner - Region 1,2,3,4 - NTSC
Big thanks to Ole Kofoed for the screen caps!
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| Runtime | 1:22:18, 1:22:27, 1:14:42 | |
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NOTE: The Vertical axis represents the bits transferred per second. The Horizontal is the time in minutes. |
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| Audio | English Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono. | |
| Subtitles | None | |
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Information: Studio: Warner Aspect
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Details: Chapters: 8 for each movie |
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Well - you don't
hear me complaining - Warner have,
uncharacteristically, produced a real bare
bones, cheapo, package - No chapter menus, no
subtitles, no extras. The image quality appears
to be totally un-restored and exhibits some
damage (see examples) and colors can tend to
look washed-out/faded at times. There is digital
noise visible on the progressive transfers. But
the bottom line - these vintage films are a joy
to western aficionados - not at the level of
Boetticher's collaboration with Scott -
Comanche Station (1960), Ride Lonesome
(1959), Buchanan Rides Alone (1958),
Seven Men from Now (1956) , Decision
at Sundown (1957) or The Tall T
(1957) - which we have been starving for - but
I'll take what we can get in the interim.
Ole says: The Man Behind The Gun: I hope it's only my DVD that has an error and it isn't the same problem that many has with the Universal DVD-18 discs - at 1:16:38 both my PC DVD-drive and my Sony player have problems reading the disc, my Sony jumps 10 seconds. there are visible cue blips. The colors is a bit unstable. Some speckles, most in the beginning of the movie. The best transfer of the 3 is Riding Shotgun, expect the first couple of minutes where there is some print damage (see capture), dirt and speckles. One Disc with The Man Behind the Gun (1953) on side A, and Thunder Over the Plains (1953) and Riding Shotgun (1954) sharing side B. The price is super cheap but our wish for single-disc issues - restored with some extras appears to have fallen on deaf ears - we can watch these and still hope. |
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directed by Felix E. Feist
USA 1953
Theatrical Release: 31 January 1953 - USA
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directed by André De Toth
USA 1953
Theatrical Release: 27 October 1953 - USA
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directed by André De Toth
USA 1954
Theatrical Release: 1 April 1954 - USA
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Recommended Reading for Western Genre Fans (CLICK COVERS or TITLES for more information)
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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
Searchers (Bfi Film
Classics) by Edward Buscombe |
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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