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John Wayne DVD Gift Set
(The Shootist, The Sons of Katie Elder, True Grit, El Dorado, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance)
Starring: John Wayne
John Wayne DVD Gift Set
Encoding: Region 1 (US and Canada only)
Format: Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen, Box set
Studio: Paramount Home Video
DVD Features:
Include 5 Discs:
The Shootist
-Exclusive cast and crew interviews
-The Shootist - The Legend Lives On
The Sons of Katie Elder
True Grit
El Dorado
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Widescreen anamorphic format
Number of discs: 5
John Wayne ... There Rode a Legend: A Western Tribute
by Jane Pattie, Wilma Russell, Maureen O'Hara
McLintock! (1963)
Starring: John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen
John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara were born to star in "The Taming of the Shrew," and this is the closest they ever got.
John Wayne plays a cattle baron whose estranged wife (O'Hara) wants a divorce.
The film is basically one long, funny brawl between them, ending with a mud pit melee and Wayne publicly spanking O'Hara, which doesn't look quite so politically correct anymore.
This is no great shakes - director Andrew V. McLaglen is simply hosting a party
here -- but it's worth a few chuckles and the stars' broad performances.
McLintock!
Encoding: All Regions
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, Color
Rated: NR
Studio: Goodtimes Home Video
DVD Features:
Full-screen format
The Quiet Man (1952)
Starring: John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara Director: John Ford
Blarney and bliss, mixed in equal proportions.
John Wayne plays an American boxer who returns to the Emerald Isle, his native land.
What he finds there is a fiery prospective spouse (Maureen O'Hara) and a country greener than any Ireland seen before or
since -- it's no surprise The Quiet Man won an Oscar for cinematography.
It also won an Oscar for John Ford's direction, his fourth such award.
The film was a deeply personal project for Ford (whose birth name was Sean Aloysius O'Fearna), and he lavished all of his affection for the Irish landscape and Irish people on this film.
He also stages perhaps the greatest donnybrook in the history of movies, an epic fistfight between Wayne and the truculent Victor
McLaglen -- that's Ford's brother, Francis, as the elderly man on his deathbed who miraculously revives when he hears word of the dustup.
Barry Fitzgerald, the original Irish elf, gets the movie's biggest laugh when he walks into the newlyweds' bedroom the morning after their wedding, and spots a broken bed.
The look on his face says everything.
The Quiet Man isn't the real Ireland, but as a delicious never-never land of Ford's imagination, it will do very nicely.
The Quiet Man
Encoding: Region 1 (US and Canada only)
Format: Color, Closed-captioned, Dolby
Rated: NR
Studio: Republic Studios
DVD Features:
Theatrical trailer(s)
"Making of The Quiet Man" hosted by Leonard Maltin (B/W & Color, 20 min.)
Other Formats: VHS, DVD
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