Crawdaddy's "Random Thoughts" about Home Video, Film & TV (6 Viewers)

[Robert Crawford]

It’s getting closer to March 1st when we start our first HTF “Western” Movies Challenge. I hope my preorder of “3 Godfathers” Blu-ray arrives before the end of the month. March 26th is cutting it close.

Post in thread 'Crawdaddy's "Random Thoughts" about Home Video, Film & TV'
https://www.hometheaterforum.com/co...-about-home-video-film-tv.351550/post-5068775

My 4K/UHD of "Gunfight at the O.K. Corral" has shipped and should arrive by February 27th. However, I'm not going to watch it until March 1st so it will be the first movie I watched during this "Western Movie Challenge".

 

[Mark-P]

So I've culled a shortlist of possibilities of Westerns for me to watch in March. These are all titles I haven't seen for at least a decade or more. I won't get them all watched for the challenge, but maybe half of them???

Abilene Town (Panamint BD)
Bad Company (digital HD)
The Big Trail (Fox BD)
Broken Arrow (Kino BD)
Buck and the Preacher (digital HD)
Decision at Sundown (Indicator BD)
Destry Rides Again (Koch BD)
The Duel at Silver Creek (Kino BD)
Fort Dobbs (digital HD)
Forty Guns (Eureka BD)
Garden of Evil (Twilight Time BD)
Geronimo: An American Legend (Twilight Time BD)
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (digital 4K HDR)
Jubal (Criterion BD)
The Last Wagon (Koch BD)
Maverick (Warner BD)
McCabe & Mrs. Miller (Criterion BD)
Once Upon a Time in the West (digital 4K HDR)
The Outlaw Josey Wales (Warner BD)
Rio Bravo (digital 4K HDR)
Ulzana’s Raid (Kino BD)

 

[Robert Crawford]

Right now, I have 27 Westerns listed below. Those titles were purchased after I completed my "100 All-Time Favorite Westerns Challenge" back in December 2021. Many of the following I have sampled, but never watched the movie in its entirety. A few I haven't received yet which are Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, 5 Card Stud, The Shootist and Quigley Down Under. I expect to receive those four titles before the end of March. There is a chance I might add to this list but also a chance I might drop some from this list. It depends on circumstances and timing.

1. Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (Paramount 4K/UHD)
2. 5 Card Stud (Vinegar Syndrome Blu-ray)
3. The Shootist (Arrow Blu-ray)
4. Quigley Down Under (Shout Factory! 4K/UHD)
5. Buck and the Preacher (Criterion Blu-ray)
6. Fancy Pants (Kino Blu-ray)
7. High Plains Drifter (Kino 4K/UHD)
8. Tomahawk (Kino Blu-ray)
9. Border River (Kino Blu-ray)
10. They Came to Cordura (Kino Blu-ray)
11. The White Buffalo (Kino Blu-ray)
12. The Tall T (The Ranown Westerns Criterion 4K/UHD)
13. Decision at Sundown (The Ranown Westerns Criterion 4K/UHD)
14. Buchanan Rides Alone (The Ranown Westerns Criterion 4K/UHD)
15. Ride Lonesome (The Ranown Westerns Criterion 4K/UHD)
16. Comanche Station (The Ranown Westerns Criterion 4K/UHD)
17. Cimarron (1931) (Warner Archive Blu-ray)
18. Hell Bent for Leather (Audie Murphy Collection III Kino Blu-ray)
19. Posse from Hell (Audie Murphy Collection III Kino Blu-ray)
20. Showdown (Audie Murphy Collection III Kino Blu-ray)
21. The Last Posse (Vudu HD Digital)
22. Outlaw Women (Vudu HD Digital)
23. Warpath (iTunes HD Digital)
24. Young Guns (Lionsgate 4K/UHD)
25. Relentless (Vudu HD Digital)
26. The Great Missouri Raid (Vudu HD Digital)
27. Red Mountain (Vudu HD Digital)

 

[Mark-P]

I would add Cimarron '31 and Wichita Warner Archive Blu-rays to my list if I could get them on sale for $12 ea. or less.

 

[Robert Crawford]

Who is this famous entertainer in his younger days? This should be easy as his face didn't change much over the years.

 

[mskaye]

Who is this famous entertainer in his younger days? This should be easy as his face didn't change much over the years.

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Charles Boyer or Jack Benny?

 

[David Weicker]

Who is this famous entertainer in his younger days? This should be easy as his face didn't change much over the years.

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Welllll …

I’m thinking, I’m thinking

 

[Matt Hough]

Yeah, my first inclination was Boyer, but Benny seems right.

 

[Angelo Colombus]

My guess is Jack Benny and he did join the Navy in World War I.

 

[ahollis]

Jack Benny of course.

 

[Robert Crawford]

My guess is Jack Benny and he did join the Navy in World War I.

Yes, it's Jack Benny who was in the Navy in World War I. He got his basic training at Great Lakes Navy Training Center along with a couple of other Navy Boots from Milwaukee. Pat O'Brien and Spencer Tracy.

 

[cda1143]

Criterion flash sale live.

 

[Robert Crawford]

Criterion flash sale live.

I had my cart loaded and completed my order less than five minutes after the sale began. I got The Roaring Twenties, Blood Simple and Lone Star 4K/UHD plus Blast of Silence and Nothing but a Man Blu-rays using two $10 codes that knocked $20 off my order.

 

[Richard M S]

I had my cart loaded and completed my order less than five minutes after the sale began. I got The Roaring Twenties, Blood Simple and Lone Star 4K/UHD plus Blast of Silence and Nothing but a Man Blu-rays using two $10 codes that knocked $20 off my order.

Wow, that's so awesome! Let us know when you receive them and watch each one of them.

 

[Robert Crawford]

Please, if you're interested in participating in this "Western Challenge" during the month of March, below is a direct link to the thread in which participants can post their movie/TV show opinions. Anyone is welcome and the Challenge rules are listed in the first post in that linked thread below. Thank you for your consideration in this matter.

***Official 1st HTF Western Movies/TV Shows Challenge 2024***

***Official 1st HTF Western Movies/TV Shows Challenge 2024*** 1. Watch Western-Movies/TV Shows from midnight March 1, 2024 through March 31, 2024 (use your own time zone to set the ending time). 2. Each Western-Movie/TV show can be viewed by physical media such as DVD, Blu-ray, 4K/UHD, etc...

www.hometheaterforum.com

 

[Robert Crawford]

How many people can you recognize in the photo below that has Fay Wray and the 1934 Hollywood Football Team?

 

[Robert Crawford]

TCM’s March Schedule:

TCM Monthly Schedule - View the Full TCM TV Schedule

Find TCM's full month schedule and learn what classic movies will be airing on Turner Classic Movies. A printable schedule organized for the current month's programming is also available here.

www.tcm.com

 

[Matt Hough]

John Wayne, Dick Foran, and Pat O'Brien quickly spring to mind.

 

[Bob Gu]

I see Johnny Mack Brown, Charles Starrett, and Andy Devine.

Robert Emmett Keane and Dale Van Sickle.

 

[Bert Greene]

Looks like William Bakewell on bottom right.

More of a longshot, but could second from left on bottom be Jackie Coogan?