The Walking Hills (1949)

[Winston T. Boogie]

Title: The Walking Hills (1949)

Tagline: 10 WENT IN...7 CAME OUT...as the Walking Hills guarded their treasure!

Genre: Western

Director: John Sturges

Cast: Randolph Scott, Ella Raines, Arthur Kennedy, Edgar Buchanan, John Ireland, William Bishop, Jerome Courtland, Russell Collins, Josh White, Houseley Stevenson, Reed Howes

Release: 1949-03-05

Runtime: 78

Plot: A study in greed in which treasure hunters seek a shipment of gold buried in Death Valley.

 

[Robert Crawford]

I really like this movie. It's too bad I only have it on DVD. A Blu-ray release would be welcome.

 

[Winston T. Boogie]

Anybody familiar with this film? It has a good cast and directed by John Sturges. Essentially a tale like Treasure of the Sierra Madre but on a smaller scale. A group of people that meet in a card game go searching for a wagon train that was carrying gold that disappeared in a desert called The Walking Hills many years ago. I saw it a list of "The Best Westerns You've Never Seen" and watched it. I liked it a lot and went searching for a Blu-ray of it which does not exist. There are it seems a couple different DVD versions but it is also streaming in a variety of places. I was thinking it deserves a Blu and maybe someone like Kino could get hold of this one.

 

[Winston T. Boogie]

I really like this movie. It's too bad I only have it on DVD. A Blu-ray release would be welcome.

I figured if someone here knew this one it would be you. Yeah, it's a good film. I ended up discovering there was no Blu of it. I watched it streaming the other night but think it would look a lot better on Blu-ray.

 

[Robert Crawford]

Anybody familiar with this film? It has a good cast and directed by John Sturges. Essentially a tale like Treasure of the Sierra Madre but on a smaller scale. A group of people that meet in a card game go searching for a wagon train that was carrying gold that disappeared in a desert called The Walking Hills many years ago. I saw it a list of "The Best Westerns You've Never Seen" and watched it. I liked it a lot and went searching for a Blu-ray of it which does not exist. There are it seems a couple different DVD versions but it is also streaming in a variety of places. I was thinking it deserves a Blu and maybe someone like Kino could get hold of this one.

This is the DVD boxset I have of it.

 

[Winston T. Boogie]

This is the DVD boxset I have of it.

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I looked at that. On the Amazon page it said that set was made on demand, so I assumed DVD-R, or are they pressed discs, Robert?

 

[Robert Crawford]

I looked at that. On the Amazon page it said that set was made on demand, so I assumed DVD-R, or are they pressed discs, Robert?

I don't know I bought the box set ten years ago in 2013. The discs still play fine.