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- Robert Harris
Truly.
I do not understand, in this era of digital monitors, flat panels and Blu-ray players, why some folks still insist on running main title sequences window-boxed. It makes no sense.
That is unless the transfer on WB's new Blu-ray of John Ford's Fort Apache, is about to reach the end of it's sale date.
While the main body of the film looks nice, with a pleasant gray scale, good blacks and nice resolution, the main title sequence looks like something that might have fallen out of the back half of the cow.
Really.
No resolution. Soft titles. I can't believe that this is all that's left of the sequence in the RKO inventory.
A few scratches are seen on occasion, but nothing untoward.
But that aside, let's get to the main event. Fort Apache was the first of a cavalry trilogy that began in 1948 with this film. It continued a year later, in Technicolor, with She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949), and ended a year later with Rio Grande.
John Wayne was in all three films. The veritable linchpin. As was Victor McLaglen -- when are we going to get one of the greatest films of the 1930s -- The Informer?
Three wonderful films. Now if we could get the other two on Blu-ray.
An important John Ford film. There are few that aren't.
Stars?
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A nice, but certainly not great Blu-ray of a wonderful John Ford film.
For those who need to hone up on their John Ford skills, I suggest two biographies.
Joseph McBrides Searching for John Ford: A Life, and Scott Eyman's Print the Legend, the Life and Times of John Ford.
Keep in mind that these are big books. Mr. Ford worked in film from 1914 until 1966. And turned out some of the best films that you'll ever see.
Recommended.
RAH
I do not understand, in this era of digital monitors, flat panels and Blu-ray players, why some folks still insist on running main title sequences window-boxed. It makes no sense.
That is unless the transfer on WB's new Blu-ray of John Ford's Fort Apache, is about to reach the end of it's sale date.
While the main body of the film looks nice, with a pleasant gray scale, good blacks and nice resolution, the main title sequence looks like something that might have fallen out of the back half of the cow.
Really.
No resolution. Soft titles. I can't believe that this is all that's left of the sequence in the RKO inventory.
A few scratches are seen on occasion, but nothing untoward.
But that aside, let's get to the main event. Fort Apache was the first of a cavalry trilogy that began in 1948 with this film. It continued a year later, in Technicolor, with She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949), and ended a year later with Rio Grande.
John Wayne was in all three films. The veritable linchpin. As was Victor McLaglen -- when are we going to get one of the greatest films of the 1930s -- The Informer?
Three wonderful films. Now if we could get the other two on Blu-ray.
An important John Ford film. There are few that aren't.
Stars?
Image 3 1/2
Audio 3 1/2
A nice, but certainly not great Blu-ray of a wonderful John Ford film.
For those who need to hone up on their John Ford skills, I suggest two biographies.
Joseph McBrides Searching for John Ford: A Life, and Scott Eyman's Print the Legend, the Life and Times of John Ford.
Keep in mind that these are big books. Mr. Ford worked in film from 1914 until 1966. And turned out some of the best films that you'll ever see.
Recommended.
RAH