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Where's the DVD?

posted 15 years ago by Dejael
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I fondly remember seeing this movie when it first came out in 1957 when I was 10 years old, at the Plaza Theater in Hawthorne, which at that time was Hawthorne's best kids-friendly theater. My parents would often drop us kids off there at noon and pick us up at 5 or 6 PM on Saturdays and we would spend the whole afternoon there watching a double feature, preview trailers, newsreels, travelogs and cartoons - usually two per double feature. This movie was a Saturday Matinee delight! I have often thought about this movie and wondered if it would ever turn up on TV, but I have never seen it on TV.

I haven't seen it since, and would love to. This is one of Audie Murphy's non-Universal westerns, and it really shines. I recall it being exciting, rousing, colorful, entertaining and having some pretty women in it defending a fort from Indians. I especially recall Kathryn Grant Crosby in it, she was so pretty, and in a couple of other movies I really enjoyed, "OPERATION MAD BALL" (1957) and of course, Ray Harryhausen's "7th VOYAGE OF SINBAD" (1958). She was Bing Crosby's wife. And Audie Murphy always did great in any movie he was in. He was one of my boyhood heroes, short of stature but long in speech and action.

Please, Columbia/Sony, where's the DVD?

Dejael

[–] DavidW1947 14 years ago

I also first went to see it at the age of ten in 1957, at the now long gone Broadway cinema in Stoke-on-Trent, England. I would also like to see it released on DVD. It has been shown a couple of times on Channel 4 here in the UK, but not for a few years now. I recorded it on video off air during one of those screenings, but I have no facilities for transferring the video onto a DVD-R, or I could easily send you a disc of it.

[–] Dejael 13 years ago

Thanks for the reply, DavidW1947, sorry I didn't mention California USA after the town's name I mentioned. Hawthorne is near Inglewood, where I grew up in the 1950s close to Los Angeles International Airport. The Plaza Theater in Hawthorne, California closed down in 1970, and was demolished. It used to have a big radio tower on top of it, like the tower in the RKO Radio Pictures logo.

I just saw this movie on Encore Westerns on my video system here in Burbank, California where I live now, and it was wonderful to see!

Hopefully, this title will be one that's selected for soon release on DVD by the Warner Archive, which now has a contract with Columbia/Sony Pictures for release of their classics from the 1930s to the 1970s.
TCM and Universal just released their Audie Murphy collection, and I'm sure many fans of Murphy, who had the honor of having the San Antonio, Texas VA Hospital named after him, would love to have a DVD of this classic film in their homes.

Dejael