John Wayne will be
getting the hi-def treatment on June 2 courtesy of Warner Bros. Home
Entertainment with the Blu-ray debut of a trio of his classic Westerns.
Available for the first
time in this format will be director Howard Hawks’ 1959 film release Rio
Bravo, which teamed John Wayne with an all-star cast that includes Dean
Martin, Angie Dickinson, Ricky Nelson, Ward Bond and Walter Brennan as Stumpy.
The Train Robbers, released in 1973, was written and directed by
Burt Kennedy and teamed John Wayne with Ann-Margret, the late Rod Taylor, Ben
Johnson, Bobby Vinton and Christopher George.
And lastly we have director
Andrew V. McLaglen’s 1973 film release of Cahill: U.S. Marshall, which saw
John Wayne in conflict with his young sons (played by Gary Grimes and Clay
O’Brien), with outlaw Abe Fraser (George Kennedy) exploiting this riff to his
deadly advantage.
These three John Wayne
Westerns will be available as individual SKUs (the SRP is set at $14.98 each)
or as part of a five-film Blu-ray collection titled John Wayne Westerns Film
Collection — the SRP is $54.98 and the other two films included in the
mix are Fort Apache and The Searchers (that works out to just
ten dollars for these two previously released John Wayne Westerns).
Lastly, June 2 is also
the street date for both DVD (three-discs) and Blu-ray (two-discs) sets of Falling
Skies: The Complete Fourth Season.
Bonus features include cast interviews and a Comic Con panel video
session.
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