Searchers (Motion picture) Fort Apache (Motion picture) Rio Bravo (Motion picture) Cowboys (Motion picture)
Notes:
Title from container. The searchers: John Wayne, Jeffrey Hunter, Vera Miles, Ward Bond, Natalie Wood. Fort Apache: John Wayne, Henry Fonda, Shirley Temple, Pedro Armendariz, Ward Bond, George O'Brien, Victor McLaglen, Anna Lee, Irene Rich, Dick Foran, Guy Kibbee, Grant Withers, Mae Marsh, John Agar. Rio Bravo: John Wayne, Dean Martin, Ricky Nelson, Angie Dickinson, Walter Brennan, Ward Bond, John Russell, Pedro Gonzalez-Gonzalez, Estelita Rodriguez. The cowboys; John Wayne, Roscoe Lee Browne, Bruce Dern, Colleen Dewhurst. The searchers was originally produced as a motion picture in 1956. Fort Apache was originally produced as a motion picture in 1948. Rio Bravo was originally produced as a motion picture in 1959. The cowboys was originally produced as a motion picture in 1972. Special features: disc [1], side A. Commentary by director, Peter Bogdanovich; disc [1], side B. Featurette, Monument Valley: John Ford country; theatrical trailer; disc [2], side A. Director, John Carpenter and historian/critic, Richard Schickel; John Wayne movie trailer gallery; disc [2], side B. Featurettes, The cowboys: together again and The breaking of boys and the making of men; theatrical trailer.
Contents:
disc [1], side A. The searchers ; side B. Fort Apache -- disc [2], side A. Rio Bravo ; side B. The cowboys.
Summary:
In The searchers, a Civil War veteran spends five years on the trail of a Comanche raiding party that kidnapped his dead brother's daughter. In Fort Apache, a calvary officer whose by-the-book tactics and ignorance of the western frontier cause him to lead his men into a fatal Apache ambush. In Rio Bravo, a Texas border sheriff fights off hired gunmen to keep a murderer in custody. In The cowboys, a rancher is deserted by his regular cattle drivers for the gold mines.
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