Title from container. Jeremiah Johnson cast: Robert Redford, Will Geer, Allyn Ann McLerie, Stefan Gierasch, Charles Tyner, Delle Bolton. The train robbers cast: John Wayne, Ann-Margret, Rod Taylor, Ben Johnson, Christopher George, Bobby Vinton, Jerry Gatlin, Ricardo Montalban. The wild bunch cast: William Holden, Ernest Borgnine, Robert Ryan, Edmond O'Brien, Warren Oates, Jaime Sanchez, Ben Johnson, Emilio Fernandez, Strother Martin, L. Q. Jones, Albert Decker. McCabe & Mrs. Miller cast: Warren Beatty, Julie Christie, Rene Auberjonois. MCCabe & Mrs. Miller is based on the novel "McCabe" by Edmund Naughton. Special features: Disc 1, Side A: "The saga of Jeremiah Johnson" vintage featurette; theatrical trailer. Side B: "Working with a Western legend" featurette; "The Wayne train" featurette; John Wayne movie trailer gallery. -- Disc 2, Side A: Commentary by Peckinpah biographers/documentarians Nick Redman, Paul Seydor, Garner Simmons and David Weddle; Sam Peckinpah movie trailer gallery. Side B: Commentary by director Robert Altman and producer David Foster; vintage featurette; theatrical trailer.
Contents:
(1971 ; 121 min.). McCabe & Mrs. Miller /; a Robert Altman-David Foster production ; produced by David Foster and Mitchell Brower ; screenplay by Robert Altman and Brian McKay ; directed by Robert Altman ; (1972 ; 116 min.) -- Side B: The train robbers / a Batjac production ; produced by Michael Wayne ; written and directed by Burt Kennedy ; (1972 ; 92 min.). -- Disc 2, Side A: The wild bunch /; a Phil Feldman production ; produced by Phil Feldman ; story by Walon Green and Roy N. Sickner ; screenplay by Walon Green and Sam Peckinpah ; directed by Sam Peckinpah ; (1969 ; 145 min.) -- Side B: McCabe & Mrs. Miller /; a Robert Altman-David Foster production ; produced by David Foster and Mitchell Brower ; screenplay by Robert Altman and Brian McKay ; directed by Robert Altman ; (1971 ; 121 min.).
Summary:
Jeremiah Johnson: Jeremiah is an American soldier who goes west to escape the Mexican War and becomes a mountain man. He is taken in by an old trapper who teaches him how to survive. After unavoidably violating an Indian burial ground, he loses his new Indian wife and their adopted child to vengeance. A vendetta between him and the Crows ruins his idyllic life as a fur trapper. -- The train robbers: Mrs. Lowe is a beautiful widow who wants to clear her family's name by finding and returning the gold her husband stole. Three cowboy buddies sign on to help her. But where there's gold, there's sure to be trouble. -- The wild bunch: After a botched robbery attempt in Texas, Pike Bishop and his gang head across the Rio Grande and into Mexico. They are pursued by bounty hunters hired to prevent the gang from robbing the rail depot. Bishop's gang extend their time in Mexico when they meeet a Mexican general who wants them to rob a U.S. train carrying arms. -- McCabe & Mrs. Miller: John McCabe arrives in a young Pacific Northwest town to set up a whorehouse/tavern. Mrs. Miller, a professional madam, arrives soon after and offers to use her experience to help run the business, while sharing in the profits. The whorehouse thrives and mining deposits in the town attract a major corporation wants to buy out McCabe. He refuses, and his decision has major repercussions for Mrs. Miller, the town, and him.
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