``The John Ford Collection'' on DVD June 6 from Warner Home Video.BURBANK, Calif. -- On June 6th, Warner Home Video Warner Home Video is the home video unit of Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Group, a division of Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc. It was founded in 1978 as WCI Home Video (for Warner Communications, Inc.). It was re-named Warner Home Video in 1980. will celebrate one of the true masters of American cinema with the release of "The John Ford Collection." Ford is perhaps best known for his Westerns and collaborations with John Wayne, whom WHV WHV Wilhelmshaven (Northern Germany, Headquarters of the German Navy) WHV Warner Home Video WHV Woodchuck Hepatitis Virus WHV Working Holiday Visa WHV Westdeutscher Hockey-Verband (West German hockey association) is also honoring with another collection on the same release date. However, this Ford collection runs the gamut of genres and shows the diversity and genius of John Ford at his most impressive. Featured will be the DVD DVD: see digital versatile disc. DVD in full digital video disc or digital versatile disc Type of optical disc. The DVD represents the second generation of compact-disc (CD) technology. debuts of five classic titles. "The Lost Patrol," "The Informer Informer Battus revealed theft by Mercury; turned to touchstone. [Gk. and Rom. Myth.: Walsh Classical, 47] Cenci, Count Francesco old libertine ravishes his daughter Beatrice. [Br. Lit. " and "Cheyenne Autumn" will be available individually for $19.97 SRP SRP - A data link layer protocol. . "Mary of Scotland" and "Sergeant Rutledge" will be exclusive to the five-disc boxed set which will sell for $59.92 SRP. Ford is best known for his incredible series of classic westerns ("Stagecoach stagecoach, heavy, closed vehicle on wheels, usually drawn by horses, formerly used to transport passengers and goods overland. Throughout the Middle Ages and until about the end of the 18th cent. ," "The Searchers"); however, his impressive four Best Director Academy Awards(R) ("The Informer," "The Grapes of Wrath," "How Green Was My Valley," and "The Quiet Man") were for work outside the western genre and remain somewhat overlooked today. "The Informer," for which John Ford earned his first Best Director Academy Award and star Victor McLaglen Victor Andrew de Bier Everleigh McLaglen (December 10, 1886[1] - November 7,1959) was an English boxer and Academy Award winning actor, who later became a naturalized American citizen. Biography McLaglen was born in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England. took home a Best Actor statuette, makes its DVD debut, restored and remastered from the original camera negative. It's included in the Collection along with political drama "The Lost Patrol" (1934) also starring Victor McLaglen, Boris Karloff, and restored to its original theatrical release running time, plus the poignant and impressive epic "Mary of Scotland," which starred Katharine Hepburn and Fredric March. Rounding out the collection is "Cheyenne Autumn," a 1964 widescreen epic, restored to its full roadshow length and glory with a new 5.1 soundtrack. It turned out to be Ford's last Western which ranks as one of his most ambitious and moving works. And lastly is the cult favorite "Sergeant Rutledge," another landmark Western notable for exploring racism in the West, starring Woody Strode in the title role. Art can be downloaded at www.whvdirect.com |
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