3 Godfathers Gets Warner Archive Blu-ray

John Ford’s 1948 remake, 3 Godfathers, made its way onto Blu-ray in late March after getting a release through the Warner Archive Collection. I have to admit that I went into the film knowing it was a Ford/Wayne Western. What I didn’t know was that it was a retelling of the Biblical Three Wise Men tale. I can’t really tell you much about that because I’m most familiar with the Tanakh and its contents. Regardless,…

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Rio Bravo Arrives On 4K Ultra HD

Rio Bravo gets the 4K Ultra HD upgrade after the film’s 4K restoration premiered earlier this year at the TCM Classic Film Festival. Working in partnership with The Film Foundation, Rio Bravo was restored and remastered by Warner Bros. Post Production Creative Services: Motion Picture Imaging and Post Production Sound. The Film Foundation, launched by Martin Scorsese in 1990, has restored more than 900 films. A small-town Texan sheriff, John T. Chance (John Wayne) arrests…

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How the West Was Won: An Epic Western at 60 Years

How the West Was Won is an epic Western that follows the Prescott family bloodline during a 50-year period stretching 1839-1889. Spencer Tracy narrates the Oscar-winning film through its five main segments and an impressive epilogue showing the transformation of the West into the early 1960s. In particular, we see the Hoover Dam, the Four Level Interchange in Downtown Los Angeles, and the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco. It’s kind of like the ending…

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The Horse Soldiers Gets Brand New 4K Master

The Horse Soldiers gets a brand new 4K master as John Ford’s latter era Civil War Western gets a Blu-ray release from Kino Lorber. I’m hesitant to call it the beginning of the end. But in reading about the death of a stuntman and Ford getting getting up there in age, you can’t help but wonder. The film’s release wasn’t anything to write home about. Throw John Wayne and William Holden in the same film…

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The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance on 4K Ultra HD

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance is the 31st title to join the Paramount Presents line and does so on a beautiful 4K Ultra HD disc. John Ford is one of the greatest filmmakers of all time when it comes to the moments between “action” and “cut.” This is one of his later period films and it teams up two of the biggest stars of the era. However, it would come to be the best…

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