Off The Bookshelf How The West Was Won [Blu-ray] [1963] Search DVD

Bookmark the site

Return to Homepage

US Shopping
UK Shopping

DVD : Search

page 1 of 23
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20

Search DVD - select a category

1.The Quiet Man (John Wayne) [1952] starring: John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara, Victor McLaglen, Barry Fitzgerald, Ward Bond directed by: John Ford June 05, 2006
Average Rating: >>More Details		List Price: £9.99 Off The Bookshelf's Price: £4.98 You Save: £5.01 (50%) Prices subject to change. Used Price: £1.50
After watching this DVD I believe the comment rating it with only two stars on grounds of the poor video quality is not fair. Image and sound might not be the best possible ones - this is not a digital remastered picture -but they are fairly good. On the other hand, it is an excellent feature with great actors.

2.How The West Was Won [1963] starring: Carroll Baker, James Stewart, Eli Wallach, John Wayne, Richard Widmark directed by: Henry Hathaway, John Ford, George Marshall September 29, 2008
Average Rating: >>More Details		List Price: £15.99 Off The Bookshelf's Price: £9.98 You Save: £6.01 (38%) Prices subject to change. Used Price:
What a fantastic print we now have of this film since the original cinerama has now been restored and the three joins of the original can no longer be seen. Finally the film can be seen in glorious depth and colour with both images in the foreground and background in crystal clarity. A fantastic commentary is also added by filmmaker David Strohmaier, Director of Cinerama, Inc. John Sitting, Film Historian Rudy Behlemer, Music Historian Jon Burlingame and Stuntman Loren James which throws so much new light on the making of the movie. For those who have never seen the film; sit back and enjoy. For those who have seen the film many times on TV or video, and longed for the day.....welcome for the first time to ... Read More:

3.The Grapes Of Wrath [1940] starring: Henry Fonda, John Carradine, Jane Darwell directed by: John Ford April 18, 2005
Average Rating: >>More Details		List Price: £12.99 Off The Bookshelf's Price: £5.97 You Save: £7.02 (54%) Prices subject to change. Used Price:
suffering defines the human spirit of survival-true-and here steinbeck was giving a simple message -survival is for the fittest in any civilization whether democratic or fascist,here the oklahoma dustbowl is the land of dispossessed and their suffering is the message to the fulfillment of their broken dreams ,poverty can be a curse and it is restrictwed not only to africa but white american kids dying of kwashiorkor secondary to malnutrition. ford gets the steinbeck message across with simplicity and the materialism is not crticised just observed as a reality while the people are evicted from ancestral homes and they die and starve on route 66. the movie is sentimental ,emotional and intelligent all at the same time ... Read More:

4.How Green Was My Valley [1941] starring: Walter Pidgeon, Maureen O'Hara, Roddy McDowall, Donald Crisp, Sara Allgood directed by: John Ford April 18, 2005
Average Rating: >>More Details		List Price: £12.99 Off The Bookshelf's Price: £4.97 You Save: £8.02 (62%) Prices subject to change. Used Price: £3.50
i bought this for my granny and she just loved it she has been looking 4 it for ages and i found it here on amazon and u would have thought all her christmases had come at once when i handed it to her ....

5.The Searchers [1956] starring: John Wayne, Jeffrey Hunter, Vera Miles, Natalie Wood, Ward Bond directed by: John Ford June 19, 2006
Average Rating: >>More Details		List Price: £15.99 Off The Bookshelf's Price: £4.98 You Save: £11.01 (69%) Prices subject to change. Used Price: £3.99
It is hard to review a film that has been examined by critics in such detail over the years. Film is a very personal thing and it is for this reason I feel I should record my thoughts. My very first memories of film were of watching "The Searchers" as a small child many years ago. In particular I recall seeing John Wayne lifting a very young Natalie Wood up in that great purging of the dark side scene at the end of the film. I was mesmerised by the scenery and the great screen prescence of John Wayne, who strode the film like a colossus. A very dark colossus it has to be said. Does it still stand up under scrutiny after all these years. The answer is a resounding yes although I can see the small flaws now which through rose tinted spectacles I missed in the past. ... Read More:

6.Fort Apache (John Wayne) [1948] starring: Henry Fonda, Guy Kibbee, Pedro Armendariz Jr., Irene Rich, John Wayne directed by: John Ford June 05, 2006
Average Rating: >>More Details		List Price: £9.99 Off The Bookshelf's Price: £4.98 You Save: £5.01 (50%) Prices subject to change. Used Price: £5.00
This is the first film which uses the US Cavalry as the background/set (as much as Monumental Valley) for telling us a typical John Ford story, there are the values of decency and common sense and the very important sense of humor in one side and bigotry and stupidity in the other... and that on the same side (meaning life in the regiment which is a metaphor of a rigid society)... confronted against the Indians who as usual in early Ford films just plays the danger OUTSIDE... Filmed in black&white in the exceptional way of the master it has passed with honors the terrible true test of time and has become a classic. The script is what you can expect, but mainly is a confrontation between the martinet colonel (from the East) played convincingly by Henry Fonda ... Read More:

7.She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (John Wayne) [1949] starring: John Wayne, Joanne Dru, John Agar, Ben Johnson, Harry Carey Jr. directed by: John Ford June 05, 2006
Average Rating: >>More Details		List Price: £9.99 Off The Bookshelf's Price: £4.98 You Save: £5.01 (50%) Prices subject to change. Used Price:
This is not going to be a diatribe against the puzzling nominations and awards of the academy... Just let me say John Wayne and John Ford deserved it many times over. Once this out of my chest... the second (of the "Cavalry Trilogy" and the only one in color) film dedicated to the US cavalry (which in fact is a recurrent theme of the director... see my review of "Fort Apache")... This time the main (and secondary played by Victor McLaglen) characters are both waiting for retirement for the Army... and have to do a last patrol... from there on... duty, decency and common sense take care of the script. In parallel runs a love affair between the first lieutenant and the commandant niece which is also pretended by the second lieutenant... son of a general and ... Read More:

8.John Wayne - John Ford Collection - Stagecoach/Fort Apache/She Wore A Yellow Ribbon/Rio Grande/The Quiet Man starring: John Wayne directed by: John Ford November 06, 2006
Average Rating: >>More Details		List Price: £29.99 Off The Bookshelf's Price: £23.98 You Save: £6.01 (20%) Prices subject to change. Used Price: £14.98
This is not going to be a diatribe against the puzzling nominations and awards of the academy... Just let me say John Wayne and John Ford deserved it many times over. Once this out of my chest... the second (of the "Cavalry Trilogy" and the only one in color) film dedicated to the US cavalry (which in fact is a recurrent theme of the director... see my review of "Fort Apache")... This time the main (and secondary played by Victor McLaglen) characters are both waiting for retirement for the Army... and have to do a last patrol... from there on... duty, decency and common sense take care of the script. In parallel runs a love affair between the first lieutenant and the commandant niece which is also pretended by the second lieutenant... son of a general and ... Read More:

9.Man Who Shot Liberty Valance [1962] starring: James Stewart, John Wayne, Vera Miles, Lee Marvin, Edmond O'Brien directed by: John Ford June 06, 2005
Average Rating: >>More Details		List Price: £12.99 Off The Bookshelf's Price: £5.97 You Save: £7.02 (54%) Prices subject to change. Used Price: £3.50
john wayne,john ford and james stewart are 3 master craftsmen of the western filmvaults.they come together here in this great little offering,stewart plays a lawyer who arrives at a small mid-west town ,wayne plays the local gunman .the part of liberty valance is played by another great lee marvin,valance is an horrible man who terrorise's most of the town ,everybody bar wayne is terrified of him ,when he see's stewart he take's an instant dislike and tries to force him out of town but stewart is a stuborn man and will not leave.it finally ends in a gunfight between stewart a dishwashing lawyer who can hardly fire a gun and vallance a notorius killer ,stewart manages to kill valance and is known as the man who shot liberty valance and goes on to make a top congressman ,but ... Read More:

10.How The West Was Won [Blu-ray] [1963] starring: Carroll Baker, James Stewart, Eli Wallach, John Wayne, Richard Widmark directed by: Henry Hathaway, John Ford, George Marshall September 29, 2008
Average Rating: >>More Details		List Price: £24.99 Off The Bookshelf's Price: £17.98 You Save: £7.01 (28%) Prices subject to change. Used Price:
'How the West was Won' was the forerunner of widescreen cinema and was originally shot as a cinerama (curved screen) movie. Warner have made an excellent job of creating a widescreen letterbox transfer (without the three-panel vertical line joins) of this classic western from 1963 which features a myriad of screen giants such as Gregory Peck, Carrol Baker, James Stewart, Lee J Cobb, Karl Malden, John Wayne, George Peppard, Henry Fonda, Richard Widmark and Debbie Reynolds, amongst others. Like the more recent 'Deadwood', this movie was the work of more than one director (Henry Hathaway, John Ford and George Marshall in this case) and is essentially split into three historical periods whilst also following the fate of one particular family from beginning to end. The cinematography ... Read More:

page 1 of 23
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20

Off The Bookshelf.co.uk gives you a unique shopping experience, you can find all the DVD products you like within a few minutes online, locate the latest charting CD's, DVD's & Games, read DVD reviews on the bestselling DVD Books and DVD products. All DVD are available to buy Used (at a greater saving) or New (at a great discounted RRP). Add the DVD items you would like to your shopping basket, pay securely online and we send these products to be delivered to your door. We take great pride in being able to offer you the great savings partnering with Amazon, offering you cheaper prices than the high street retailers, we have thousands of discounts on all the the DVD's you can buy off the shelf and hope you find the website easy to use.

Thanks for visiting and browsing Off The Bookshelf.co.uk

In association with Amazon.co.uk

SME-WS
HolidayHavens - Holiday Rental Accommodation