AMC Westerns: Utah Trail/Riders of the Rockies dvd movie.|
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List Price: $4.99 Our Price: $4.99 Features • Color • DVD-Video • NTSC In Theaters : 1938 DVD Release : 16 August, 2005 |
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| ♥♥♥♥♥ | Cantankerous Tex and Everyone's Here |
| The Utah Trail
Yep, it sure is unusual to see Tex in a cantankerous mood, but it's for a reason - he's pretending he's the Pecos Kid, notorious outlaw. His usual lovable personality eventually comes through, though. It starts off with Tex and his two wonderfully goofy pals, Ananias and Peewee sitting on top of a swaying boxcar singing a song. The train is real and they are really on it on an obviously old track. That's the way old trains used to move. No made-up scene here. Charlie King is back again telling Tex he doesn't like the look of him. They're into a fist fight within 6 minutes of the opening credits. Of course, they have a bigger fight later on. These two always seemed to have a good time fighting. There are some songs with memorable lines. In one, Tex is seranading his hoss, White Flash who has a real good time mugging for the camera. That's just what it looks like. A line: "I'm a mighty good hoss with a mighty good boss, I love to be a-lopin'". Fash looks kinda lopey in the scene, too. I love little things like that in these movies. Tex does another jailhouse lament while in the hoosgow with his pals. A line - "Boys there is a moral to this tragic tale, just before election you can't get out of jail". Truer political words were never spoken so watch it all you bad boy wannabes. Riders of the Rockies Horace Murphy, Snub Pollard, Charlie King, Yakima Canutt and Earl Dwire all in one movie. You can't beat a supporting cast like that! And Louise Stanley as well. She's such a sweatheart when she smiles you'll fall in love with her immediately. Tex gets to complain again about one of his pal's complaining. He must have liked doing that. I'm sure it was part of his philosophy of life - life is grand if you just let it be that way, so quit complaining and enjoy what you've got. Tex is such a lucky guy to be able to ride off with Louise and his two pals at the end. Surely I haven't given anything away here, it's a B-Western - you know that's how it's going to end up. Just like in real life if you really want it to be, n'est ce pas? There's another great barroom brawl between Tex and Charlie. These two really go at it again. No stand-ins here. They did it all themselves. I sure would like to have been around when they filmed those scenes. Yak, king of the stunt men who got a well deserved oscar for his work in Ben Hur, obviously had a hand in how the brawl was filmed. Fist fights just didn't look very good until he came along. I think the punch-straight-at-the-camera was his invention. I love Tex's version of Home on the Range. The others are decent too. The songs in Tex's movies always seem like real cowboy songs to me, more so than in the other singing cowboys' movies. In fact Tex's movies always seem more real to me than most other B-Westerns. There are a number of exceptions to that, though. Nothing slick here. The reproduction on this DVD isn't the best, but certainly not the worst either. Well worth the price. I just love Tex. He had such a wonderful personalilty. Gospel |
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