Published
Burbank, CA : Warner Bros. Home Entertainment, [2009].
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (523 min.) : sound, black and white and color ; 4 3/4 in.
Notes
General Note
Title from container.
General Note
Fort Apache is suggested by the story "Massacre" by James Warner Bellah. The searchers is based on the novel by Alan LeMay. Rio Bravo is based on a short story by B.H. McCampbell. The cowboys is based on a novel by William Dale Jennings.
General Note
Originally produced as individual motion pictures in 1948 - 1972.
General Note
Special features: Commentary by director, Peter Bogdanovich ; featurette on Monument Valley: John Ford country ; theatrical trailers ; Director, John Carpenter and historian/critic, Richard Schickel ; John Wayne movie trailer gallery ; featurettes, The cowboys: together again and The breaking of boys and the making of men ; theatrical trailer.
Creation/Production Credits
Fort Apache: Cinematography, Archie Stout ; musical score, Richard Hageman ; art direction, James Basevi.
Creation/Production Credits
The searchers: Photography, Winton C. Hoch ; editor, Jack Murray ; music, Max Steiner.
Creation/Production Credits
Rio Bravo: Director of photography, Russell Harlan ; film editor, Folmar Blangsted ; music composed by Dimitri Tiomkin ; lyrics by Paul Francis Webster.
Creation/Production Credits
The cowboys: Music by John Williams ; director of photography, Robert Surtees ; production designer, Philip Jefferies ; costume designer, Anthea Sylbert ; film editor, Neil Travis.
Participants/Performers
Fort Apache: John Wayne, Henry Fonda, Shirley Temple, Pedro Armendariz, Ward Bond, George O'Brien, Victor McLaglen, Anna Lee, Irene Rich, Dick Foran, Guy Kibbee, Grant Withers, Mae Marsh, Mae Marsh, Hank Worden, John Agar.
Participants/Performers
The searchers: John Wayne, Jeffrey Hunter, Vera Miles, Ward Bond, Natalie Wood, Henry Brandon, Olive Carey, Harry Carey, Jr., Hank Worden, Pippa Scott, Lana Wood, Pat Wayne.
Participants/Performers
Rio Bravo: John Wayne, Dean Martin, Ricky Nelson, Angie Dickinson, Walter Brennan, Ward Bond, John Russell, Pedro Gonzalez-Gonzalez, Estelita Rodriguez, Claude Akins, Malcolm Atterbury, Harry Carey, Jr.
Participants/Performers
The cowboys; John Wayne, Roscoe Lee Browne, Bruce Dern, Colleen Dewhurst, Slim Pickens, Lonny Chapman, Charles Tyner, Robert Carradine, A Martinez.
Description
Fort Apache: a cavalry officer's by-the-book tactics and ignorance of the western frontier cause him to lead his men into a fatal Apache ambush.
Description
The searchers: a Civil War veteran spends five years on the trail of a Comanche raiding party that kidnapped his dead brother's daughter.
Description
Rio Bravo: a Texas border sheriff fights off hired gunmen to keep a murderer in custody.
Description
The cowboys: a rancher is deserted by his regular cattle drivers for the gold mines and has to hire children for his crew.
System Details
DVD, region 1, full frame and widescreen presentations, enhanced for widescreen TVs; Dolby digital mono., Dolby digital 5.1 surround.
Language
In English or dubbed French (The searchers and Rio Bravo only) with optional English, French, or Spanish (on Fort Apache and The searchers only); closed-captioned.
Awards
National Film Registry selection, 1989 (The searchers).
Awards
National Film Registry selection, 2014 (Rio Bravo).