John Wayne: Film Collection

Others are correct - the box packaging is poor in terms of you stick each DVD into tight cardboard pockets and I imagine this may scratch the DVDs. Plus, if not careful, the paper sleeves will likely rip over time. However, the cardboard packaging otherwise looks somewhat attractive. Here's the kicker though - the movies are fantastic. As others have noted, I've never seen Red River before but "Wow!" it is one of the best movies I've ever seen old or new. So well written and directed and John Wayne especially Montgomery Clift do a superb job of acting. Many other movies are very entertaining too. This is a MUST buy.Jan 2019 UPDATE: BEWARE!!! the newer BluRay version of this does NOT have all the movies the DVD version has. For example, the Bluray version does not have Red River which is one of the best movies I've ever seen. Kind of a rip off that they removed it. When I bought this a few years ago, all they had was the DVD set on Amazon. When I wrote the review, that is all there was as well. But apparently Amazon carelessly just moves all the reviews from the DVD set over to the new Bluray set when the Bluray version comes out. So, my review above is now very misleading if you are buying the Bluray version and not the DVD version. Personally, I'd rather buy the DVD version ( as I did) and not miss out on some of the movie - especially Red River.

this had a lot of his good movies

This is a really fine boxset with a couple caveats. The Longest Day has some DNR in it. It's not completely wasted but it's close. The other films range from decent to excellent transfers.Excellent clarity and grain structure: The Comancheros, The Undefeated, North To Alaska, and The Barbarian and the Geisha.Mediocre to decent transfer: The Big Trail, Horse Soldiers--The Big Trail at least was never in great condition to begin with.Needs major improvement: Sadly, The Longest Day comes from the time of the first version of Patton, where studios were experimenting with DNR. The image has decent detail, but the grain is gone and the film looks too soft and plain. A 4K transfer here would make the film look amazing. Way too many pasty faces in this one.Overall a fine set well worth your money. It's on sale for 20 dollars at times. Whenever they do remaster The Longest Day I will just put it in the case I guess.

You will not find a better deal to upgrade your John Wayne collection with the Blu-ray versions of:The Big TrailThe Barbarian and the GeishaThe Horse SoldiersNorth to AlaskaThe ComancherosThe Longest DayThe UndefeatedAt about $35.00 currently that's around $5 a Blu-ray. The seven films are representative of the Duke's career and include some of his most entertaining movies. I don't see how any John Wayne fan can knock this offering. The packaging for the Blu-rays is great. The case is sturdy and each movie is on it's own spindle with seprate holder. No cardboard...no slip sleeves. It'll keep for many a year to come and it beats the heck out of buying the movies individually. So what are you waiting for????

A fantastic to get some of John Wayne's best and some of his earliest for a very decent price and in blu-ray to boot. He's still high on my list as most popular actors of the last century. This set has an amazing variety across a wide spectrum of his movies. I love "North to Alaska" the most, but "The Longest Day" is a great movie of historical value---hey, I love them all. Also on the list is: THE BIG TRAIL, RED RIVER, LEGEND OF THE LOST, THE BARBARIAN AND THE GEISHA (first time on DVD), THE HORSE SOLDIERS, THE ALAMO, THE COMANCHEROS, and THE UNDEFEATED

The movies in the blu-ray set are packaged fine and look good, however do not be confused by the reviews for the DVD set. The Blu-ray set only has the following movies:The Big TrailThe Barbarian and the GeishaThe Horse SoldiersNorth to AlaskaThe ComancherosThe Longest DayThe UndefeatedYou will NOT get Red River, Legend of the Lost, or The Alamo. The set is good, but I was disappointed in the absence of those films. At the current price, it is not as good a deal as I had hoped.

I grew up watching Western Movies and have been addicted to them for ages. John Wayne (Marion Mitchell Morrison) movies were always a favorite as you always knew that when good vs. evil the outcome was always (well, mostly) for the good. The white hat vs. black hat thing. Obviously there are much better movie critics out there!My point is that I even (still) enjoy his old B movies and now have this collection in our DVD Movie Library. But the packaging is horrible. Fortunately, I have a DVD, CD polisher that took out most of the scratches caused by the cardboard packaging. I then put the DVDs into paper sleeves for long term storage.Good value!

I am not going to review the films in this set, it has been done by many others (better than I could have done) under each film's title. This review is for the package design. Once again I bought a new set of dvds that had all the discs jammed into cardboard pockets that are not lined with anything to protect the data side and all discs had some sort of scratches or scuff marks. When will the STUDIO HEADS that control package design listen to their customers? Bought this set to get the Barbarian and the Geisha and it had more scratches than any of the others. Also there is no information on the box or inner sleeves to let the buyer know which films are widescreen or which films have any extra features. The only good thing with the package design is the 7 nice pictures on the cardboard pages of the disc sleeves. Amazon should have posted an image of what the inside packaging looks like, showing the discs in their pockets, to inform potential buyers. At present I am watching the Barbarian and the Geisha and so far it has played just fine, and it is in widescreen, with good bright colors and a clear picture ( not fuzzy or grainy- but I am watching it on a small screen. If this film plays all the way through with no problems I will keep the set, I already have most of the others in some form or other, if it does not play then of course I will have to return it.