Classic Westerns, 10-Movie Collection: When Daltons Rode / The Virginian / Whispering Smith / The Spoilers / Comanche Territory / Sierra / Kansas Raiders / Tomahawk / Albuquerque / Texas Rangers Ride Again

Universal did an awesome job on these movies and putting them in a wonderful collection. There isn't any special features and there is only English audio and no other language and subtitles. There are three disks with four on the first and three each on the last two disks. All movies are in Full frame format. Four of these films were also released as DVD-R and now you can get them as straight DVD with no MOD. All movies quality are great and I did compare to the other releases and I can't see any difference. "Sierra" and "The Virginian" were part of a TCM Vault box sets. UPDATE-03/16/15 Universal has just released a 8-Movie Western Collection exclusively for Walmart and contains three Universal Vault movies and I would recommend that two, this way Universal can see their Western sales go up and hopefully make more. Here are the movies included: When the Daltons Rode (1940/B&W/81mins) -Randolph Scott, Kay Francis, Brian Donlevy, George Bancroft, Broderick Crawford, Andy Devine; Directed by George Marshall Texas Rangers Ride Again (1940/B&W/68mins) -John Howard, Ellen Drew, Akim Tamiroff, May Robson, Broderick Crawford; Directed by James Hogan The Spoilers (1942/B&W/87mins) -Marlene Dietrich, Randolph Scott, John Wayne, Margaret Lindsay, Harrey Carey; Directed by Ray Enright The Virginian (1948/color/90mins) -Joel McCrea, Brian Donlevy, Sonny Tufts, Barbara Britton, Tom Tully, Fay Bainter; Directed by Stuart Gilmore Albuquerque (1948/color/90mins) -Randolph Scott, Barbara Britton, George "Gabby" Hayes, Lon Chaney Jr., George Cleveland; Directed by Ray Enright Whispering Smith (1949/color/88mins) Alan Ladd, Robert Preston, Brenda Marshall, Donald Crisp, Fay Holden, Frank Faylen; Directed by Leslie Fenton Comanche Territory (1950/color/76mins) -Maureen O'Hara, MacDonald Carey, Will Geer, Charles Drake; Directed by George Sherman Sierra (1950/color/83mins) -Audie Murphy, Wanda Hendrix, Burl Ives, Dean Jagger; Directed by Alfred E. Green Kansas Raiders (1950/color/80mins) -Audie Murphy, Brian Donlevy, Marguerite Chapman, Scott Brady, Tony Curtis; Directed by Ray Enright Tomahawk (1951/color/82mins) -Van Heflin, Yvonne DeCarlo, Alex Nicol; Directed by George Sherman Overall this is an excellent of Westerns to add to your collection and if you have any of these already this is a great item to free up some DVD space. I would and I have recommended this. Universal did a great job that I wish they would do another one.

I purchased this 3-disc collection to get Whispering Smith, an Alan Ladd film. For $10 I picked up that film and nine more. I've watched the first 3 on Disc 1 and have to say that, regardless of where they fall in the Hollywood production caste system, each one of those first films has been really satisfying. Akim Tamiroff's Mio Pio alone is worth the small price of admission. That man could flat out steal a scene! He has abundant successful opportunities to do so in Texas Rangers Ride Again, a film that also features a very early in the career unbilled 'performance' by Robert Ryan, no less. Broderick Crawford? I love the guy! Why I'm picking on TRRA, it's because I really got into the scene set-up and pacing of this 67 minute gem. You can really feel the difference when you don't have a 7th, 8th or 9th reel to work with. But I thought they did a masterful job with this one. I have to believe this was a film Ernest Hemingway would have enjoyed. But, the other two of the first three have been terrific, too. I just finished watching The Spoilers before sitting down to blather a bit here. Loved it. And loved When The Daltons Rode. Bottom line is for $10 you're going to really like what you get; even if you only find one or two to like. I think you'll find more than one or two, though. Try it!

Great movie

First of all the picture quality for all 10 is very good to excellent. The three oldest are in black and white and are the first 3 on disc 1 'When the Daltons Rode' ( 1940) has plenty of action, maybe to much. 3.5 'Texas Rangers Ride Again' (1940) surprisingly good. 4 . 'The Spoilers' (1942) stars Scott and young Wayne and do they ever have the biggest bar fist fight I think ever filmed. For that alone 5 stars. ' The Virginian' (!946) in color. Starring Joel MacCrea in one of the greatest westerns ever filmed. 5 stars. Disc 2 westerns are all in color. 'Albuquerque' (1948) one Scotts best westerns. 5 stars 'W hispering Smith' (1949) Alan Ladd- pre Shane and very good. 5 stars. 'Comanche Territory' (1950) MacDonald Carey. With a great Will Geer who steals every scene he is in. 4.5 stars Disc 3 is the worst sad to say. Sierra ( 1950) with Audi Murphy. What can I say Burl Ives sings folk songs and.... 2.5 Kansas Raiders' (1950) Murphy plays young Jesse James with conscience. Duh? But lots of action. 3.5 stars 'Tomahawk' (1951) with Van Heflin. pretty good surprise and early sensitivity toward plight of Indian. 4.5 stars. So, overall a dam good set of westerns in very decent picture quality. I enjoyed 8 out of 10. And at asking price a steal. Highly recommended.

Fun gift for an elderly family member, could remember seeing nearly all of those films in the theater way back when.

Take my advice if you enjoy westerns of the 40's and 50's (B westerns included) and buy this dvd collection from Universal. I make this recommendation based on: 1) You get ten westerns, many shot on location, with Utah, Arizona, and New Mexico representing the American West. The location shooting provides splendid scenery for the stories these films tell. 2) You get a mix of B program westerns and some "top of the bill" films like "The Spoilers", "Whispering Smith", and "The Virginian". In my opinion, all the movies are entertaining, relatively fast paced (none of the films are over 90 minutes long), and fun! 3) Most important to me, Universal's Home Entertainment division has used excellent source material. These dvds are superior to other bargain films in their visual and audio presentations. No pops and hisses on the sound tracks and no washed out black and white or faded color presentations. In my opinion (again), the films have got to look and sound as good (if not better) than they did in theatrical runs (and that was 70 years ago for some of these films). I was mesmerized by even the least of these movies (for me, "When the Daltons Rode"/"Texas Rangers Ride Again) by the quality of the images and and sound. The dvd gives these westerns an immediacy that was startling. (I viewed these films on a Samsung 2010, 46" television and an Opp 83 Blu Ray/DVD Player) 4) Finally, these 10 very entertaining, top flight presentations cost 10 DOLLARS!!! One buck a movie. One film has been released on the previous Western Classics, Vol.2 Universal 4 film dvd (Kansas Raiders) and "Whispering Smith" and "Albuqerque" were released as stand alone dvds back about 10 years ago. I had purchased those dvds. I still feel I got one of the best dvd deals ever and I began buying the little discs in 1998! Thanks for reading

Great choice

Reslly enjoying these old cowboy flucs. So many big stars got their starts in these 10 films. Great price, worth more.

You may ask your self - which deal is better? to buy Classic Westerns: 10 Movie Collection or 20 Movie Collection? The right answer is : Classic Westerns: 10 Movie Collection as this collection is just like gold. I only didn't like two or three movies. However, the rest of the movies are sooo good and amazing picture quality that I couldn't believe it due to how old these movies are and also compared to typical 20 Movie Collection with very few good movies and poor image quality.

Have watched the first nine of the set. Almost all great. The eye-wateringly awful depiction of native Americans in Comanche Territory will either make you cry or laugh out loud. Apart from that they are all rarely seen classics. Well worth the investment.

"When the Daltons Rode (1940/B&W/81mins)" lohnt sich der Kauf. Es ist so ziemlich der beste Western, den ich bisher sah, mit allem, was man in einem guten Western sehen möchte. Die Brüder werden zu Kriminellen, überfallen Banken, usw., Spannung, beste Unterhaltung. Allerdings konnte ich den Film wegen des Regionalcodes nur über PC (kostenlose VLC-DVD-Player-Software) und Verbindungskabel zum Fernseher anschauen. Die anderen Filme habe ich noch nicht gesehen. Wie gesagt: Schon wegen des ersten Films lohnt der Kauf.

This is an amazingly good set of well restored tip-top Westerns, seven in glorious colour and three in good black and white. I've already watched the two that I especially wanted and taken a look through the others and am very pleased with what I see. The two I've watched are: WHISPERING SMITH - this is in superb colour, with Alan Ladd looking particularly young and handsome, (a bit like his famous Shane character), playing a quietly spoken railroad detective on the trail of robbers, including his former friend, played sturdily by Robert Preston. It has a good storyline and direction, with terrific outdoor shots and some exquisite sets. A real joy! TOMAHAWK - This one is directed by George Sherman with impressive acting from Van Heflin as an army scout trying to unite the white settlers with the Sioux. Alex Nicol is equally impressive as a blood thirsty 'pretty-boy' cavalry officer doing just the opposite. The Montana scenery is particularly gorgeous, with lots of wide open spaces consisting of lush green plains, broken up by small inland cliffs, which makes for some skilled and intricate riding scenes. It's based on the true story of the Battle for Powder River which took place in 1876. UPDATE: I've watched all the films now, and they range from pretty good to excellent.

Great old movies and great discs. Not a single skip or stall on any of these