Searchers / Wild Bunch / How the West Was Won (Triple-Feature) (2012)

A perfect blend for us "OLDS" who remember the parameters of GREAT entertainment! All three films merit four stars for action, plot, and exellent Blu-Ray transfers! This was premier Hollywood heyday when, (real ) talented actors of yesteryear exuded command screen presence and, gave the film voyeur his money's worth!

Reviewing the movies in this set is pointless you know what you are getting. I can say that on Blu Ray disc the image is stunning. Sound is good too but none of these are sonic tour de forces. If you are looking for the smile-box version of How the west was won you will need to purchase the 2 disc set. However if you are like me and simply happy to see this movie in pristine widescreen, you will not be disappointed. Tonally I do not think the Wild Bunch or the Searchers should be with HtWWW but there are a lot of similarities between these films. HtWWW is the beginning of the "western" era, the Searchers is kind of the middle and the Wild Bunch is absolutely the end of an era. I'm very pleased to have this as part of my collection.

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Here are three landmark Westerns, gathered together in a single package on BD. Each film has a disc all to itself. All three movies come up well on BD, though the sound could have used a little more restorative work.

"The Searchers" is presented in VistaVision (16x9 1:85:1). Colors are very good, though the sync seems to be off in some scenes between the picture and the voice track.

"The Wild Bunch" is the Widescreen Director's Cut version (16x9 2.4.1), and it looks impressive.

"How The West Was Won" is a Cinerama production presented in Widescreen Letterbox (16x9 2:89:1). Most of the 3-panel "join lines" of the Cinerama print for HTWWW have been effectively eliminated, though they are noticeable in any shots where the sky dominates the screen. They've also done some work to eliminate the feeling of the picture on the outer panels curving off the screen, though some scenes are beyond help in this respect.

I paid all of $16.99 for this set through amazon. Quite a bargain!

Recommended.

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Three of the greatest westerns of all time in Blue-ray! I feared that they would try to cram all three features onto one disc (like it was once done in the past). All three were of excellent viewing quality. And the sound, superb! In "How the West Was Won", the video and sound combined so that it seemed that I was in the pirate cave with Walter Brennan and James Stewart, or on the flatboat roaring uncontrollably down the river, or on the runaway train while George Peppard and Eli Wallach battled it in out on top of the load of logs. All for less than $12. I have recommended this to my younger brothers, but they just want to come over and watch it on my screen. When they walk outside in the morning, the birds stop their singing and say "cheap, cheap, cheap.."

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