Garv’s Pick of the Week: Five Tall Tales: Budd Boetticher & Randolph Scott at Columbia, 1957-1960 (Indicator)
For the release week of May 29th:
Garv’s Pick of the Week: Five Tall Tales: Budd Boetticher & Randolph Scott at Columbia, 1957-1960 [Blu-ray / Indicator]: Five of the seven Westerns made by the team of director Budd Boetticher and star Randolph Scott are collected in this Blu-ray box set. While this comes from the UK label Indicator, the set is region-free, so it will play in Blu-ray players worldwide. Included titles are The Tall T (1957), Decision at Sundown (1957), Buchanan Rides Alone (1958), Ride Lonesome (1959), and Comanche Station (1960). Hopefully, the remaing two films will get a Blu-ray upgrade in the near future.
Additional Titles of Interest —
Cold Turkey [Blu-ray / Olive Films]: The only feature film directed by Norman Lear satirizes the tobacco industry, advertising, the news media, politics, and American life in general. Dick Van Dyke leads a cast of comedy pros including Bob Newhart, Barnard Hughes, Vincent Gardenia, Jean Stapleton, Tom Posten, Edward Everett Horten, Bob Elliott, and Ray Goulding.
Au hasard Balthazar [Blu-ray / Criterion]: Robert Bresson’s masterpiece is a “hard watch” for animal lovers, but it is worth it. Just the thought of the film gives me a lump in my throat.
Midnight Cowboy [Blu-ray / Criterion]: Criterion is really trying to depress us this week.
The Man Who Watched Trains Go By [Blu-ray / ClassicFlix]: I’m unfamiliar with this one, but it stars Claude Rains, which is enough for me.
Odds Against Tomorrow [Blu-ray / Olive Films]: Many consider this the last film noir of the classic period.
Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song [Blu-ray + DVD / Vinegar Syndrome]: The film that started the Blacksploitation cycle gets a Blu-ray upgrade.
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