New on Blu-ray: STRANGER ON HORSEBACK (1955) - Western Starring Joel McCrea

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Product Description: NEW 2K RESTORATION! Judge Thorne (Joel McCrea) arrives in a lawless town where feudal landowner Josiah Bannerman (John McIntire) rules with an iron fist. Thorne's search for justice leads him to investigate the unsolved killing of a man by Bannerman's son, forcing him to confront corruption and a deadly game of cat-and-mouse in a beautifully filmed Western set against Arizona's red rock country.

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New on Blu-ray: CATTLE DRIVE (1951) Starring Joel McCrea, Dean Stockwell and Chill Wills

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Product Description: One of star Joel McCrea’s (Border River) personal favorite films, Cattle Drive is a captivating, character-driven western that draws inspiration from Rudyard Kipling’s classic Captains Courageous. Chester Graham Jr. (Dean Stockwell in his final role as a child actor), the spoiled teenage son of a railroad tycoon, gets lost in the middle of the desert but is rescued by Dan Matthews (McCrea), a cattle herder on his way west. As they head out on the trail together, the young greenhorn soon gets an education in the value of hard work, camaraderie and survival skills from a posse of rough-and-tumble cowboys. Directed by multi-genre master Kurt Neumann (Secret of the Blue Room, Son of Ali Baba, The Fly) and co-starring Chill Wills (The Alamo), this charming coming-of-age tale of the Old West is terrific entertainment for the whole family!

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New on Blu-ray: WICHITA (1955) Starring Joel McCrea

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Product Description: Joel McCrea stars as former buffalo hunter and Western entrepreneur Wyatt Earp in this CinemaScope oater directed by the great Jacques Tourneur. When he arrives the wild frontier town of Wichita, Earp is reluctant to accept the lawman job offered to him, but when he does, his first action is to confiscate all firearms within his jurisdiction, forcing a confrontation between the lone marshal and all the gunslingers in the violent Western outpost. Co-starring Vera Miles and Lloyd Bridges, Wichita is a supreme action-packed Western classic.

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New on Blu-ray: BORDER RIVER (1954) Starring Joel McCrea and Yvonne De Carlo

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Product Description: Screen great Joel McCrea (Union Pacific, Ride the High Country) and the dazzling Yvonne De Carlo (Tomahawk, TV’s The Munsters) have a date with destiny in the powder-keg of the West, beyond the Border River. Desperately hoping to turn the tide of the Civil War, Confederate soldier Clete Mattson (McCrea) steals $2 million in gold bars from the Union and heads for the Mexican border town of Zona Libre, where he hopes to buy munitions and supplies. With Yankee troops in hot pursuit, Clete soon discovers he might be in a worse situation with a greedy despot (Pedro Armendáriz, 3 Godfathers), crooked businessmen and other shady characters intent on double-crossing him. Directed by action-adventure ace George Sherman (Larceny, The Comancheros) in glorious Technicolor.

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New on Blu-ray: THE GREAT MOMENT (1944) Starring Joel McCrea and Betty Field

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Product Description: Legendary filmmaker Preston Sturges, the writer/director of The Great McGinty, Christmas in July, The Lady Eve and Sullivan’s Travels, turns to a more serious subject matter focusing on one of the great medical discoveries in modern history. The Great Moment takes inspiration from the true-life story of Dr. William Morton (Joel McCrea, Union Pacific, The Palm Beach Story), a dedicated dentist who discovers ether, otherwise known as anesthesia, in 1846. The doctor’s great contribution to humanity, the tribulations he later faced sharing his knowledge, and his reluctance to capitalize on his discovery, are meticulously laced with typical Preston Sturges humor and drama. The stellar cast includes Betty Field (The Shepherd of the Hills), Harry Carey (The Spoilers), William Demarest (Easy Living), Franklin Pangborn (The Bank Dick) and Porter Hall (Murder, He Says).

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New on Blu-ray: UNION PACIFIC (1939) Starring Barbara Stanwyck and Joel McCrea

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Product Description: Filmmaking legend Cecil B. DeMille (The Plainsman, The Ten Commandments) directs the classic screen duo of Barbara Stanwyck (Internes Can’t Take Money, The Lady Eve) and Joel McCrea (The Great Man’s Lady, The Palm Beach Story) in this explosive western about the struggle to build America’s first transcontinental railroad. Jeff Butler (McCrea), overseer of the Union Pacific’s construction, finds a network of schemers bent on sabotage. Most prominent are gamblers Sid Campeau (Brian Donlevy, Beau Geste), Jack Cordray (Anthony Quinn, Against All Flags) and Dick Allen (Robert Preston, Reap the Wild Wind). Dick is a former pal of Jeff’s, but their relationship changes as they fight over the railroad and over Mollie Monahan (Stanwyck), the railroad’s spirited postmistress. Featuring Akim Tamiroff (The General Died at Dawn) and Lynne Overman (Spawn of the North), this action-packed spectacle, filled with political intrigue, stampeding buffalo and train wrecks, delivers everything you would expect from a Cecil B. DeMille epic.

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Classic Movies: FOUR FACES WEST (1948)

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Product Description: An honest man turned outlaw and running for his life... A marshal with a conscience more just than the law... A gambler whose greatest risks are taken for a friend... A woman whose love for a fugitive knows no danger... These are the four unforgettable characters facing the challenge of their lives when their paths cross on an innocent outlaw's compelling flight to freedom. A one-of-a-kind sagebrush saga, this tough and touching classic is as emotionally charged as it is action-packed. Starring western legend Joel McCrea (The Gunfight at Dodge City, Fort Massacre) with Frances Dee (I Walked with a Zombie), Charles Bickford (The Big Country), Joseph Calleia (Gilda) and William Conrad (TV's Cannon and Jake and the Fatman).

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