New on Blu-ray: THE LOST PATROL (1934) Starring Victor McLaglen & Boris Karloff

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Product Description: A shot rings out, the captain falls, and with him dies the knowledge of his unit's mission. A stalwart sergeant takes charge as he & his men try to escape the unseen snipers who felled their captain. They hole up at an oasis in a land that a Bible-toting soldier believes was once the Garden of Eden. John Ford guides this powerful tale of men & mortality set in WWI Mesopotamia. Victor McLaglen plays the sergeant and Boris Karloff is the religious firebrand whose zeal turns to feverish madness.

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New on Blu-ray: THE WINGS OF EAGLES (1957) Starring John Wayne, Dan Dailey & Maureen O'Hara

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Product Description: Frank Spig Wead (John Wayne) is instrumental in advancing the cause of American air power, but he endures a troubled personal life, becoming estranged from his wife, Minnie (Maureen O'Hara) after the death of their baby. During a bout of drinking, he tumbles down the stairs of his home and is paralyzed. With the help of happy-go-lucky Navy mechanic Jughead Carson (Dan Dailey), Wead regains some use of his legs and eventually restores meaning to his life.

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New on Blu-ray: SERGEANT RUTLEDGE (1960) Starring Woody Strode & Jeffrey Hunter

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Product Description: In 1866, new fighting units are formed within the U.S. Cavalry: the courageous 9th and 10th regiments. History, judging from the regiments' list of Medal of Honor winners, calls them heroes. Against this backdrop, Sergeant Rutledge (Woody Strode), is a 9th Cavalry officer on trial for rape and murder. Lt. Cantrell (Jeffrey Hunter) defends Rutledge as witnesses give testimony (relived in flashbacks) revealing the sergeant's gallantry -- and the shocking truth behind the alleged crimes.

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New on Blu-ray: ARROWSMITH (1931) Starring Ronald Colman & Helen Hayes

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Product Description: In this adaptation of the acclaimed novel by Sinclair Lewis, Dr. Martin Arrowsmith (Ronald Colman) marries nurse Leora Tozer (Helen Hayes) and misses out on a position with the esteemed Prof. Max Gottlieb. When Swedish scientist Gustav Sondelius (Richard Bennett) invites Arrowsmith to help fight an outbreak of the bubonic plague in the West Indies, he must reconcile his desire for prestige and dedication to the scientific method with the needs of real people in pain.

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New on Blu-ray: MOGAMBO (1953) Starring Clark Gable, Ava Gardner & Grace Kelly

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Product Description: A Broadway showgirl stranded in the African jungle; Eloise is more suited for the urban jungle. Yet one look at safari guide Victor Marswell and she knows exactly where she wants to be. Times change but the fun remains when Clark Gable portrays man's man Victor in a sassy, vibrant remake of Gable's 1932 hit Red Dust.

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7 WOMEN (1965) - Blu-ray Release of John Ford's Drama Starring Anne Bancroft, Sue Lyon and Margaret Leighton

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Product Description: A Story of Flame and Fury, Faith and Fear, Love and Adventure! Anne Bancroft heads an all star cast in this powerful story set in 1935 on the Chinese-Mongolian border. A group of young American women are working as missionaries at a Chinese school when a cholera epidemic drives most locals from the town. Now, the Mongolian army closes in to take over the area, but, resolute, the seven strong women vow to save the school and protect the students. Seven Women was the final film in the illustrious career of legendary director John Ford, now newly remastered from 4K scans of the original negative for its Blu-ray debut.

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DONOVAN'S REEF (1963) - Blu-ray & 4K Release of John Wayne Adventure Comedy

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Product Description: Legendary filmmaker John Ford (Stagecoach, The Quiet Man) and star John Wayne (Fort Apache, The Searchers ) team up for what would be their final collaboration in this boisterous, uproarious South Seas escapade! Life on a South Pacific island for two ex-Navy buddies (The Duke and Lee Marvin, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance) is just about perfect—they spend most of their time in Donovan’s Reef, the local saloon where they brawl and feud and somehow manage to stave off the sameness of tropical living. Then, into this mayhem arrives a straitlaced Bostonian (Elizabeth Allen, Cheyenne Autumn) in search of her father. Jack Warden, Cesar Romero, Dick Foran and Dorothy Lamour add to the laughs—and pandemonium—in this tropical Technicolor treat!

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New on Blu-ray & 4K: THE SEARCHERS (1956) Starring John Wayne

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Product Description: Working together for the 12th time, John Wayne and director John Ford forged The Searchers into a landmark Western offering an indelible image of the frontier and the men and women who challenged it. Wayne plays an ex-Confederate soldier seeking his niece, captured by Comanches who massacred his family. He won't surrender to hunger, thirst, the elements or loneliness. And in his five-year search, he encounters something unexpected: his own humanity. Beautifully photographed by Winston C. Hoch, thrillingly scored by Max Steiner, and memorably acted by a superb ensemble including Jeffrey Hunter, Vera Miles, Natalie Wood and Ward Bond, The Searchers endures as a great film of enormous scope and breathtaking physical beauty (Danny Peary, Guide for the Film Fanatic). Named the greatest American Western by the American Film Institute in 2008, The Searchers was among the first 25 films deemed culturally or aesthetically significant by the U.S. Library of Congress in 1989, when it was inducted in its National Film Registry. Now meticulously restored from its original negative, this new presentation of The Searchers presents this masterpiece with unparalleled image quality, accompanied by an impressive array of special features.

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New on Blu-ray: 3 GODFATHERS (1948) - Includes the Remastered 1936 Film THREE GODFATHERS

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Product Description: John Wayne teams with his long-time friend and favorite director John Ford for this fifth screen version of Peter B. Kyne's oft-filmed 1913 novel. Ford's directorial acumen, with the help of stunning Technicolor photography make this 1948 version the best screen adaptation of Kyne's novel. Bandits Hightower, Fuerte, and Abilene flee from a posse across the unforgiving Arizona wasteland. In a lethal sandstorm, the outlaws come across a lone woman about to give birth. The mother dies during the delivery, but with her last words she makes the men promise to protect her child. Now, as the three hardened gunmen head to the town of New Jerusalem with a swaddled infant--retracing a pilgrimage taken 2,000 years ago through a desert in the Holy Land--each man undergoes a fundamental transformation. This special release also contains M-G-M's 1936 film of the story, directed by Richard Boleslavski and starring Chester Morris and Lewis Stone. Both films have been remastered in High-Definition for this special release of a timeless tale.

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New on Blu-ray: THE QUIET MAN (1952) Starring John Wayne & Maureen O'Hara

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Product Description: John Wayne is retired boxer Sean Thornton who makes a pilgrimage to his home village in Ireland in order to claim his family’s estate. He meets his match in the spirited young Mary Kate Danaher (Maureen O’Hara) only to find himself confronted by her belligerent brother and the town’s strict customs. An Oscar® winner for Best Director and Cinematography, this Republic Pictures classic lives on in the hearts of moviegoers and moviemakers alike. John Ford’s THE QUIET MAN is simply one of the greatest love stories ever told.

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New on Blu-ray: THE HORSE SOLDIERS (1959) Starring John Wayne, William Holden & Constance Towers

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Product Description: Screen legends John Wayne (Rio Bravo) and William Holden (The Wild Bunch) team up with eminent western director John Ford (The Searchers) for this Civil War adventure packed with laughter, romance and thrills. A faithful representation of one of the most daring cavalry exploits in history, The Horse Soldiers tells the rousing tale of a troop of Union soldiers who force their way deep into Southern territory to destroy a rebel stronghold at Newton Station. In command is hardbitten Colonel Marlowe (Wayne), a man who is strikingly contrasted by the company’s gentle surgeon (Holden) and the beautiful but crafty Southern belle (Constance Towers, The Naked Kiss) who’s forced to accompany the Union raiders on perhaps the most harrowing mission in the war. The stellar supporting cast includes sports pioneer Althea Gibson and many frontier favorites like Judson Pratt, Ken Curtis, Willis Bouchey, Bing Russell, O.Z. Whitehead, Hank Worden, Denver Pyle, Strother Martin and Hoot Gibson.

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New on Blu-ray: MISTER ROBERTS (1955) Starring Henry Fonda, James Cagney, William Powell and Jack Lemmon

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Product Description: The USS Reluctant carries cargo along World War IIs forgotten Pacific seaways. Beyond the horizon, the real war passes its stir-crazy crew by. Mister Roberts, directed by John Ford and Mervyn LeRoy, is the classic story of men fighting to survive not wars dangers, but its indignities. Henry Fondas reprise of his Tony®-winning Broadway role returned him to movies after seven years away. Jack Lemmon won his first Academy Award®* as hapless, lecherous Ensign Pulver. James Cagneys petty, scrappy Captain makes a fierce adversary. In his final film, William Powell makes world-weary Doc a sage for the ages. Mister Roberts has moments of unforgettable humor. But sadness tempers the comedy. No shot is fired. No blood is spilled. Yet Mister Roberts endures as one of our most truthful war sagas.

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New on Blu-ray: RIO GRANDE (1950) Starring John Wayne & Maureen O'Hara - Olive Signature Edition

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Product Description: Rio Grande, the third and final installment in John Ford's loosely-conceived Cavalry Trilogy(preceded by Fort Apache and She Wore A Yellow Ribbon) stars John Wayne as Lt. Col. John Kirby Yorke (the role he inhabited in Fort Apache) alongside Maureen O'Hara (in the first of five films she'd co-star in alongside Wayne) as his estranged wife, Kathleen, a woman set on keeping their son, Jefferson (Claude Jarman Jr., The Yearling), now under Yorke's command, out of harm's way.

Filmed throughout Moab, Utah and the majestic Professor Valley -- photographed in exquisite gradations of black and white by Stagecoach cinematographer Bert Glennon -- Rio Grande offers nuanced observations on love, family, and honor, while firmly adhering to the western genre, showing Ford at his most measured and mature as a storyteller.Written by James Kevin McGuinness (Men of Boys Town) based on the Saturday Evening Post story by James Warner Bellah, Rio Grande features J. Carrol Naish and a supporting cast of familiar faces, many of them from the Ford stock company of actorsincluding Harry Carey, Jr., Ben Johnson, Victor McLaglen, Chill Wills, and Grant Withers.

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DVD & Blu-ray: HELL BENT (1918) Starring Harry Carey

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Product Description: NEW 4K RESTORATION FROM UNIVERSAL PICTURES! Hell Bent (1918) is a rousing Western from the series of Cheyenne Harry adventures that director John Ford (still credited as Jack Ford early in his career) made with star Harry Carey (Straight Shooting). Cheyenne Harry was an outlaw with a heart of gold, played with stoic warmth by Carey, whose performances were a pivotal influence on John Wayne. In Hell Bent Harry flees the law after a poker game shootout, and arrives in the town of Rawhide, where he becomes friendly with local cowboy Cimmaron Bill (Duke Lee) and the kindly dance hall girl Bess Thurston (Neva Gerber), who is tending to her sick mother. Gang leader Beau Ross (Joseph Harris) falls hard for Bess, and kidnaps her. Cheyenne Harry goes to desperate lengths traveling across the deadly desert in order to free Bess from the hard-bitten Ross.

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New on Blu-ray: STRAIGHT SHOOTING (1917) Starring Harry Carey

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Product Description: Straight Shooting (1917) is a landmark in the history of the Western. It is the first feature directed by the legendary John Ford (here credited as Jack Ford), who revived the career of Harry Carey, one of his greatest stars, to a rough-and-tumble performance as a hired gun of cattle rustlers. “Cheyenne Harry” is a role Carey would play into the 1930s, an amiable antihero who pals around with outlaws but who really has a heart of gold. In Straight Shooting Harry is hired by rancher Thunder Flint (Duke Lee) to intimidate the kindly Sweetwater Sims (George Berrell) off of his farmland, but has a change of heart after getting to know Sims’ family. It becomes a war of ranchers against farmers as Flint organizes a siege of Sims’ property, with Harry and other local farmers banded together against them. It is a thrilling adventure that proves John Ford was born to film the American West. Special Features: -Audio commentary by film historian Joseph McBride, author of Searching for John Ford -Hitchin' Posts (1920, directed by John Ford, fragment preserved by the Library of Congress) -Video essay by film critic Tag Gallagher -Booklet essay by film critic Tag Gallagher

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New on Blu-ray: WAGON MASTER (1950) Starring Ben Johnson and Joanne Dru

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Product Description: The rivers are wide and rapid. The desert is vast and unforgiving. And when the trail turns craggy, men use pickaxes to dig grooves for the wagon wheels. Mother Nature can be overcome, but human nature remains deadly and unpredictable: Outlaws are using the Mormon wagon train as a hideout from a pursuing posse.

John Ford's Wagon Master is one of the legendary filmmaker's personal favorites, a visually stirring celebration of Western will and cooperation set to the soundtrack crooning of the Sons of the Pioneers. Ben Johnson, Harry Carey Jr., Ward Bond (who would later lead TV's Wagon Train) and other familiar Ford stock company players take the reins in this glorious paean to the pioneer spirit. "Wagons west!"

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