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James Stewart: The James Stewart Western Collection (DVD, Boxed set)
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James Stewart: The James Stewart Western Collection (DVD, Boxed set)
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Collection of westerns starring Hollywood icon James Stewart. In
'The Rare Breed' (1966) Martha Price (Maureen O'Hara) and her
daughter Hilary (Juliet Mills) enlist the help of Sam 'Bulldog'
Burnett (Stewart), a wandering ranch hand, to carry out the dream
of Martha's late husband who died en route to America. His dream
was to introduce Hereford cattle by transporting a lone bull,
Vindicator, to Texas to breed it with longhorn cattle. Martha,
Hilary and Sam set out on the road to Texas with the bull, but the
trail is fraught with dangers and Sam has to rescue the women from
a series of Western-style ambushes and abductions. In 'Shenandoah'
(1965) Stewart stars as Charlie Anderson, a wealthy farmer in
Virginia who has hitherto steadfastly refused to take any part in
the civil war that is raging around him. But the war inevitably
ensnares him through a series of family tragedies that includes his
youngest son (Philip Alford) being taken prisoner by the Unionists
and charged with spying, his son James (Patrick Wayne) and
daughter-in-law Ann (Katharine Ross) being murdered by a gang of
looters, and the death of his eldest son Jacob (Glenn Corbett). In
'Night Passage' (1957) Stewart stars as Grant McLaine, a former
railroad employee now scraping a living as a travelling musician
entertaining workers in the construction camps along the frontier.
Fired from his job on the railroads after helping his gun-slinging
outlaw brother - known as the Utica Kid (Audie Murphy) - escape the
law, he is given one last chance to prove his worth by being asked
to deliver $10,000 for the railroad workers' wages. In 'Bend of the
River' (1952) Glyn McLyntock (Stewart) is a man with a past. As he
attempts to help a group of Missouri settlers cross the Oregon
Trail to the Columbia River Basin, he is double-crossed by Emerson
Cole (Arthur Kennedy), the man he thought of as a friend. However,
he finds assistance in the form of farmer's daughter Laura Baile
(Julie Adams) and San Franciscan gambler Trey Wilson (Rock Hudson).
'The Far Country' (1954) is set in the wild gold rush days of the
Yukon Territory, and stars Stewart and Walter Brennan as loner Jeff
Webster and his sidekick Ben Tatum. When the pair attempt to get
rich quick by selling a herd of cattle at a conflated price, they
soon find themselves caught up in a conflict with a self-appointed
and corrupt local sheriff and his henchmen. In 'Destry Rides Again'
(1939) the son of a famous lawman, young Tom Destry (Stewart), is
considered something of a joke when he takes up the position of
deputy in the lawless town of Bottle Neck. Destry refuses to carry
a gun, and prefers a glass of milk to alcohol, which hardly makes
him a match for gunslinging saloon owner Kent (Brian Donlevy), the
real power behind the town. However, with the aid of drunken
sheriff 'Wash' Dimmsdale (Charles Winninger), the soft-spoken
Destry sets about cleaning up Bottle Neck in his own inimitable
manner, winning the admiration of Kent's blowsy, bar-room singer
girlfriend, Frenchy (Marlene Dietrich), along the way. Finally, in
'Winchester 73' (1950) cowboy Lin McAdam (Stewart) wins a
Winchester rifle in a shooting competition, only for it to be
stolen by his opponent, his arch-enemy Dutch Henry Mann (Stephen
McNally). McAdam sets off in pursuit of his adversary, determined
to settle a feud that dates back many years.
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