Product Details

• Actors: Tris Coffin, Kelo Henderson
• Directors: n, a
• Format: Black & White, Color, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 2
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Timeless Media Group
• DVD Release Date: November 21, 2006
• Run Time: 250 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000KWZ1N4
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #190,849 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "26 Men" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

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16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Grey & White Blues, February 21, 2011

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Don V. Sturn (Naperville, IL) - See all my reviews
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Remember this old series from when I was young boy. Good price for entire series so I ordered it. Excellent shipping service and new set of DVDs. Unfortunately the quality of the episodes was so poor as to detract significantly from viewing. Understand it is old Black & White - but this is almost White & Whiter - or White & Grey. The sound is also uneven and I only watched one complete episode and scanned others before returning.

I have other older TV series and I expect some color, film and sound distortion, but this is not worth viewing.

16 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Actual History Lessons, March 25, 2008

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Only-A-Child - See all my reviews
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This review was written about the first release of episodes for this television series. Since that review a second set has been released containing an additional 20 episodes from the series; I have yet to purchase and review that new release.

The 78 half-hour episodes of the television western "26 Men" were originally broadcast during the 1957-59 television seasons. The series was produced by Russell "Lucky" Hayden, the same guy who played Hopalong Cassidy's sidekick Lucky Jenkins in many of Hoppy's western films during the late 30's and early 40's. Ten episodes from throughout the run of the series are included on this DVD release. Resolution is a bit grainy and overexposed so don't expect a great image-but it is viewable and given the reception quality in many households during the original broadcasts the image will feel like authentic 1950's television viewing. No special features on the DVD's-just the episodes.

Much like its counterpart, "Tales of Texas Rangers", the series focused on the historical adventures of the Arizona Rangers who operated in Arizona while it was still a territory. Some names were changed but the idea was to recreate actual cases from the files of the Rangers.

The Arizona Rangers were created in 1901 by the Arizona Territorial Legislature to deal mostly with rustlers along the Mexican border. Modeled on the Texas Rangers the group was originally limited to one company of 14 men, in 1903 the force was increased to 26 men (hence the series title).

Many of the 26 were Spanish-American War veterans of Teddy Roosevelt's Rough Riders unit. They were expert horsemen, trackers and marksmen. Because the force was small and their mission was big the territory made sure they were equipped with the best horses and the most modern weapons. And they apparently were legends in their own time, widely publicized and conspicuous. And so successful that local law enforcement worked lobbied hard to have this elite force disbanded.

In the television series Tris Coffin plays Captain Tom Rynning (the actual name of the unit's second commander) and Kelo Henderson plays Clint Travis. "Coffin" was appropriately named as his main claim to fame was an incident a couple years earlier on the CBS anthology series "Climax". Coffin was playing a corpse during a scene and suddenly just stood up during shooting and walked out of the frame. He had thought the scene over and the camera turned off. For this he was nationally nicknamed "dead man walking".


"The Recruit" - 15 October 1957 - The newspaper editor of Wilcox asks the Rangers for help, and two of them are dispatched to the town. However, when they get there they find the editor has been lynched and is hanging from a tree.

"The Wild Bunch" - 29 October 1957 - A member of the notorious Wild Bunch bandit gang escapes from Ranger Clint Travis' custody, resulting in his being fired. Furious, Travis sets out to take on the whole gang and salvage his career and reputation.

"Border Incident" - 5 November 1957 - Clint Travis goes undercover as a gun smuggler to stop Mexican revolutionary Juan Morales' plans to topple the Mexican government.

"Incident at Yuma" - 19 November 1957 - A gang of convicts has escaped from prison, but Capt. Rynning's can't get any more men to help capture them.

"The Slater Brothers" - 26 November 1957 - When Clint Travis is falsely accused of Murder. Rynning sends him into Galioro Mountains to prove his innocence by finding the cattle rustlers who actually committed the crime.

"Trouble At Pinnacle Peak"

"The Big Rope"

"Trail of Darkness"

"Trade Me Deadly"

"The Bells of St. Thomas"


Then again, what do I know? I'm only a child.

Saddle up, saddle up, saddle up.

This is the story of 26 Men.
Who rode the Arizona Territory.
High is the glory of 26 Men,
Whose parish helped to fill the Territory.

26 Men who saddled up and then
Rode out to answer duty's call.
26 Men who lived to ride again
And fight for the rights and the liberty of all.

This is the story of 26 Men
Enforcing law within the Territory.
Praise be the Glory of 26 Men
Who rode the Arizona Territory.

Ride on. Ride on. Ride on.

5.0 out of 5 stars $50 per month and furnish your own horse and arms., January 16, 2012

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DavidJohnStock (Western Australia) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: 26 MEN - 20 Episodes Starring Tris Coffin (DVD)

This is one of those westerns that I do not recall watching while growing up in Western Australia during the 1950's - but then my memories were mostly of shows such as FURY and RIN TIN TIN.
I now possess a very large collection and happily include 26MEN along such as WAGON TRAIN and HGWT.
The acting of TRIS COFFIN as the Captain sets this show apart and it is good to see this actor on the side of the law for a change, for some reason this release does not appear to be numbered so I have now sent off for its companion which I now see came out a few years previously.
I enjoyed the understated humour of the episode "TROUBLE AT PINNACLE PEAK", with the Captain and his recruit creeping up on a gang located in a shack, sounds of a Harmonica comes out and the recruit says
"something about a Harmonica makes me sad" and the Captain replies
"train whistles do it for me".
Another section has the recruit saying to the Indian tracker "Indians don't laugh"
with the tracker replying "nothing to laugh about, but I laugh anyhow".
Okay it sounds funny rather than reads funny.
As far as the condition of the DVD I found it to be very good when you consider the age of the film,
I wonder if much television in the present age of 2012 will still be viewed in 2062?
As one of the original Arizona Rangers recalled: "The reason there was only 26 of us was because the Territory could't afford no more"!.