Product Details

• Actors: William Boyd
• Format: Box set, Collector's Edition, 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: 5
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Platinum Disc
• DVD Release Date: June 7, 2005
• Run Time: 1604 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0009KA83K
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #97,230 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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"...America's first true television hero." --Memories Magazine

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38 of 39 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Hopalong Cassidy 5-disc set CONTENTS, April 11, 2007

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Norm de Plume "Norm" (North Hollywood, CA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Hopalong Cassidy (DVD)

This is not a review but in answer to another reviewer's concern about contents: This CASSIDY set includes "Hidden Gold," "Stagecoach War," "The Showdown," "Three Men from Texas," "Doomed Caravan," "Pirates on Horseback," "In Old Colorado," "Riders of the Timberline," "Wide Open Town," "Stick to Your Guns," "Leather Burners," "Undercover Man," "Border Patrol," "False Colors," "Riders of the Deadline," "Colt Comrades," "Forty Thieves," "The Devil's Playground," "Fool's Gold," "Dangerous Venture," "Unexpected Guest," "Borrowed Trouble," "Sinister Journey," "False Paradise," and "The Dead Don't Dream." 26 1/2 hrs. total. Standard; Soundtrack: English Dolby Digital 5.1.

34 of 41 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars What a "Hopp'in'good" deal!, September 2, 2005

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Mike McCLUSKEY "Big Mac" (Fulda, Germany) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Hopalong Cassidy (DVD)

This 5-disc compellation saves money-- and space. You can find this title-- elsewhere-- for as much as $50,
or, $15, singularly, as Volumes 1;2;3;4;&5. The Amazon price is the best, by far-- either way.
There's a total of 66 Hoppy features-- and 44 TV shows. Volumes 1-8 are the last forty movies made.
The first 16 are available as double-bills on eight different DVDS-- but NOT at these great prices!
I'm looking forward to the last 44 {from the TV series in the '50s}. Robert Mitchum, Victor Jory, Andy Clyde,
and George "Superman" Reeves show up, often, as various characters.
I've been awaiting Volume #1 [since July], so my recomendation is to by THIS title PLUS Volumes 6-8 to save
some time AND money! The previous double-feature discs are pristine transfers, as well, though more costly.
If you're NOT familiar with Wm Boyd, let me tell you ONE thing:
In the record, books HE's listed as playing ONE-charcter most often at the movies AND on TV.
These action-packed westerns are GREAT entertainment. Best of all, they're able to do it in as short as 59-minutes.
God Bless Americana!

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Hoppy Plus California Equals Brilliant!, April 10, 2008

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FLAtRich (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Hopalong Cassidy (DVD)

My love of Westerns started with Hoppy movies released to TV in the late 1940s. The fact is that William Boyd was among the first film producers to recognize television as an entity unto itself and not necessarily the death knell of motion pictures. I don't know if he owned all of his feature films by that time, but he did eventually, and he released many of the 25 featured in this collection to TV.

But you won't find any of them playing on your box now or anywhere else in the condition of the prints represented here. They are almost pristine and nearly perfect and certainly struck from carefully preserved negatives. It is such a joy to watch these films again, some fifty years after first seeing them, and especially in better shape than the first time around.

Hoppy is, of course, the ultimate hero to me, but he is almost eclipsed in this collection by his sidekick California Carlson (Andy Clyde.) Clyde is so funny in some of these films that I had a hard time not watching more than one in one sitting just to see what kind of trouble California would get into next.

Hoppy had other sidekicks over the years, including Gabby Hayes, but California strikes gold with me and that makes this particular collection of 25 Hoppy films a terrific gift for old timers who barely remember the man on the white horse (Topper) and also a perfect starting point for buckaroos just starting down the trail with Hopalong Cassidy!