Product Details

• Actors: Restless Gun
• Directors: n, a
• Format: Box set, Black & White, 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: 3
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Timeless Media Group
• DVD Release Date: October 30, 2007
• Run Time: 600 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000TLTCO0
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #111,737 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "The Restless Gun" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

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Genre: Television
Rating: NR
Release Date: 30-OCT-2007
Media Type: DVD

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67 of 69 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars 24 classic episodes from a 50's western gem!, November 8, 2007

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Anthony Caton (Arkansas. USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Restless Gun (DVD)

I'm surprised and quite pleased that this often forgotten 1957-59 western has found it's way to a DVD release by Timeless Media Group. Rugged John Payne stars as Vint Bonner in the "Restless Gun." Bonner travels the southwest trying to live down his reputation as one of the fastest guns in the post-Civil War era. Bonner tries to avoid trouble, but it most often finds him. The set starts out with the 30-minute pilot episode first aired on "Schlitz Playhouse of Stars." Payne is surrounded by one terrific set of supporting players in the pilot -- William Hopper ("Perry Mason"), Michael Landon ("Bonanza"), and Andrew Duggan ("Lancer"). Many TV western icons guest star in the remaining 23-episode set, including Morgan Woodward ("Wyatt Earp"), Dan Blocker ("Bonanza"), Claude Akins, Jack Elam ("The Dakotas"), Ben Johnson, Robert Fuller ("Laramie"), James Coburn, Royal Dano, Edgar Buchanan, and Denver Pyle. The prints drawn from the Universal/NBC archives are not pristine (some streaks, very dark evening shots, specks) but quite watchable. As someone who has collected 16mm prints of numerous westerns over the years, I would grade the overall picture in the set an 8, on a 1-10 scale; the audio is first-rate. Snap this set up along with other TMG/NBC releases of "The Tall Man" (Clu Gulager, Barry Sullivan), "Laredo" (Neville Brand), "Riverboat" (Burt Reynolds) and "Cimarron City" (George Montgomery).

Disc 1

Episode (pilot) Restless Gun

Episode 10 Man and Boy Emile Meyer, Dan Blocker

Episode 11 Cheyenne Express Royal Dano

Episode 12 Thicker Than Water Claude Akins

Episode 14 The Child Dan Blocker, Tony Caruso

Episode 21 Hornitas Town Jack Elam, John Larch

Episode 24 Woman From Sacramento

Episode 26 Hand Is Quicker John Ericson, Gregg Palmer

Disc 2

Episode 40 Jebediah Bonner James Best, Read Morgan

Episode 45 Bonner's Squaw

Episode 66 The Pawn James Coburn, Denver Pyle

Episode 47 Remember The Dead Frank Ferguson

Episode 48 No Way To Kill Ben Johnson, Scott Morrow

Episode 50 Multiply One Day

Episode 51 Paligroso Robert Fuller, Dabbs Greer

Episode 53 Way Back Morgan Woodward, James Coburn

Disc 3

Episode 54 Painted Beauty Ruta Lee

Episode 69 Code For Killer Lane Bradford

Episode 56 Lady And The Gun Mala Powers

Episode 57 Blood of Courage J. Carrol Naish, Lee Farr

Episode 61 Melany Claude Akins, Gregg Palmer

Episode 65 Bluefield Incident Morgan Woodward, Alan Hale Jr.

Episode 35 Gold Star Edgar Buchanan, I. Stanford Jolley

29 of 30 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Classic John Payne Western Available in DVD, December 31, 2007

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Terence Allen (Atlanta, GA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Restless Gun (DVD)

The Restless Gun only aired for two seasons (1957-1959), and was caught up in the glut of Western television programming that occurred in the 1950s. But it is wonderful news that Timeless Media has released episodes of this series on DVD because this is another example of a great show that has not received its due.

The series starred and was co-produced by John Payne, who was transitioning his career from motion pictures to television after a long film career capped by his performance as the defense attorney in the classic Christmas film, "Miracle On 34th Street." Payne played Vint Bonner, a former gunfighter who has retired from the trade and wanders the West. Bonner is more reticent than most heroes to use his gun, and has sensitivity and compassion that is expected from Western heroes, but more fully realized here than in most Westerns.

The series had all the hallmarks of great television - great lead character, great performances, great writing, and great casting. David Dortort, who would go on to produce Bonanza, worked with Payne to include the best supporting actors in The Restless Gun. Perennial Western actors like Jack Elam, Denver Pyle, James Coburn, Claude Akins, Royal Dano, plus some of the actors that would appear on Bonanza, including Dan Blocker, Michael Landon, and Ray Teal.

Payne's Vint Bonner is a thoughtful, decent fellow who is easy to root for, and The Restless Gun merits this DVD release, and a full series release sometime in the near future.

29 of 30 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Happy Trails -- and then some!, December 11, 2007

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D. S. Wymore "Golden Age of Hollywood fan" (Catskill Mountains, NY) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Restless Gun (DVD)

I was much too young to remember this program because it aired from 1957 to 1959. However, just because I don't remember it certainly doesn't mean that I don't enjoy this type of television - and much better than some of the junk aired today!. The 3 disc DVD set features 24 out of the 78 aired episodes. It stars handsome John Payne as the amiable Vint Bonner, former Civil War soldier and hired gunslinger who wanders from town to town in the old west. It is fast paced with good writing, making this program one of the more enjoyable series of it's time. Some of the film quality isn't up to today's standards but considering the film stock is 50 years old, it's kind of to be expected. I can't imagine that anyone in 1957 would have thought that people of 2007 would be watching this so naturally, the film stock isn't as well preserved as, say, a major motion picture. Thanks for making this available and please consider releasing the other 54 episodes.