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• Actors: BEN GAZZARA--ROBBY BENSON--EILEEN BRENNAN , JOHNNY CASH--BRENDA VACCARO--BEN MARLEY--ELI WALLACH
• Directors: PAUL WENDKOS , GARY NELSON
• Region: All Regions
• Rated: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Studio: EAST WEST ENTERTAINMENT
• Run Time: 194 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• ASIN: B000YH8V00
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #234,886 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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DEATH OF RICHIE[A senstive but confused teenager feels pressure from all directions and turns to drugs]---THE PRIDE OF[A poor and illiterate coal miner must learn to read in order to get a job in the city]

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5.0 out of 5 stars A Strange Duo, May 24, 2010

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Nancy Sherburne (Tucson, Arizona, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Death of Richie"based on a True Story"+the Pride of Jessie Hallam[slim Case] [Double Feature] (DVD)

I already had taped The Pride of Jesse Hallam starring Johnny Cash with some great songs, and had watched it a lot. I had only seen The Death of Richie on TV many years ago so it was great to be able to buy both on one DVD. This is not a double-sided disc, but both movies are on the same side. There is no menu or coming features. You put the disc on, and The Pride of Jesse Hallam begins. When it ends, you do nothing as The Death of Ritchie starts playing on its own. While this is an advantage if you want to watch both, or just The Pride of Jesse Hallam, it may be a slight problem if you only want to watch The Death of Ritchie. With The Pride, you follow Jesse from selling his farm in Kentucky and moving to Ohio so his daughter with scoliosis could be operated on, to finally learning how to do something he never had. Jesse enrolls his son in school and goes about finding himself a job. The one he finds is for a guy named Sal selling fruit and vegetables who happens to be the father of Marion, the assistant principal at the school Theodore (Ted) is enrolled in. When Sal finds out Jesse's secret, he talks his daughter into teaching him. When Jesse finds out his own son Ted is developing the same problem, he decides it is time both of them learned, and that is how the movie ends. In Ritchie, we follow the downward spiral of a boy who begins the movie getting high on drugs. When his parents are told by the court that he needs to be placed in a rehabilitation center, they choose to find him employment. While that works for a while, his druggie buddies pull him back into the drug scene. His behavior gets more violent and threatening, till the day he accosts his father in the basement with a knife, which ends with his death as is apparent by the title of the movie. Both leave me with totally different feelings, but the two movies work very well together. Not all experiences end happily and we need to keep that in mind. The path we choose affects how we live and die, and a contrast such as these give you would hopefully help some viewers make better choices in their lives.