Customer Reviews

The Rifleman Box Set Collection 5

5 star:		(4)
4 star:		(0)
3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(1)

 

 

The Rifleman is among the top two or three superior classic TV Westerns from the early days of TV when Westerns were competing with each other at a frantic pace. The stories and acting on The Rifleman are outstanding.

A question to trivia experts: am I remembering correctly that the introductory scenes varied from season to season? MPI seems to have edited in the first season introduction to all season episodes.

Putting it shortly and simply, there is no need to review the show, one of the best western TV shows ever. If you are over 45 or so and you don't know the show, you must have been living in a cave or in some third-world country, and even in those countries, everyone has a TV and you can probably still get the show in syndication.

The production company was Four-Star Productions, but I would give the product here only three stars, simply because I want the original show in its entirety - the original opening credits and the original closing credits, and everything in between, for each and every episode, season-by-season in episode order. There has yet to be a season-by-season DVD release of the original episodes of "The Rifleman", just repackaged stuff like this. This is true for another great western series, "Bonanza." I also hope those are released one day in their original form instead of in the bastardized collections currently available.

This series varies a bit, some episodes are slow and the music gets really hokey sometimes but there are other episodes that are extremely good. There are plenty of scenes with Lucas just acting like an all out man! such as chopping wood in the field shirtless, waking up early because it bothers him that his aim isn't quite right, or decling he'll drink with who he wants- when he wants . There's no way they'd show such out and out masculinity nowadays. Us guys need to go back to the 1950s and 1960s when it was okay to show men acting like real men (in comparison to the nonsense they're showing nowadays). Even in scenes with Lucas relaxing at the end of the day, teaching Mark another life lesson, his jaw set tight-this Rifleman's features seem to be chiseled from solid stone! Grasshopper from this collection is classic and truly excellent. Please release the remainder of the series!

What is with these people? Almost no one is going to pay 300 , 400 , 500 dollars for this or any show. What do you make the DVDs out of ? Gold? I love the Rifleman and want the show, but for a decent price. i might even pay as much as $100 for the entire set. Maybe if you lowered the price (by alot) you might sell a few.

There are many illegal rip-offs of Rifleman DVDs out there, but this is a legal good quality DVD via MPI Home Video. See the link below for more info on Rifleman DVDs.

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My advice is to make sure your Rifleman DVD is from the studio of MPI Home Video (which this one is). I've been burned on illegal Rifleman knock-offs copied and shipped from China. They were cheaper, but the quality was terrible. The quality of this DVD from MPI is excellent.

The DVD box depicts The Riffleman as righthanded, me thinks not!!
Chuck was left handed.
Despite that I enjoyed seeing this western again.