Product Details

• Actors: Roy Rogers, Dale Evans, Gabby Hayes, Pat Brady, Pinkie Lee
• Directors: n, a
• Format: Box set, 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: 6
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Timeless Media Group
• DVD Release Date: March 9, 2010
• Run Time: 1380 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00309Q1M4
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #55,648 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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ROY ROGERS:KING OF THE COWBOYS - DVD Movie

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30 of 31 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars BAD DEAL!!!, July 22, 2010

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Richard J. Oravitz - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Roy Rogers - King of the Cowboys - 20 Feature Films and more on 6 DVD Set! (DVD)

Love Roy & Dale and all their films, but I just can't stand it when my favorite cowboy films get all butchered up!... For some reason the song SUSANNA PASS went buzzing through my head the other day so I reached for this newly bought set to enjoy the movie. Now, the dvd states the running time as 67 minutes which is the correct running time for this movie. However, during the first 10 minutes I noticed that things just didn't seem quite right. Too many quick splice/cuts. And then when Roy arrives at the jailhouse early on after chasing an escaped convict I remembered that a song seemed to be missing. So when I pulled out my old REPUBLIC PICTURES vhs double bill of this film along with SONS OF THE PIONEERS I not only noticed that the video tape print was clearer with better color contrast, but also that there were no early splice cuts, snipping a couple seconds here and there. And best of all, as Roy arrives at the jailhouse, Estrelita Rodriguez is singing the song TWO GUN RITA which is not on this dvd version!!!
Now I know that those in charge of marketing for the Roy Rogers estate claim that the songs were cut for tv release way back when and are now lost on the cutting room floor... So how come my old vhs tape from REPUBLIC PICTURES has the same movie intact running also at 67 minutes?
It seems to me that the missing time ( cut songs ) were done so that Roy & Dale could host their HAPPY TRAILS THEATER on tv and talk to guest stars, in this case Gene Autry & Pat Buttram. I have nothing against yackin' about old times and kindda like seeing it as a bonus feature...but when it means cutting the songs out of a singing cowboy movie, it grates me somewhat!
After all, according to the promo blurb for Roy & Dale's 4-disc cd collection of their movie songs "...It was always the music."!!!
Then, if so, why cut the music?
This film,and others, THE BELLS OF ROSARITA, UNDER CALIFORNIA STARS, etc are available uncut with all songs intact on cheap public domain lables, many of which offer better looking prints.
Shop wisely and avoid any release that is tied into the ROY ROGERS HAPPY TRAILS tv product. They're all cut versions! They're all missing the songs!
I love the songs and I love my movies uncut and I'm sorry to see such wonderful packaging wasted on such an inferior product.
AVOID AT ALL COSTS!!!

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Disappointment, August 21, 2010

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Michael Johnson "devonmike" (Toronto, Canada) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Roy Rogers - King of the Cowboys - 20 Feature Films and more on 6 DVD Set! (DVD)

To say I was disappointed by this box set would be an understatement. With the exception of the Happy Trails Theatre wraparounds, the movies themselves are a disgrace. By viewing the films contained in this set, fans of Roy Rogers might be forgiven for ever believing that he was once a singing cowboy, since 95% of the original songs have been edited out. Pre 1949 titles were edited down by Republic Studios to 54 mins so that that along with commercial breaks they would fit into a one hour television time slot. Many of the titles contained here are post 49 titles, and in consequence were never edited to begin with. Therefore the obvious question to ask is why don't we have the full running times for THOSE titles at the very least. Let me tell the prospective buyer that not only do we not get the full running times for the later titles, but we don't even get the 54 min cutdown versions for the earlier ones!! What we get instead are running times of approximately 47 mins for all the films included here, with the one exception of "Cowboy and the Senorita", which for some reason appears unedited. The packaging is also misleading since it infers that the titles are uncut with running times corresponding to that contained in the original theatrical release prints. In some, but not all, the actual print quality of the films is inferior to that of even bootlegs. My suggestion is that unless you just want the wraparounds themselves and the two extras included, then you'd be better off to save your money and/or wait for someone to release better uncut versions of these titles.

18 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A New Rising of the Film Legacy of Roy Rogers & Dale Evans, June 9, 2010

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The Gray Ranger (Southern California USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Roy Rogers - King of the Cowboys - 20 Feature Films and more on 6 DVD Set! (DVD)

Hats off to the Roy Rogers Estate. "Roy Rogers-King of the Cowboys," 20 feature film, 6 DVD packaged set is a benchmark contribution to the lexicon of the mythology of the western movie cowboy and the belief system of American youth in the 1930s-1960s, the senior caretakers of today's American character. Many/most of Roy's movies are in the public domain, and a number of companies have produced copies of many of those movies in their current state of repair/dispair. Now comes the Roy Rogers Estate to save that legacy. The collection is from the Happy Trails Theater series programs. Roy and Dale screen their movies with guests including Roy "Dusty" Rogers, Jr., Gene Autry, Pat Buttram, Pat Brady, Penny Edwards, Ruth Terry, Iron Eyes Cody, and Roy's lifetime agent Art Rush whose only contract with Roy was a handshake. With restorative care, the estate has trusted Timeless Media Group to restore and compile 20 Roy Rogers movies.

The collection provides two movies not readily available to DVD collectors until now--"The Golden Stallion" (previously readily available on VHS) and "Pals of the Golden West" (Roy's last Republic western in 1951), generally not available until now. There are early and later black & white classics--"Sons of the Pioneers," "Young Hickok," "Don't Fence Me In," "Man From Oklahoma," "Rainbow Over Texas," "Sunset in El Dorado" (script originally for Dale when it was thought that Roy would be drafted in WWII), "South of Caliente," "In Old Amarillo," "Along The Navajo Trail," "Spoilers of the Plains," and "Cowboy and the Seniorita" (Roy and Dale's first movie together). From the Tru-color period of 1947-1950, there are "Trigger, Jr." "Down Dakota Way," "Trail of Robin Hood," "North of the Great Divide," "Bells of Coranado," "Twilight in the Sierras," and "Susanna Pass." There are also some nice bonus features from the Roy Rogers and Dale Evans Museum, "Roy Rogers Biography," "Sidekicks," and Roy Rogers Museum Tour Hosted by Roy "Dusty" Rogers, Jr.

As much as you will enjoy this collection from the 1938-1951 hayday of Roy Rogers westerns, it could be just the beginning. The Roy Rogers Estate has all the Happy Trails Theater shows, 85 is the number I've heard, that can be additional issues in even more packages like this one. Just think of a colorized "My Pal Trigger," Roy's favorite of his movies. No, it's not in this package, but it could be in the next one. Why more packages? Consider this...

Roy Rogers embodied a spirit of the American frontier, a spirit that is unique to the American experience. Clean-living, God-fearing, hard work for an honest day's dollar, coupled with the enthusiasm, hope, and prayer for what we can become has bred a spirit of the Western Frontier unique in the American experience. Because it is so basic, we can all relate to it. Because it is right, we are drawn to it. Because Roy Rogers was the embodiment of that spirit for all of us, we will remember and venerate him all of our days.

This collection of Roy Rogers and Dale Evans movies needs to be in every library in the country so that our children will have access to the validation of the spirit that helped to shape modern America and can be ours for the future.