Product Details

• Actors: Kirk Douglas, James Cagney
• Format: Box set, Collector's Edition, Color, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 3
• Rating: Unrated
• Studio: Madacy Home Video
• DVD Release Date: December 5, 2006
• Run Time: 720 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000GG4XSI
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #121,627 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)

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Studio: Kc Sales Release Date: 07/04/2006

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4.0 out of 5 stars Public domain Cagney, Wayne and Douglas, October 2, 2008

By	Annie Van Auken (Planet Earth) - See all my reviews (TOP 50 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

Pictured is the collector's tin of MADACY's TOUGH GUYS, issued December '05. This set was also available 10 months earlier in a more standard heavy paper packaging. The three discs contain nine quite common public domain titles by the featured artists. There are no extras.

The John Wayne trio are his 1930s hour-length cowboy programmers. Kirk Douglas is represented by a superb film noir in which he and his pre-surgery nose are in support, a Technicolor spectacle about a logging baron, and a screwball comedy (of sorts) that's stolen by Keenan Wynn. James Cagney headlines an OK musical, a middling '30s crime drama, and a WWII-era film set in Tokyo.

TRIVIANA:
Don't blink or you'll miss demented "Dracula" co-star Dwight Frye in "Great Guy."
June Lockhart's parents both appear in "Something to Sing About."
Darryl Hickman ("Martha Ivers") is older brother to Dwayne ("Dobie Gillis").
Future director Blake Edwards is seen briefly as a sailor in "Martha Ivers."
Stuntman Yakima Canutt (featured in John Waynes's films) was a star of silent-era westerns. His flu-damaged voice was too raspy for a lead career when talkies came in.


MILL CREEK's ON THE RUN 10 MOVIE PACK offers a mix of vintage action, crime, film noir and drama-- it's an ideal companion to this collection.


Parenthetical numbers preceding titles are 1 to 10 viewer poll ratings found at a film resource website.

DISC ONE - KIRK DOUGLAS
(5.7) The Big Trees (1952) - Kirk Douglas/Eve Miller/Patrice Wymore/Edgar Buchanan/John Archer/Alan Hale Jr./Ellen Corby
(5.8) My Dear Secretary (1949) - Laraine Day/Kirk Douglas/Keenan Wynn/Rudy Vallee/Alan Mowbray/Irene Ryan/Grady Sutton
(7.5) The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946) - Barbara Stanwyck/Van Heflin/Lizabeth Scott/Kirk Douglas/Judith Anderson/Darryl Hickman/Ann Doran (uncredited: Blake Edwards)

DISC TWO - JAMES CAGNEY
(6.2) Something to Sing About (1937) - James Cagney/Evelyn Daw/William Frawley/Gene Lockhart/Philip Ahn/Dwight Frye/Katherine Lockhart (uncredited: Herbert Rawlinson)
(6.1) Great Guy (1936) - James Cagney/Mae Clark/James Burke/Edward Brophy/Edward Gargan (uncredited: Dwight Frye)
(6.3) Blood on the Sun (1945) - James Cagney/Sylvia Sidney/Porter Hall/John Emery/Robert Armstrong/Wallace Ford/Rosemary DeCamp (uncredited: Hugh Beaumont)

DISC THREE - JOHN WAYNE
(5.6) Blue Steel (1934) - John Wayne/Eleanor Hunt/George 'Gabby' Hayes/Yakima Canutt/Lafe McKee
(5.1) The Man From Utah (1934) - John Wayne/Polly Ann Young/George 'Gabby' Hayes/Yakima Canutt/Lafe McKee
(5.5) The Star Packer (1934) - John Wayne/Verna Hillie/George 'Gabby' Hayes/Yakima Canutt/Thomas G. Lingham (uncredited: Glenn Strange)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Discs mislabeled, August 17, 2007

By	David (Berkeley, CA USA) - See all my reviews

This isn't so much a review as a comment: The two discs I've seen are mislabeled. The Cagney disc has the John Wayne label on it, and vice-versa. Doesn't speak well for Madacy's quality control processes.