Product Details

• Actors: John Wayne, Roy Rogers, Randolph Scott, Ken Maynard, Gary Cooper
• Format: Box set, Closed-captioned, 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: 10
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Bci / Eclipse
• DVD Release Date: October 12, 2004
• Run Time: 1380 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00062IZF4
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #230,738 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Angel and the Badman This film the first personally produced by John Wayne depicts the story of a wounded outlaw who is cared for by a depicts the story of a wounded outlaw who is cared for by a Quaker family. He eventually falls in love with the daughter and is slowly transformed even though he still desires the vengeance of his murdered foster father.: Santa Fe TrailJeb Stuart carries on a friendly rivalry with his friend George Custer over the affections of Kit Carson Halliday. This retelling of a famous legend presents events leading up to the bloody confrontation between Brown and the US Army at Harper's Ferry Virginia and the days leading up to the outbreak of the American Civil War.THE PAINTED DESERT When Western partners Jeff and Cash find an orphan baby boy they clash over which one is to be the adoptive father. Years after Cash has raised the baby boy Bill the two are still feuding. Bill tries to make peace between the families and he falls in love with Jeff's daughter but a mining venture escalates the bitterness.NEVADA CITY Roy Rogers and Gabby Hayes play stagecoach drivers trying to settle the conflict between their stagecoach boss and a railroader. Sabotage on both sides and from lone greedy renegades aggravates the conflict but Rogers and Hayes mediate the conflict and expose the bad guys.FIGHTING CARAVANS Gary Cooper returns to the Zane Grey Western series as Clint Belmet a disreputable frontiersman who convinces a young woman to pose as his wife so he can elude the law. While becoming a frontier guide to a wagon train and fighting off villains he begins falling in love with his counterfeit wife. Homesteading farmers and cattlemen begin fighting for land and about how it should be used. It takes much destruction and bloodshed to resolve the conflict.MY OUTLAW BROTHER Denny O'More (Mickey Rooney) is a greenhorn from New York who heads up into the Wild West to see his brother Patrick (Robert Stack). Along the way he beg

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37 of 37 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars For old B-Westerns, the film transfers here are mostly pretty good considering...., August 11, 2005

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This review is from: Tough Guys of the West 20 Movie Pack (DVD)

This is a review of the "Tough Guys of the West" 20 movie DVD collection issed by Brentwood Home Video.

What you have here is a very good collection of 20 B-Westerns. The films transfers range from very good or excellent to very poor. But, overall these are all watchable and are generally in fairly decent quality overall considering the age and nature of public domain films.

The film transfers for most are at least adequate and generally as good as or better than the typical low-end type of public domain product available out there. But, as I noted there are exceptions, however, and some films are in much better shape than others, but there are only maybe three or four films that I would call very poor transfers (still watchable, but in poor quality), most of the rest of the films here are such that you can generally enjoy the movie itself without being overly distracted by the scratches, fuzziness, splices, etc.

Some of the films that rank in the lower end of the quality range here include: Aces and Eights, Arizona Gunfighter, Gangster's Den, and Frontier Fury. These four films are pretty fuzzy looking - you can watch them o.k., but if you happen to really, really like any of those and were considering buying this collection just for those four films, you should look elsewhere for better copies.

On the other hand, "Abilene Town" is in much, much better quality here than I have seen in some other collections and "Hittin' the Trail", "Stampede" and "The Painted Desert" are also in very good condition here - these are all very good to excellent in terms of picture quality most of the time. Probably as good as it gets for these great old films.

The Roy Rogers film, "Nevada City" is a sharp picture, but it is washed out looking - you can compensate somewhat by increasing the contrast and still get a decent result.

In addition, please note that the Roan Group has issued a much, much better quality DVD version of the Roy Rogers film "Billy the Kid Returns" than what you find here in this collection. Also, if you are looking for a near perfect quality DVD of "Angel and the Bad Man" you need to get the one issued by Good Times which is much better than the film transfer of that film included in this collection. In both cases those two films are certainly very watchable in this collection, I'm just letting you know that if you want perfect copies of those two films and are willing to pay the extra money to get them, significantly better film transfers can be found elsewhere. The ones on this collection are certainly watchable and enjoyable, just not perfect.


Here is a list of the movies included in this set:

Abilene Town - Randolph Scott
Aces and Eights - Tim McCoy
Angel and the Badman - John Wayne
The Arizona Gunfighter - Bob Steele
Cavalcade of the West - Hoot Gibson
Dawn on the Great Divide - Buck Jones
Fighting Caravans - Gary Cooper
Gangster's Den - Buster Crabbe
Hittin the Trail - Tex Ritter
The Light of Western Stars - Alan Ladd
My Outlaw Brother -
Nevada City - Roy Rogers & George "Gabby" Hayes
Painted Desert - Clark Gable
The Phantom Thunderbolt - Ken Maynard
Santa Fe Trail - Errol Flynn
Billy the Kid Returns - Roy Rogers
Boss of Bullion City - Johhny Mack Brown
Range Defenders - Ray "Crash" Corrigan
Stampede - Charles Starrett
Frontier Fury - Charles Starrett

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars 20 Westerns of Public Domain Goodness for a Reasonable Price, May 29, 2007

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Charles J. Rector (Woodstock, IL United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Tough Guys of the West 20 Movie Pack (DVD)

Tough Guys of the West is a collection of 20 Westerns that have only one thing in common: they are all public domain and as such it is possible for them to be presented in highly affordable collections. I paid $23.99 for my set and that comes down to less than $1.25 per movie. The way that movie tickets cost nowadays, you really cannot complain about this collection.

This deal is even better when you consider that many of the movies in this collection are available as individual movie DVD's at prices of $5 and higher. Many of the movies in this collection are presented in better condition than they are from other DVD companies.

Additionally, some of these movies are of such quality and/or proven audience appeal you just have to wonder just why the movie studios did not renew their copyrights. Chief among these are Santa Fe Trail starring both Errol Flynn & Ronald Reagan, Angel and the Badman starring John Wayne and Abilene Town starring Randolph Scott.

All in all, a great deal for the money.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars bcieclipse goes western again, May 6, 2006

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John D. Page "movie fan" (usa) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Tough Guys of the West 20 Movie Pack (DVD)

this set of 20 movies is a western lovers dream. the transfers are all good for the most part and my stepfather really likes this set also. a great way to build your collection of western movies.