Kenneth Turan’s DVD pick of the week: Holiday picks, Part II -- star turns
Kenneth Turan’s DVD Pick of the Week: Holiday Gifts Part 2; John Wayne Westerns Film Collection, Clint Eastwood Universal Pictures 7-Movie Collection, I Love Lucy The Complete Series.
Those who want to be star-centric in their holiday DVD/Blu-ray gift giving have a trio of fine compilations to chose from.
For viewers who still thrill to visions of the old West, Warner Bros. offers the “John Wayne Westerns Film Collection,” a five-disc Blu-ray collection that includes classics such as “Fort Apache,” “The Searchers” and “Rio Bravo.”
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Clint Eastwood did some pretty fair westerns in his day, and examples like “High Plains Drifter” and “”Joe Kidd” are included in “Clint Eastwood: The Universal Pictures Seven Film Collection,” but the real treat here is Don Siegel’s “Coogan’s Bluff,” a modern tale about a western sheriff chasing bad guys in Manhattan.
Biggest actor collection by far is CBS Home Entertainment’s “I Love Lucy: The Complete Series,” which uses 33 discs to display all 194 episodes. Wow.
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