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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT
EAN: 0024543519300
Format: Black & White, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: 20th Century Fox
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
Number Of Items: 2
Publisher: 20th Century Fox
Region Code: 1
Release Date: May 13, 2008
Running Time: 122 minutes
Sales Rank: 2560
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Theatrical Release Date: November 01, 1930
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The movie that made John Wayne a star Raoul Walsh's The Big Trail comes to DVD for the first time in its original 70 mm Widescreen version. This 2-disc Special Edition featuers both the 70 mm widescreen and the alternative standard fullscreen version plus three new docs. System Requirements:Running Time: 212 minutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: WAR/CLASSICS Rating: NR UPC: 024543519300 Manufacturer No: 2251930
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One of very few widescreen productions filmed at the dawn of the talkies, The Big Trail was dismissed by reviewers of the day, little seen, and soon shelved and forgotten--for more than half a century, as it turned out. For movie buffs, it became a sort of Holy Grail. After all, the esteemed Raoul Walsh had directed, the early 70mm angle was tantalizing, and wasn't this the movie that was intended to make a star of Duke Morrison, a 22-year-old former prop man whom Walsh had rechristened John Wayne for the occasion? For curiosity value alone, surely it rated a look.
Restored in the late 1980s and warmly embraced by film festival audiences, The Big Trail proved to be more than just a historical footnote. What were those 1930 reviewers thinking?! Wayne is fresh, exuberant, matinee-idol handsome, and irresistibly charming (only a little purple prose trips him up, and no one should have been asked to speak such early-talkie flapdoodle anyway). The scenario winds through epic settings from the banks of the Mississippi by way of the Grand Canyon to the snows of Oregon and the mountain vistas of Washington, marking both a wagon train's journey and the settling of a personal score between trail guide Wayne and Tyrone Power Sr. as a veritable ogre of a villain. (A villain off-camera, too: Legend holds that Walsh had the actor beaten nearly to death for attempting to force himself on leading lady Marguerite Churchill.) The Big Trail is now an authentic classic, and a swell movie. Probably always was. --Richard T. Jameson
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A great film from 1930, filmed in both 35mm and 70mm. The 70mm version has "footage" both left and right of what is seen in the 35mm version that is good (important) to see as the story progesses. This movie was about 7 or 8 years before John Wayne's roll in Stagecoach. Thus, this gives you the chance to see John Wayne's early developement as a western actor.
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The two disc version is Great and includes the wide screen version. The movie is very interesting from a historical perspective.
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The new disc of the widescreen version of THE BIG TRAIL is the surprise of the season.This only applies when one can see it on a big screen. I projected mine on a screen 6 ft. by 12 ft. for the full Grandeur effect. It is remarkable that this film was a box office failure because there is so much to recomend it. See it on a BIG SCREEN and you will know what I mean. John Wayne does very well. But my respect for director Raoul Wlash shot up 40 degrees after viewing this film. He did an amazing ... Read More
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When you watch this movie you will be surprised to see how much is done.
Everything was done by hand. No computer models or fill ins. All the equipment & people used are amazing. Watching John Wayne you can see bits of the future John Wayne. The story line is good & it's such a joy to watch. So sit back & watch a 1930 movie.
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"The Big Trail" was William Fox's attempt to outdo Paramount's 1923 epic "The Covered Wagon". That James Cruze directed film brought Westerns back into popularity and made a fortune for the studio. William Fox now had the addition of sound (his Movietone sound-on-film system would become the standard, beating out Warner Bros. Vitaphone sound-on-disc system) and a newly developed 70mm wide screen system that was dubbed Grandeur. Spending $2 million dollars!-- he let director Raoul Walsh shoot on locations ... Read More
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