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This item arrived quickly and in good condition. The good guys always win and ride off into the sunset. Thanks to whoever restored these movies.
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There is something oddly comforting about the five movies on this DVD. Perhaps comforting isn't the exact adjective, but it will have to do. The acting is not of the first quality, nor are the plots. It's the whole package I liked.
William Boyd was no great shakes as a cowboy, but he had a great laugh and a nice horse, Topper. Hoppy's boon companions, Lucky (handsome, semi-lecherous) and California (old, grizzled, silly) are pretty standard fare in westerns of the period. Robert Mitchum is in one of the movies--he got his start as a bad guy in Hop Cassidy westerns. There are over-dressed saloon girls whose occupation is never defined exactly because there were mostly kids who saw these originally. There are Indians who look suspiciously like white guys who talk funny in what is supposed to be Red Man lingo. And then there is that boulder strewn California landscape that was the background for countless black and white westerns. After a while you get to know just about every hunk of granite from any angle.
What I find amazing is that when you add up all the faults, it totals movies that are fun to watch. You can almost smell the Saturday matinee popcorn machine and hear the kids screaming for the heroes. And that makes this disk a bargain.
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Watching this dvd of Hopalong Cassidy featuring 5 of his movies transported me back to a time long gone, when as a very young feller my friends & i would eagerly attend the local picture theatre for the saturday afternoon matinee whenever there was a Hoppy movie on. The vision & audio on this dvd is absolutley first class, considering these movies were made around 60 odd years ago it is a credit to the U.S.Television Office Inc. for how they have digitally enhanced & restored these movies.
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The quality is so good that you will think you are watching brand new prints in the best theater on Main Street in the 1940s. Actually it's probably better than that. The intro says these digital re-masters were done by a company named "US Television Office, Inc.". For goodness sake, every person or studio who has old prints TAKE THEM TO "US TELEVISION OFFICE, INC." AND GET THEM RE-MASTERED. Platinum has released 8 volumes of these Hoppy feature films and I own all 8. But for some strange reason, probably only known to some "power lunch" executive, they did not number the volumes...so you will just have to tell the difference by the numbers Amazon gives them. They are worth twice or 3 times the price. There were 66 Hopalong Cassidy films made starring William Boyd, and you can own 40 of them with these 8 volumes at a slim price. The 5 Hoppy adventures on this volume are:
1. Border Patrol 1943
2. Doomed Caravan 1941
3. Fool's Gold 1947
4. Forty Thieves 1944
5. Hidden Gold 1940
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As a child I was in love with TV westerns. Actually, I was in love with horses. I was also fickle. One day it was Trigger, Roy Roger's palomino...then it was Champion, Autry's mount. Silver, Scout, Diablo, Loco all made their bids for my heart, but one big white horse had it always. He was Topper and he was ridden by Hopalong Cassidy (William Boyd), hard-working foreman of the Bar 20 Ranch.
I not only watched Hoppy and Topper faithfully, but was able to go on the sets and sometimes location to watch them shoot the episodes. My great uncle was Sherman L. Lowe, and he wrote many of the Hoppy episodes (he also did Ramar of the Jungle, Gene Autry, and the Cisco Kid...and penned the movie "Cat Man of Paris"...but we don't admit to the latter in polite society ;) )
As a devoted niece, it falls upon me to laud my great uncle (and he often reminded me how great he was!) It couldn't have been easy grinding out all those horse operas, but he loved it, and I think he did himself proud. Of all the westerns on early TV, Hopalong Cassidy was my favorite, and remains so today. The show was well directed, full of action, and starred a man who never over-played his role, and still won the hearts of his viewers. (Oh, did I mention that MANY episodes were VERY well-written?)
Seriously, though...if you are a fan of the 40's and 50's TV westerns, you can't go wrong with Hopalong Cassidy. The show made the most of what it was, and never let the viewers down. Action, adventure, and a big white horse... Ahhhhhhh...that's MY kind of western!
(How'd I do, Uncle Sherm?)
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