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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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Platinum did a great job digitally re-mastering these five black & white movies from the 30's and 40's. Sound and picture quality is very good.
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This review covers all 8 volumes of this Hopalong Cassidy Collection. First, I should admit that I have been a "Hoppy" fan since I first saw his television show in the 50's. I was lucky enough to go to Hoppyland Amusement Park and shake his hand. I had not seen most of these films before ordering this volume.
I was very hesitant to order, because there are 5 films on each disc. I figured they must be lousy transfers, so I just ordered this one at first. I was pleasently surprised by the quality of the transfers, and went on to order the other seven volumes. By the way, I'm watching these on a 65 inch HDTV, and they look very good.
At $6.99 for each volume, how can you go wrong? Hoppy was my favorite because he set the example of how to conduct yourself. Clean living, honest, friendly and fearless. When he does get angry, there isn't another western star that can look as intense and ready to swing into action. He was also the only "good guy" to wear all black. He had the most infectious laugh of any actor I can recall.
These are great sets, and are a bargain not to be missed if you are a fan of Hopalong Cassidy.
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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.
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Hoppy let's us move from the west to the tall timber country in "Riders of the Timerline". He and California Carlson help catch a band of crooks who want to cut down and destroy precious mountain ridges full of trees.
Anyone who is not only a Hoppy fan, can also enjoy the early career of Robert Mitchum. He got his start in the early Hoppy movies and appears always as one of the bad guys in these western classics.
If you like shoot outs, horseback chases through beautiful locations, heros who understand values and principles, funniest side kicks to have ever been filmed, and just plain good American West fun, then you must have this classic collection of Hopalong Cassidy movies. You can let your children watch them and be a kid with them in these clean wholesome movies.
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