Classic Western Roundup-2 - Disk 2 - DVD9 - The Cimarron Kid (1952) - The Man from the Alamo (1953) [DDR]
THE CIMARRON KID (1952)
The Cimarron Kid is a 1952 Western film starring Audie Murphy.
Bill Doolan (Audie Murphy) is released from jail and is going home on the train when it is held up by his boyhood friends, the Dalton Gang.
Doolin finds himself accused of helping the crime and winds up an outlaw.
CAST:-
Audie Murphy as Bill Doolin, also known as The Cimarron Kid
Beverly Tyler as Carrie Roberts
James Best as Bitter Creek Dalton
Yvette Dugay as Rose
John Hudson as Dynamite Dick Dalton
Hugh O'Brian as Red Buck
Roy Roberts as Pat Roberts
David Wolfe as Sam Swanson
Noah Beery Jr as Bob Dalton
Leif Erickson as Marshal John Sutton
John Hubbard as George Weber
Frank Silvera as Stacey Marshall
Directed by Budd Boetticher
Produced by Ted Richmond
The film was the first Western from Budd Boetticher, who later became famous for his work in the genre. “I became a western director because they thought I looked like one and they thought I rode better than anyone else," said Boetticher later. "And I didn’t know anything about the west.” It was also the director's first film in color and his first under a long term contract with Universal Pictures.
In the original script, Murphy's character died at the end of the movie. However, the studio decided to change it to reflect the actors's rising popularity.
Audie Murphy takes on the role of Bill Doolin who is unjustly accused by corrupt railroad officials of helping rob a train with his old friends the Daltons and their gang. After being forced to become a fugitive from law, Bill Doolin, decides to join up with his old gang. The Doolin gang then decide to rob some banks. They attempt to rob two banks in Coffeyville, Kansas but the robberies do not go as planned. Several gang members are killed but as luckily, Doolin escapes. He is made the new leader and the gang begins a new series of robberies. During a bold and daring train robbery, most of the gang is killed but Doolin is persuaded by his girlfriend to give himself up.
THE MAN FROM THE ALAMO (1953)
The Man From the Alamo is a 1953 Technicolor Western directed by Budd Boetticher, starring Glenn Ford, Julie Adams, Hugh O'Brian, and Guy Williams.
CAST: -
Glenn Ford as John Stroud
Julie Adams as Beth Anders
Chill Wills as John Gage
Hugh O'Brian as Lt. Tom Lamar
Victor Jory as Jess Wade
Neville Brand as Dawes
John Daheim as Cavish
Myra Marsh as Ma Anders
Jeanne Cooper as Kate Lamar
Marc Cavell as Carlos
Edward Norris as Mapes
Guy Williams as Sergeant McCauley
Dennis Weaver as Reb
Stuart Whitman as Orderly
Frank Wilcox as Texas Patriot at Meeting
Brett Halsey as Courier
Directed by Budd Boetticher
Produced by Aaron Rosenberg
Screenplay by Steve Fisher, D.D. Beauchamp
Story by Niven Busch, Oliver Crawford
SYNOPSIS:- THe Man from the Alamo (1953)
During the siege at the Alamo, John Stroud (Glenn Ford) is chosen to leave the fort and warn the families of the mission's defenders of the impending arrival of General Santa Anna. But when everyone around him is wiped out by the Mexicans, Stroud has no proof that he was ordered to leave his post, and is therefore branded a coward. Since he cannot now expose a gang of turncoats, he infiltrates them instead. Can he save a wagon train of refugees from Wade's Guerillas
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS:-
Video Codec: MPEG-2
Video Bitrate: 5947 kbps
Video Resolution: 720x480
Video Aspect Ratio:1.333:1
Frames Per Second:29.970
Audio Codec: AC3
Audio Bitrate: 192kb/s CBR 48000 Hz
Audio Streams: 2
Audio Languages: English
Subtitles: None
Ripped by: Trinidad [DDR]
Duration: 2:43:14
