Cheyenne - The Complete First Season
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Actor: Clint Walker, L.q. JonesBrand: Warner Brothers
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 1.0; Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 1.0
Format: Black & White, Box set, Closed-captioned, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: Academy Ratio, 1.33:1
Running Time: 631 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-06-06
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Warner Home Video
Product features:
- DVD
- 4 X 3 FULL FRAME
- Slipcase
- 3-Pack
- Multi Disc
- Mono - English
DVD Reviews of Cheyenne - The Complete First Season
DVD Review: Return of "The Big Guy"
Summary: 5 Stars
Was absolutely delighted to find that the "Cheyenne" series were going to be packaged and released by Warner Brothers, and hope like heck they do some of the other WB classics of the 50s/60s like "77 Sunset Strip", "Maverick", "Colt .45" , etc.
Premiering almost simultaneously with "Gunsmoke" in the fall of 1955, Cheyenne (though a "limited run" series) held its on in the Nielson ratings wars and became a runaway hit for Warners from its premiere on.
There were big differences between what was done with "Cheyenne" and what CBS did with "Gunsmoke". Gunsmoke was
"tied down" to Dodge City, Kansas, for the most part...though Matt Dillon did make OCCASIONAL forays out into the "territory"
(to transport prisoners from one jurisdiction to another,for example) but mostly anything that went on, went on in Dodge and involved the nuclear "Gunsmoke' character ensemble.
"Cheyenne", on the other hand, was all over the map. Bodie was a "working drifter" who roamed the west doing all sorts of odd jobs : government mapmaker, Army scout, Cattlemen's Association range detective, cowboy, part-time lawman, etc., and each of these jobs would invariably ride him into some conflict situation. And all of these conflict situations were enhanced by the fact that Warners owned reel after reel of stock footage from dozens of studio-made westerns and liberally added such to "Cheyenne" adventures to fill them out and give them greater "scope" and a more expensive look than most all the other western competition on the tube at that time. If you will notice, Cheyenne has a more varied wardrobe than any other t.v. cowpoke of the period. He has several different jackets of different colors and styles and sometimes his shirts and pants are different from episode to episode. He is also sometimes seen to wear a black hat and, at other times, a gray hat or (most likely, being a B & W show) a tan hat. All of this wardrobe variety has a specific production purpose: at some point in the episode stock footage is going to be inserted whereby the hero in whatever movie this film is taken from wore a certain outfit and Cheyenne has to be dressed appropriately
to MATCH the original. Sometimes the original here is Randolph Scott and sometimes someone else. In any event, at times the match-up only involves less than a minute(and sometimes only SECONDS) of footage, but Bodie must wear that particular clothing ensemble to make the editing trick work when it is time for it to do so.
All this padding is, for the most part, brilliantly done. In this first season collection there are footage "lifts" from
Errol Flynn's "Dodge City" and "Virginia City" and, in a later season, in an episode where Bodie is held prisoner by Indians and forced to helplessly watch the Battle of the Little Big Horn, the battle itself is lifted from "They Died With Their Boots On" with only the Flynn close-ups removed.
This production technique served Warners well and always insured that "Cheyenne" had a lot more excitement and rousing action and adventure in it than anything Matt, Chester, Festus, Doc or Kitty incurred. Another plus was that big Clint Walker
was a good actor who well understood "eye work" (acting with your eyes), body language, and underplaying a role (rather than "hamming it up" in, say, William Shatner style). Walker's performance is solid and he gives Bodie an image of courage, integrity, principles, ethics, and inner strength that embody to perfection what the idea of the Western Man was perceived to be like. But another touch was added as well : Walker also instilled, through masterfully executed nuance, a wistful air of loneliness to the character....a touch that drove female viewers wild (that, and the episodes that contrived to have the muscular Walker appear shirtless onscreen). Of all the western characters from television in the fifties and early sixties, Clint Walker's Cheyenne Bodie was...and is...far and away one of the most popular and memorable.
This DVD collection is a great way to "hook up" with an old buddy if one is of the boomer generation, AND is an excellent introduction to Cheyenne to the younger crowd who haven't yet made his acquaintance. You get the pre-Maverick James Garner here in three episodes as well, two times as a cavalry officer and once as a minister (Reverend Brett Maverick??? Say Whaaat??).
Now I would encourage one and all to buy this set because that will make the WB issue a SECOND SEASON collection, and THAT...my friends...is what I seriously want to get my hot little hands on. You see, the second season of "Cheyenne" produced one of the most well-remembered television episodes OF the 1950s, a long-time "boomer" favorite...the hair-raising
"Big Ghost Basin". This was one of those sleep-with-the-lights-on-and-a-butcher-knife-under-your-pillow "thriller-dillers" that
is as vividly remembered by "boomers" as the episodes "The Hungry House", "The Grim Reaper", Or "Pidgeons From Hell" on "Thriller", or "To Serve Man" on "Twilight Zone". "Big Ghost Basin" was adapted from a short story,"Nights of Terror", by Steve Frazee, one of the best western writers of the fifties.
It concerns cattlemen concerned by a serious rustler threat in their area, as well as "something else". That something else is called "the campfire killer" because IT attacks and kills...always by night...all pickets or cattle guards who are gathered around campfires. It crushes humans, pulverizes them, and leaves only corpses and outsized bizarre-looking tracks in its wake. On the show, it comes down to Cheyenne vs. "the thing" in the end. Saw a VHS version of "Big Ghost Basin" recorded off of cable a couple of years back and was not disappointed. Oh, the make-up was a tad cheesy by today's standards, but the creature is only shown for a matter of seconds...and in poor light (on purpose)...so it doesn't come across as irredeemably fakey. In toto, "Big Ghost" stands the test of time quite well.
So I urge you , tv fans, western fans, get out there and BUY this first season of Cheyenne....so I can hopefully get to see "Cheyenne : Season Two, Episode 14" by Christmas!!!!! (Better yet...by HALLOWEEN!!).
Description of Cheyenne - The Complete First Season
Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 06/06/2006 Run time: 631 minutes Rating: NrBestsellers in DVD
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