Gunsmoke - The First Season
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Actor: Amanda Blake, Dennis Weaver, James Arness, Milburn StoneBrand: Paramount
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
Format: Black & White, Box set, Closed-captioned, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 1051 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-07-17
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Paramount
DVD Reviews of Gunsmoke - The First Season
DVD Review: gunsmoke ---- who says you can't relive your younger days again
Summary: 5 Stars
gunsmoke the first year. all 39 episodes in black and white on 6 dvds. I purchased this for my 70+ year old brother- in law. He and father had watched gunsmoke reruns for many years. my brother in law could not believe gunsmoke was available for purchase. he lives alone now and he watched all 39 episodes in 2 days. he is now in the process of watching them again. i would recommend this dvd to any old western lover. DVD Review: Review of Gunsmoke DVDs
Summary: 5 Stars
Gift for husband, excellent shape and he loved them....Miss Kitty is so young in those older versions! And these had Chester in them so hubby was happy!DVD Review: Nostalgic western
Summary: 4 Stars
First of all, I need to say that I like western movies and television, with all their hokey conventions. And in comparison with other TV westerns of the period, this one was very good. There was something downright comfortable about it. But there are a few things that I con't quite understand.
What exactly was Miss Kitty's source of income? She wore some pretty fancy low cut gowns. Was she a "soiled dove," in the parlance of the Old West? Was she Matt's main squeeze or did she go upstairs with any of the boys who had the price, like Laurie in "Lonesome Dove?"
Why was there never any horse manure in the street? And how did they keep those streets unrutted with packed sand?
How come the town and the Long Branch Saloon didn't look anything like the pictures of Dodge City from the 1800s? The real Long Branch was a narrow and dark hole of a place.
Why doesn't the countryside around Dodge look anything like the topography and flora around the real Dodge City? The plants we see appear to be more native to California than Kansas.
Oh, there are just lots of questions, but these will suffice. The answers have to do with what viewers and censors would tolerate when this series was made, and with where studios could film. The Dodge City we see here is an idyllic place, a place of myth, of the imagination, not of reality. Had they stuck with stark reality, people wouldn't have watched.
So accept "Gunsmoke" for what it was: how we wanted the west to be.
DVD Review: Gunsmoke, Season 1 DVD
Summary: 5 Stars
So glad to be able to find this for my 85 year old father. I ordered it 4 days before his birthday and it arrived on time!DVD Review: Gunsmoke: tv as good as it gets
Summary: 5 Stars
We've been pleased with the quality of these dvds: crisp black and white and good sound. And of course, Gunsmoke itself is some of the best television ever: taut plots, nuanced character studies, solid acting, careful attention to detail in the sets and costumes. I feared watching these old shows might be an exercise in nostalgia that would become boring, especially compared to today's rapid camera cuts and lavish production values, but I was wrong. They're as exciting and compelling as when my family first watched them. The human interest angles and the personality types these shows explore are still with us.
Description of Gunsmoke - The First Season
Marshall Matt Dillon is responsible for keeping the law and respectability in Dodge City in this western action-drama. Gunsmoke captured the courage, character and spirit of the Western Frontier.A TV series doesn't get a more auspicious launch than did Gunsmoke, the first episode of which, broadcast on Sept. 10, 1955, was introduced by none other than John Wayne ("Some of you may have seen me before"). In this historic prologue (included in this first-season round-up), Wayne hypes Gunsmoke as "honest, adult, and realistic." Of James Arness, starring as United States Marshal Matt Dillon, Wayne predicts, "He'll be a big star, so you might as well get used to him." Viewers did more than get used to him. "Mr. Dillon," as his sidekick Chester (Dennis Weaver) calls him, became a television icon who literally stood tall as a steadfast, incorruptible symbol of justice through two of America's most tumultuous decades. The Bravo network ranked him among TV's 50 greatest characters. Gunsmoke was television's longest running Western, and Arness's 20-year stint as Dillon would be matched only by Kelsey Grammer's Frasier Crane (and, by the way, Milburn Stone, who costarred with Arness as crusty, "vinegar face" Doc Adams).
For those who grew up with Gunsmoke's full-hour color episodes, this first season will be something of a revelation. The show is in black and white, and, at a half-hour, lean and gritty. Not that Dodge City is Deadwood, by any means, but its reputation as "the Gomorrah of the plains," as Dillon notes in the first episode, is well earned. Most episodes begin with Dillon setting the stage, Dragnet-style, like a frontier Joe Friday. "A man will choose his gun quicker to make a point than he'll draw on his logic," he ruminates at one point. "That's where I come in." Gunsmoke has its share of shootouts and traditional Western action, but the best episodes are gripping psychological dramas. In "Reward for Matt," the embittered widow of a racist Dillon was forced to gun down puts a price on his head. In "The Killer," Dillon exposes a gunslinger (guest star Charles Bronson) for the coward he is. Even an otherwise light-hearted holiday episode, "Magnus," in which Chester's backwards, backwoods brother comes to visit, is darkened by a twisted man gunning for "wicked" dance hall woman Miss Kitty (Amanda Blake), queen of the Longbranch saloon (and a close friend of the marshal-just how close is only hinted at). John Wayne was right: More than 50 years later, Gunsmoke remains "the best thing of its kind to come along." --Donald Liebenson
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