Gunsmoke: The Second Season, Vol. 2
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Actor: Dennis Weaver, James Arness, Ken Curtis, Milburn StoneBrand: ARNESS,JAMES
Performer: Amanda Blake
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Box set, Color, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 480 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-05-27
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Paramount
DVD Reviews of Gunsmoke: The Second Season, Vol. 2
DVD Review: got all the 635 episodes
Summary: 1 Stars
got ALL 635 episodes in good to great quality from planetdvdstore-cost one fifty-bootlegged-screw paramount--they want to haunt me to my grave on their over priced releases??let em---they wont release them at a fair price?well i found a place that gives me all the episodes---they can kiss my grits--do i feel guilty buying bootlegged copies?lolololoolololo screw the greedy bstrds at paramount--im 65----cant wait 20 yrs and 2 thsnd bucks for the episodesDVD Review: Gunsmoke-The second season Vol.2
Summary: 5 Stars
I got this for my boss for his Christmas. He loves Gunsmoke. I will continue to get him a different one for his Birthday or Christmas or even both depends if there is some other movie that he like instead.DVD Review: Gunsmoke: The Second Season, Vol. 2
Summary: 5 Stars
Glad this season is finally out on dvd. The split volumes may cost a little more, but worth it. DVD Review: Great series bad marketing
Summary: 5 Stars
Gunsmoke is the ultimate Western. Every episode is a classic most of which were written by John Meston.
However, I would strongly encourage everyone to write to Paramount Home Entertainment and complain as to these silly half season releases.
This is the letter I just sent to them:
I am sure that a visit to Amazon.com would convince you that your company's marketing of TV by the half season is greatly unpopular.
As a fan of CBS's Gunsmoke, I lament in the fact that it might take your company 20 to 30 years to release this fine series in increments of half years.
There is a complete logic disconnect when CBS series such as Hawaii 50 are still being released in whole years.
I bought the first complete season of Gunsmoke and I bought your Gunsmoke Season 2 vol. 1 and Gunsmoke Season 2, vol. 2 (and I am buying The Untouchables and Perry Mason in this same silly 1/2 season format). I beg you to reconsider this misguided marketing scheme. It has garnered your company scathing comments at Amazon.com. Don't be petty, please return to selling these programs by the whole season. Also please take into consideration that a 20 year series should be released at some sort of reasonable pace. At 4 seasons per year it would still take CBS/Paramount 5 years to release the series. Sometimes it just makes you wonder who your company has that makes their decisions. I am not complaining about the price. I understand you need to make a profit (we're not socialist). I wish CBS/Paramount would consider that if it released series such as Gunsmoke, Perry Mason and The Untouchables in whole seasons at a faster release pace, you would gain:
1) Better PR with your consumers (at the moment your popularity is about par with Chinese cat food manufacturers);
2) Your company would re-establish its brand on these titles - driving black market products into the shadows where they belong - if it is going to take you 30 years to release Gunsmoke - or if you choose to discontinue the release because of lack of interest (caused by your asinine marketing) - then obviously the black marketer will provide the product the public wants and which you will not or refuse to provide.
Its too bad that men such as William Paley are dead. People with vision would see that short term marketing schemes for a company may not always be the goal of a company that expects to be around for the long term.
These are black and white programs from the 1950's & 60's that are just rotting on your shelf. Release them quickly - make a small profit (not much I admit) and build a better image for your company (you know back in the day when CBS was a proud company producing decent programming under a set of established principals, standards and ethics).
DVD Review: Gunsmoke--Great Show
Summary: 5 Stars
Gunsmoke--even afer 50 years it's a great show to watch. The 30 minute episodes bring back fond memories of Saturday nights in the 1950's, watching my first true love--Chester.
Description of Gunsmoke: The Second Season, Vol. 2
Marshal 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.Dodge City has a bad reputation. It's "the wickedest, cruelest town in Kansas," some Wichita yokel notes in the episode, "Sweet and Sour." "No decent man could stand it more than a day." Marshall Matt Dillon (James Arness) is a decent man, but he's got a reputation, too. Residents know not to mess with him. When he tells one alcohol-fueled miscreant to give up his gun in the episode, "Chester's Murder," the man instantly complies, "Sure, I ain't that drunk." But it's not just his marksmanship that distinguishes Dillon. When a former Army officer shows up in Dodge angling for Dillon's job in "The Man Who Would Be Marshal," Dillon demonstrates his keen grasp of human nature. Rather than arrest a rowdy sodbuster, he allows him to "blow off steam," explaining, "That's his way of reminding himself he's a man." But the psychological toll of the dark and bloody side of Dillon's job is the focus of "Bloody Hands," one of the best episodes in this collection of season-concluding episodes. Dillon kills three bank robbers. It's self-defense, but that doesn't stop the nightmares, and he resigns. It's up to his trusty sidekick, Chester (Dennis Weaver) to appeal to his sense of justice. The bad guys, he pleads, "gotta be stopped, and that's all." And stop 'em Dillon does in his own inimitable style. After punching one man, his friends complain, "You hit him with your fist. We don't like it." Dillon coolly replies, "How do you know? You haven't tried it yet" As another bad man remarks in "Cheap Labor," "That ain't no way for a lawman to talk." Dillon still has a little to learn about women. In "Sweet and Sour," he insists that Miss Kitty (Amanda Blake), who becomes the co-owner of the Longbranch saloon, hire Rena, a pretty newcomer to town. "A pretty face will throw you any time," Kitty cautions. "Her kind spells nothing but trouble." Sure enough, four men are dead after Rena instigates fights over her. Gunsmoke set a new standard for the television western. Dillon is occasionally wrong, innocent people are killed, and not all episodes end with justice served or the expected happy ending. In one episode, a photographer (Sebastian "Mr. French" Cabot) sets up his camera in Dodge City. "It's authenticity I'm after," he insists. In these half-hour black and white episodes, Gunsmoke achieved it. --Donald Liebenson
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