John Wayne - An American Icon Collection (Seven Sinners/ The Shepherd of the Hills/ Pittsburgh/ The Conqueror/ Jet Pilot)
by Dick Powell, Henry Hathaway, Josef von Sternberg, Jules Furthman, Lewis Seiler
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Actor: Betty Field, Janet Leigh, John Wayne, Marlene Dietrich, Susan HaywardDirector: Dick Powell, Henry Hathaway, Josef von Sternberg, Jules Furthman, Lewis Seiler
Brand: Universal Studios
Writer: George Owen
Writer: Grover Jones
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: Color, Dolby, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 501 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-05-30
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Universal Studios
DVD Reviews of John Wayne - An American Icon Collection (Seven Sinners/ The Shepherd of the Hills/ Pittsburgh/ The Conqueror/ Jet Pilot)
DVD Review: John (Genghis Khan) Wayne
Summary: 5 Stars
We just watched "The Conqueror" with John Wayne as Temujen as he became Genghis Khan.
As soon as he spoke his first line, you knew it was John, we all laughed at the same time. You can't miss it.
We loved the spectacle and grandeur of the scenes. The scenery and musical score were wonderful. Highly recommended.
DVD Review: John Wayne, an American Icon
Summary: 4 Stars
This was a gift from me to me. I am a huge John Wayne fan. All of the films in this collection were ones that I wanted to have. The collection is quite diverse. In other words, a fine balance of westerns, war movies and some surprises.DVD Review: Jet Pilot
Summary: 3 Stars
I purchased this collection for "The Shepherd of the Hills" which is one of my favorite movies. Its poetry and performances, as well as the beautiful technicolor locations, make this a must see especially since it is one of Wayne's lesser known, but finest, films.
"Jet Pilot" (released in 1957) struck me as a script that didn't go through enough development before filming. There are too many of the same sequences of Wayne and the beautiful Janet Leigh flying around. Her opening sequences are among the sexiest I have ever seen and make it worth viewing the film. I read that Howard Hughes actively participated in many of his films' developement. He liked imbuing scripts with sensual scenes and it certainly is apparent here. According to IMDb, "Jet Pilot" was filmed from Dec. 1949 to Feb. 1950 by RKO. Checking Wayne's other films of this era, my best guess is that it came between "Sands of Iwo Jima" and "Rio Grande." It's a very flawed film but I still liked it, probably because of Janet Leigh's incredible sexiness in it. Actually her chemistry with John Wayne is very good. "Jet Pilot" had the makings of a very good film if it had a better developed script.
DVD Review: GREAT Movies!
Summary: 5 Stars
I like John Wayne and will watch all the movies on this DVD, but I purchased it so I would have a copy of "Shepherd of the Hills," which I consider one of his best, and one of THE best, movies ever made. Absolutely GREAT!DVD Review: "I Love Ya, Cash - So Help Me I Love Ya!"
Summary: 5 Stars
This one gets five stars based upon one film in the collection: "Pittsburgh." To me, Wayne's portrayal of "Pitt" Markham has always exemplified his swaggering, brash, chip-on-the-shoulder, on-screen persona that over a long career came to represent America itself. The character's progression from a young, self-centered, win-at-all-costs industrialist to that of a humiliated factory worker and then back again to the "sadder-but-wiser" executive/partner has always seemed to me to be a story well worth telling (and applying to modern-day life). Some might say this one is sentimental and propaganda-driven. If so, I say: So Be It!!! Give me more of this old-time, propaganda-driven sentimentality! All in all, this is a marvelous film that tells its tale with humor, sincerity, and fun. I've loved it for nearly 50 years, and I still watch it frequently to experience its wonderful message.
Description of John Wayne - An American Icon Collection (Seven Sinners/ The Shepherd of the Hills/ Pittsburgh/ The Conqueror/ Jet Pilot)
John Wayne remains, without a doubt, a legend of the silver screen and one of Hollywood's most talented and versatile leading men of all time. See "The Duke," with his rugged good looks and undeniable charm, take command of the screen in the amazing collection of five unique films from his long and illustrious film career. This must-own set confirms John Wayne's status as a true American icon!He was no one's (including his own) idea of a great actor--one senses that the one Oscar he won, for True Grit in 1970, was as much for his longevity as his talent--but "icon" is an apt description for John "Duke" Wayne, who starred in scores of movies in a career that spanned 50 years. Five of them are collected on John Wayne - An American Icon Collection, a two-disc, no-frills (as in no bonus material) set offered at a very reasonable price. Ranging from 1940 to 1957, these items reveal that although he didn't have a lot of range ("I play John Wayne in pretty much every film I do," he once admitted), Wayne was at least willing to tackle other genres besides the Westerns with which he's so closely identified; here he portrays a coal miner, a moonshiner, and a legendary warrior, along with the more expected military roles. As for the quality of the films, let's just say that "good" and "entertaining" don't always go on the same page, and the set at least has plenty of the latter. Seven Sinners ('40) is the best of the lot, with Marlene Dietrich sly and radiant as the delightfully named Bijou Blanche, a South Pacific cabaret singer who tantalizes naval officer Wayne. At the other end of the spectrum is The Conqueror ('55), generally regarded as Wayne's worst feature ever, but even it is a campy hoot. Sporting a Fu Manchu 'stache and many silly hats and delivering some preposterously stilted dialogue ("Hi, Mom" becomes "I greet you, my mother!"), Wayne plays Mongol warlord Temujin, soon to become Genghis Khan, who's obsessed with a beautiful princess (Susan Hayward as a Tartar? Mayonnaise is more like it) who just happens to be the daughter of the man responsible for the death of Temujin's father. Pittsburgh ('42), again pairing Wayne with the luminous Dietrich, is considerably better, charting the rise, fall, and redemption of miner-turned-captain-of-industry Charles "Pittsburgh" Markham in a story that's both humorous and dramatic before devolving into flag-waving World War II propaganda. Neither The Shepherd of the Hills ('41), sentimental hokum about a clan of drawling, superstitious Ozark hicks, nor Jet Pilot ('57), with a pre-Psycho Janet Leigh as a Russian spy (!), ranks as what you'd call a classic--indeed, there are no classics to be found anywhere here--but the Duke, always a man's man, probably wouldn't mind. "When people say a John Wayne picture got bad reviews," he said, "I always wonder if they know it's a redundant sentence, but hell, I don't care. People like my pictures and that's all that counts." --Sam Graham
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