The Big Country
by William Wyler
List Price:
Our Price: $10.99
You Save: $3.99 (27%)
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Buy Used: from $6.39 (click here)
Category: DVD
See more DVD details
Buy this DVD movie at online store in your country
Canada
Canada
DVD details
Actor: Burl Ives, Carroll Baker, Charlton Heston, Gregory Peck, Jean SimmonsDirector: William Wyler
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; Spanish (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; French (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); Spanish (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen, 2.35:1
Running Time: 167 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2001-03-20
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
DVD Reviews of The Big Country
DVD Review: One of my all time favorites -- portraying great values
Summary: 5 Stars
This is truly another classic Western movie. What's so great about this one is that it highlights honor and dignity and other great values. It's not a macho type Western, but truly a great film. Great cast and great story. A bit long, but definitely worth watching.DVD Review: Inferior quality DVD
Summary: 1 Stars
I bought this movie because it ia my favorite western, however after watching it without any problems, it will no longer play. It was handled with the utmost care, no scratches, didn't touch surface, next time I inserted it, just would not load. All of my other DVD's work fine.The Big CountryDVD Review: Eastern gentleman tries to tame the wild west
Summary: 5 Stars
There have been many fine reviews of this film already. Thus, I will largely confine my remarks to one of the themes of the film: the incompatabilities that most contributed to the breakup of marriage plans between Jim McKay (Gregory Peck) and Pat Terrill(Carroll Baker). But, first, I would like to point out that, although not hinted in the film, the feud between the Hannasseys and Terrills was likely rooted in ethnic and religious bigotry. Hannassey is an Irish name, whereas the Terrills were most likely of English ancestry. This fits the general perception of Irish immigrants as uncouth ruffians.
Pat soon figured out that Jim was determined to be his own man in this big country, not just her father's puppet. Strike one against him. She also discovered that Jim was too aloof to the rough and tumble western ranch culture for her liking. Not only did he show minimal hostility toward the rough hazing reception by the Hannassey "boys", he refused to cooperate with the baiting challenges of riding a notoriously untamable horse or brawling with Steve(Charleton Heston), who also had the hots for Pat. The latter 2 challengers he eventually met, but only when there was no crowd to make him a spectacle, win or lose. Unlike some reviewers, I don't see Jim's aloofness from these challenges as necessasarily a sign of superior nobleness. Rather, they seem prudent responses. Also, he was much influenced by his father's death in a duel over what, in retrospect, was a rather trifling matter. It was prudent to try not to show great fear nor anger when faced with a gang of ruffian hazers in an unfamiliar territory and culture. It was prudent not to risk making fool of himself before a crowd, including his fiancee, in trying to ride a horse hinted at as being very wild, nor was it gentlemanly to engage in a fistfight over the seemingly trivial question of whether he had been lost in his solo survey of the ranch. Later, when learning of the kidnaping of his new love, Julie(Jean Simmons) by the Hannasseys, he ignored prudence and played the role of potential hero and peacemaker or dead man. The lines between courage and foolhardiness and between cowardice and prudence will always be blurred in certain circumstances.
Various reviewers have made the point that a fundamental difference between Jim and Pat was that Jim believed that what he was really like and had accomplished was more important, whereas Pat believed how others saw you was more important than what you were really like. The film biases our opinion to see Jim's ethos as the better of the two, but remember that Peck was a coproducer of the film. As I see it, in the real world, both are important. Reputation often makes the difference between success and failure in the business world, whether based on fact or fiction. However, Pat should have understood that Jim had prudent reasons, consistent with his aloofish personality, for responding to these challenges as he did. Afterall, as an ex-sea captain, Jim was used to exhibiting a degree of aloofness. Interestingly, when it came to sharing water rights that he now technically owned, something really important to all his neighbors, Jim was not aloof, declaring all neighboring parties had equal access to his water as they had under Julie's father. Julie, as a non-cattlewoman heir to her father's land, had been too weak and too connected with the Terrills to fully enforce the tradition of equal water access. Hopefully, now in league with Jim and presumably disconnected with the Terrills as well as the Hennasseys, the pair would be strong enough to enforce their critical rule.
DVD Review: My purchase of Big Country
Summary: 5 Stars
The Movie, The Big Country, one of my all time favorites, The price was Great and I received it much sooner than I had expected.
Thanks, Carolyn
DVD Review: One of the best in the westerm genre.
Summary: 5 Stars
With as title like this, you would expect a big cast of big actors, and this film delivers. It gets center stage in my DVD cabinet, as one of my favorite westerns, and near the top of my alltime favorite movies.
Description of The Big Country
One of Hollywood's greatest directors teams with a cast of incredible screen legends for this bold,sweeping tale of a ship's captain who ventures west to find a hotbed of jealousy, hatred and dangerous rivalries. As the reluctant hero is thrust into the maelstrom, he must summon all of his resolveto save not only his own life, but also the life of the woman he loves. Four-time Academy Award?(r) winner* William Wyler directs this action-packed adventure that triumphs as "a work of art" (Motion Picture Herald). Starring Gregory Peck, Charlton Heston, Jean Simmons, Chuck Connors and Burl Ives (in an Oscar?(r)-winning** performance), this magnificently entertaining epic will take your breath away with unbridled suspense, exhilarating excitement and explosive drama on a grand scale.William Wyler directed this epic Western, about the clash of East and West, intellect and action. Gregory Peck stars as a sea captain who moves way out West to marry Carroll Baker and become part of the ranch owned by her father (Charles Bickford). But he discovers that daddy's top hand (Charlton Heston) carries a torch for Baker and doesn't particularly like Peck stepping into his place. Peck also finds himself caught in the midst of a power struggle between Bickford and his surly neighbor, Burl Ives (and his reprehensibly bullying son, Chuck Connors). This long, sprawling tale works because its characters are played by movie stars who know how to command the big screen in a big story. --Marshall Fine
General DVDs
DVD Video
- Action & Adventure
- African American Cinema
- Animation
- Anime & Manga
- Art House & International
- Classics
- Comedy
- Cult Movies
- Documentary
- Drama
- Educational
- Fitness & Yoga
- Gay & Lesbian
- Horror
- Kids & Family
- Military & War
- Music Video & Concerts
- Musicals & Performing Arts
- Mystery & Suspense
- Science Fiction & Fantasy
- Special Interests
- Sports
- Television
- Westerns
Bestsellers in General DVDs
Louis L'Amour's The SackettsWarner Brothers; Release date: 2006-05-30; DVD
Best price: $10.99
Price in other shops:
Fox Western Classics (Rawhide / The Gunfighter / Garden of Evil)TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT; Release date: 2008-05-13; DVD
Best price: $10.99
Price in other shops:
TombstoneRelease date: 1997-12-02; DVD
Best price: $9.95
Price in other shops:
The Quiet Man (Collector's Edition)WAYNE,JOHN; Release date: 2002-10-22; DVD
Best price: $6.83
Price in other shops:
3:10 to Yuma (Widescreen Edition)LION'S GATE ENTERTAINMENT; Release date: 2008-01-08; DVD
Best price: $5.88
Price in other shops:
Lonesome DoveWELLSPRING/GENIUS; Release date: 2008-08-05; DVD
Best price: $12.73
Price in other shops:
![How the West Was Won (Special Edition) [Blu-ray] Image](/images/How-the-West-Was-Won-Special-Edition-Blu-ray-B0018O50VQ-X.jpg)
How the West Was Won (Special Edition) [Blu-ray]Warner Brothers; Release date: 2008-09-09; DVD
Best price: $23.00
Price in other shops:
Centennial: The Complete SeriesCENTENNIAL: THE COMPLETE SERIES (DVD MOVIE); Release date: 2008-07-29; DVD
Best price: $27.99
Price in other shops:
HudNEWMAN,PAUL; Release date: 2003-12-02; DVD
Best price: $4.33
Price in other shops:
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT; Release date: 2006-06-06; DVD
Best price: $10.67
Price in other shops:
Similar DVDs, VHS Video, Audio CDs
The SearchersRelease date: 1997-10-29; DVD
Best price: $7.49
Price in other shops:
El Cid (Two-Disc Deluxe Edition) (The Miriam Collection)WELLSPRING/GENIUS; Release date: 2008-01-29; DVD
Best price: $9.98
Price in other shops:
Broken ArrowTWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT; Release date: 2007-05-22; DVD
Best price: $6.58
Price in other shops:
High Noon (Collector's Edition)Lions Gate; Release date: 2002-10-22; DVD
Best price: $7.49
Price in other shops:
ShaneParamount; Release date: 2000-08-15; DVD
Best price: $4.45
Price in other shops:
Red RiverWAYNE,JOHN; Release date: 1997-11-19; DVD
Best price: $6.57
Price in other shops:
The Far CountryRelease date: 2003-05-06; DVD
Best price: $2.50
Price in other shops:
Friendly PersuasionRelease date: 2000-12-05; DVD
Best price: $12.84
Price in other shops:
Yellow SkyPECK,GREGORY; Release date: 2006-05-23; DVD
Best price: $8.16
Price in other shops:
Duel in the SunTWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT; Release date: 2004-05-25; DVD
Best price: $2.59
Price in other shops: