5 GREAT made-for-TV movies
344670
5 GREAT made-for-TV movies!!  If you liked Alien Nation, you will LOVE this DVD.  Continues off where the TV show left off.
1934863
One of the greatest movies for the whole family ever made...and true also.
4190432
I've got quite a movie collection, and this 5-pack really saves a lot of room on the bookshelf.

And, if you want to binge-watch, you're all set!
903444
I caught this movie on TV last night after a hiatus of several years.  It was a made-for-TV film run on TNT, and should be shown a lot more often.  It could have stood on its own as a feature in any theater as a great piece of movie making.

A gang of outlaws headed by the notorious Blackjack Britton lams out of town after a bank robbery and gets lost in a dust storm with the posse on their trail.  They take a wrong turn, evading the posse, and come upon a spooky little place with a gated entrance guarded by an ancient Indian, who turns out to be keeping more than one gate.  Was it luck or fate that brought them here?  The townspeople all seem peculiarly docile.  The sheriff wears a badge but not a gun.  And Sonny, the youngest of the outlaw band and addicted to dime western novels, not an outlaw himself but who went along for the ride with his uncle, one of the gang members, realizes that the sheriff is a dead ringer for Wild Bill Hickock and the sheriff's friends look exactly like Doc Holliday, Billy the Kid, Jesse James and Lefty Slade, all dead for years.  In fact, that's just who they turn out to be, and the town, called Refuge, is nowhere on earth, but is actually Purgatory, a mid-world created for people who are neither good enough to be admitted to Heaven nor bad enough to be condemned to Hell.  Purgatory is their last chance to set themselves right before their final sentencing.  But as the sheriff tells Sonny, Refuge is a place of hard rules: no cussing, no fighting, no rioting, no stealing, no violent outbursts no matter what the provocation -- and one of the sheriff's friends finds out tragically just what the penalty for breaking those rules is.

Blackjack Britton and his gang see Refuge as a place to cut loose and raise all kinds of mayhem, and for a while the sheriff tries to deal with the situation through polite admonitions.  But the sheriff and his friends realize that some evil is too entrenched to be dealt with by patience and docility, and sometimes one must resort to extreme measures, if not for his own benefit, then for the good of the people he must protect.  And who knows, maybe at times giving evil people a taste of their own medicine is justified.  As a wily old stagecoach driver observes, "The Creator may be tough, but He ain't blind."

Uli Edel's direction and Gordon T. Dawson's script lift the movie beyond what might have been a banal western into the truly sublime, helped by a superb cast that includes Sam Shepard as Wild Bill Hickock, Eric Roberts in what may be his finest performance as Blackjack Britton, Randy Quaid as Doc Holliday, Donnie Wahlberg as Billy the Kid, J.D. Souther as Jesse James, Brad Rowe as Sonny, and Peter Stormare as Blackjack's henchman and Sonny's evil uncle Cavin Guthrie.  It's a perfect little gem of a western, of the kind they don't make any more, with the added treat of a tender love story running through it all.

Judy Lind
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These are movies that I like to watch again and again.  I am fascinated watching both of these movies often.
2164547
They did a great production of this story. I bought it mainly because Leonard Nimoy was in it, and I would love to buy some of his movies that were made for TV that I can't find in DVD, like for instance THE SUN ALSO RISES. I have all the ones that are available.
1689579
Great stories, great acting, the best characters return.  Now if they would just release volume 2 of the movie collection.
4755764
Andy Griffith was a great actor in mysteries.  There are other tv movies he made and I hope you put them out on DVD.  The suspense of this film goes on until the surprise ending.  Also one of Nick Nolte's first roles.  Another one you should put out on dvd is Jack Klugman in "One of My Wives is Missing"  I know many people who would love to see these tv movies.
1200446
while there are four movies in this set my favorite without a doubt was Cat On A Hot Tin Roof, how can you go wrong with Paul Newman and Elizabeth Taylor. This movie alone would have been worth the price of the set, but then you throw in two movies with the handsome and talented James Dean, plus one of Marlon Brando's most iconic roles and you have movie magic! Well worth the price.
249571
These are 1980s American made-for-TV movies, which should provide a hint about the quality, which ranges from below average to average, in my opinion.  Still, it's always nice to see people like Peter Ustinov and Bette Davis on the screen.
2188491
I love these movies! Full of action, great fight scenes, some of the best car chase scenes I've ever seen, and the storyline of the movies is great too. Great movies for anyone that enjoys good action movies
3007258
When you watch this anthology you realize how things have changed in terms of cinema over the past decades. These movies are pieces of art. Some of the not-so-into-alien audience might get bored because of the "slowness" of the movies, or the lack of explosions and special effects, but the "thriller" concept in this movies is amazing. The movies would get a 4.5 stars from me. The packaging, even though it looks pretty cool, is a little taller because of the hard case than the rest of blu-rays, which makes it harder to store in a regular drawer-case. The extra features are not that good though, but to be able to have the original and special editions of all the films makes it a pretty good deal.
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Writer Larry McMurtry excels at creating rich, engaging characters that snug up to you like a pair of well-worn leather boots.  Gus McCrae, played by Robert Duvall, is one of the best-written roles I've ever seen on film.  Hats off to Duvall for playing the part so brilliantly.  But that's just one of many memorable characters in this western saga that skillfully weaves several storylines into an exciting adventure with a human touch.  Don't let "Made for TV" scare you from this one.  It may be a bit unfair to compare a miniseries with shorter feature films in this genre, but I'd rank this among the greatest westerns ever made.
2982483
These are some of the best westerns Audie Murphy been in and TCM and Universal did an excellent job of finally releasing these on DVD all on one package. There are four movies with their own respectful disc. The audio and video transfer are just perfect without any flaws I noticed. Each movie has their own features on the disc which would be; movie posters of that movie, scene stills, publicity stills, behind-the-scenes stills, british front-of-house stills and all movies have an intro of Bed Mankiewicz (so it's just like watching them on TCM and seeing the intro, but you can also play the movie without seeing the intro).

All movies are in Color and run for about 1hr and 20mins each. Only "Sierra" and "Ride Clear of Diablo" are Full frame and "Drums Across the River" and "Ride A Crooked Trail" are in Anamorphic Widescreen. By the way I don't know if these have any subtitles.

Here is the list of some stars in each movie and all movie of course star Audie Murphy:
-"Sierra" stars: Wanda Hendrix, Burl Ives, Dean Jagger, Richard Rober, Roy Roberts, John Doucette, Tony Curtis, plus others and is Directed by, Alfred E. Green
-"Ride Clear of Diablo" stars: Susan Cabot, Dan Duryea, Abbe Lane, Russell Johnson, Paul Birch, Denver Pyle, Jack Elam, plus others and is Directed by, Jesse Hibbs
-"Drums Across the River" stars: Walter Brennan, Lyle Bettger, Lisa Gaye, Hugh O'Brian, Regis Toomey, Bob Steele, plus others and is Directed by, Nathan Juran
-"Ride A Crooked Trail" stars: Gia Scala, Walter Matthau, Henry Silva, Joanna Moore, Mary Field, Eddie Little, plus others and is Directed by, Jesse Hibbs

Overall this is an excellent collection of western movies and I would recommend this.
1832029
Great to have the whole collection so I can watch them in order.  The quality on screen does not seem as good as on live TV.  I find this strange but it's not really a detraction.  The extras are decent and really shoes the actors in a different light.  I would have liked more bloopers given it is a comedy show, but maybe they were just that good at their craft.

If you find yourself watching the syndicated episodes frequently, you might as well buy this and watch them in order.  Not only that, you have them around forever in case you get the knack to watch them again later.
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I am a very enthusiastic Bob Hope fan, and ordered this set to see what movies were included in the set.  Let me help you out. This set has 5 very good movies:  1)Road to Rio 2)The Great Lover 3)Son of Paleface 4)Paris Holiday 5)The Private Navy of Sgt. O'Farrell.  All of these movies are good, my favorite being Road to Rio, one of the great early Bing Crosby & Bob Hope road films.  The set contains movies that are, I think, available elsewhere, however.  Still, if you are a collector of Hope's wonderfully funny films, check this set out.  Check the Internet Movie Database for movie reviews of these 5 films.
1590966
This made for TV movie is so good.  It was very thought provoking when I first saw it as a teenager, and it still is.