BAD DEAL!!!
Love Roy & Dale and all their films, but I just can't stand it when my favorite cowboy films get all butchered up!... For some reason the song SUSANNA PASS went buzzing through my head the other day so I reached for this newly bought set to enjoy the movie. Now, the dvd states the running time as 67 minutes which is the correct running time for this movie. However, during the first 10 minutes I noticed that things just didn't seem quite right. Too many quick splice/cuts. And then when Roy arrives at the jailhouse early on after chasing an escaped convict I remembered that a song seemed to be missing. So when I pulled out my old REPUBLIC PICTURES vhs double bill of this film along with SONS OF THE PIONEERS I not only noticed that the video tape print was clearer with better color contrast, but also that there were no early splice cuts, snipping a couple seconds here and there. And best of all, as Roy arrives at the jailhouse, Estrelita Rodriguez is singing the song TWO GUN RITA which...
Disappointment
To say I was disappointed by this box set would be an understatement. With the exception of the Happy Trails Theatre wraparounds, the movies themselves are a disgrace. By viewing the films contained in this set, fans of Roy Rogers might be forgiven for ever believing that he was once a singing cowboy, since 95% of the original songs have been edited out. Pre 1949 titles were edited down by Republic Studios to 54 mins so that that along with commercial breaks they would fit into a one hour television time slot. Many of the titles contained here are post 49 titles, and in consequence were never edited to begin with. Therefore the obvious question to ask is why don't we have the full running times for THOSE titles at the very least. Let me tell the prospective buyer that not only do we not get the full running times for the later titles, but we don't even get the 54 min cutdown versions for the earlier ones!! What we get instead are running times of approximately 47 mins for all the...
Roy deserves better prints
You can't beat these Roy Rogers classics-'Sheriff Of Tombstone' is one of the best westerns ever- and the tin is excellent but the prints of these movies are dreadful-they have been hacked off at the top probably to fit the TV screenings in the 50s-those guys who did that should have been shot by Roy- I would gladly have paid $50 plus for good prints of these movies. Guess I'll have to wait until better prints come along and stuff them in the tin!
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