Blu-ray Release: Hour of the Gun

By
Laurence
– September 21, 2017Find Others: Blu-ray, Movie, New Release, NewsGet More: , ,

Blu-ray Release Date: Sept. 19, 2017
Price: Blu-ray $29.95
Studio: Twilight Time

Director John Sturges (The Great Escape) and screenwriter Edward Anhalt (Becket) bring us a reworking of the Wyatt Earp/Doc Holliday legend in Hour of the Gun (1967), a sort of sequel to Sturges’ earlier Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957).

Here, the director looks at the post-Gunfight struggle for political control of Tombstone, with a marvelous trio of antagonists: James Garner (Grand Prix) as Earp, Jason Robards (Long Day’s Journey into Night) as Holliday, and the sublime Robert Ryan (Caught) as Ike Clanton. This Western is shot by Lucien Ballard (just a couple of years from The Wild Bunch), and highlighted by a superb score from the inimitable Jerry Goldsmith.

Bonus features on the Blu-ray disc include an isolated music and effects track and an original theatrical trailer.

As supplier Twilight Time prints up only 3,000 copies of each title, be sure to head over to the Twilight Time site or that of distributor Screen Archives NOW so you can put in your order!

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About Laurence

Founder and editor Laurence Lerman saw Alfred Hitchcock’s North by Northwest when he was 13 years old and that’s all it took. He has been writing about film and video for more than a quarter of a century for magazines, anthologies, websites and most recently, Video Business magazine, where he served as the Reviews Editor for 15 years.