I enjoy this dated, somewhat red neck version of the conquering of the American West. I saw it in Cinerama when it was first released. How differently people received the movie in those days! MGM has been releasing many wide screen classics on DVD from the sixties. Unfortunately they are not formatting these letterbox releases for 16x9 TVs. I believe it was especially egregious that this old Cinerama release wasn't given better treatment. No 16x9 format, No 5.1 sound. After the conclusion of the overture, in comes blasting the Ted Turner intro instead of the beginning of the titles. C'mon doesn't anyone at MGM have some musical taste? I appreciate that MGM is releasing these older classics, but do they need to cut corners?
Things have changed since I wrote the above: Warners finally got it right with the newer DVD and Blu-ray releases.
Things have changed since I wrote the above: Warners finally got it right with the newer DVD and Blu-ray releases.