Chisum [Blu-ray]

Director: Andrew V. McLaglen, Andrew V McLaglen Andrew V. McLaglen

Overview

John Wayne toplines this biography of the cattle owner John Simpson Chisum, a controversial figure who was the most powerful man in New Mexico during the Wild West era. A founder and prominent citizen in the town of Lincoln, Chisum is slow to act when ruthless land baron Lawrence Murphy (Forrest Tucker) moves in on several local businesses and takes them over. By the time Chisum and his ally, fellow rancher Henry Tunstall (Patrick Knowles), decide to go to the law, Murphy's already bought and paid for influence there, as well. The only recourse left to the cattlemen is to take Murphy on in all-out range war that embroils everyone in the county, including Tunstall's hand Billy the Kid Bonney (Geoffrey Deuel) and his comrade Pat Garrett (Glenn Corbett). Screenwriter and producer Andrew J. Fenady based the script for Chisum (1970) on his own short story, a very loosely fact-based account of Chisum, Billy the Kid and their involvement in the Lincoln County wars.

Product Details

Release Date:	06/07/2016
UPC:	0883929527519
Original Release:	1970
Rating:	G
Source:	Warner Home Video
Presentation:	[Wide Screen]
Language:	English
Time:	1:51:00
Sales rank:	16,749

Special Features

Commentary by director Andrew V. McLaglen; Vintage featurette John Wayne and Chisum; Theatrical trailer

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

John Wayne	Actor
Forrest Tucker	Actor
Christopher George	Actor
Ben Johnson	Actor
Glenn Corbett	Pat Garrett
Bruce Cabot	Sheriff Brady
Andrew Prine	Alex McSween
Patric Knowles	Tunstall
Richard Jaeckel	Evans
Lynda Day George	Sue McSween
John Agar	Patton
Lloyd Battista	Neemo
Robert Donner	Morton
Ray Teal	Justice Wilson
Edward Faulkner	Dolan
Linda Day	Actor
Ron Soble	Bowdre
John Mitchum	Baker,O'Folliard
Glenn Langan	Dudley
Alan Baxter	Gov. Axtell
Alberto Morin	Delgado
William Bryant	Jeff
Abraham Sofaer	White Buffalo
Pedro Armendariz, Jr.	Ben
Gregg Palmer	Riker
Geoffrey Deuel	Billy the Kid
Pamela McMyler	Sally Chisum
Chuck Roberson	A Trail Herder
Hank Worden	Stage Depot Clerk
John Pickard	Aggressive sergeant,Aggressive Sergeant
Ralph Volkie	Blacksmith
Pedro Gonzalez-Gonzalez	Mexican Rancher
Jim Burk	Actor
Pedro Armendáriz Jr.	Ben
Eddy Donno	Actor
Dominic Frontiere	Composer
William Conrad	Actor

Technical Credits

Andrew J. Fenady

Andrew V. McLaglen	Director,Director
Andrew J. Fenady	Screenwriter,Producer
Michael Wayne	Executive Producer,Producer
Howard Jensen	Special Effects
Dick Bullock	Stunts
John Ferguson	Sound Effects

Editorial Reviews

John Wayne was one of the few personalities who could carry a movie almost entirely on his personality, and Chisum is one of those movies. It came out in 1970, a year after Wayne won an Oscar for his self-referential role in True Grit and Sam Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch revolutionized the screen Western. Hollywood studios (behind the times as usual) continued to make the genre the old fashioned way for a few more years. Chisum follows all the traditional formulas, but, thanks to a solid performance by Wayne and some high-energy action sequences, it manages to be good entertainment. Ben Johnson is pretty standard as the comic sidekick; remarkably, this was the film before his Oscar-winning performance in The Last Picture Show. The director, Andrew McLaglen, went on to direct a number of lamentable -- though quite funny -- sequels to movies that he had nothing to do with originally, including Return From the River Kwai, Sergeant Steiner, and The Dirty Dozen: The Next Mission.

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