Chisum [Commemorative Packaging]

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

Overview

This classic western features (John Wayne) as John Chisum, the tough cattle baron who defends his Lincoln Country ranch from the gang of Lawrence Murphy (Forrest Tucker). When Murphy goes on a land-grabbing rampage, Chisum valiantly defends his territory. A bloody battle for land ensues and Chisum recruits ranch foreman James Pepper (Ben Johnson) to fend off the evil land baron. When Murphy's men kill a trusted friend, Billy The Kid (Geoffrey Duel) and friends go on a shooting spree and kill Murphy's friend, the local sheriff. Soon Pat Garrett (Glenn Corbett) is after the Kid, and Lincoln County is inundated by hails of hot lead. Wayne gives his typical performance as a rugged gunman forced to retaliate when his individual freedom and livelihood are threatened.

Product Details

Release Date:	05/22/2007
UPC:	0085391158592
Original Release:	1970
Rating:	G
Source:	STUDIO DISTRIBUTION SERVS LLC
Region Code:	1
Presentation:	[Wide Screen]
Sound:	[Dolby Digital Mono]
Language:	English
Time:	1:51:00
Sales rank:	1,914

Special Features

Commentary by director Andrew V. McLaglen; Vintage featurette John Wayne and Chisum; Theatrical trailer; Languages: English & Français; Subtitles: English, Français, Español & Japanese (feature film only)

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.