The movies I received three of them had scratches and they skipped scenes of the movies. Not too satisfied with this product. Try to do better with your products.
Great movie happy with purchase glad to do business with you
A finely produced DVD and of course a very exciting story!
This went fine. There had been mix-up. I had received a third DVD of the movie and hadn't paid for it. David said to just pay again as if ordering, and he would know not to send yet a fourth one.
Like many on this site, a long standing favourite of mine. I opted for the download link option, and I was impressed how quickly I received it. Unlike the post, no long delay and no increased expensive postal charges. Perfect quality every time, and I've bought several. Also excellent communication with the site owner/s. A brilliant site indeed.
Prompt dispatch and great DVD
great classic, enjoyed very much
A bad ripoff of The Thing.Peter Weller is undoubtably one of the worst actors of all time.(The only good thing he's ever done was Robocop where playing a robotic human really suited his style.)The special effects were very average,the characters mostly unlikable and the dialogue and direction was terrible.It really plunged itself into the pits in the final scene when Weller punched a woman in the face.
I never received the dvd and when sent a message to the company about it. Never heard back from them.
I remember seeing this movie when I was young...its a great movie... dennehy is scarey good in this.
DVD failed to play smoothly and started "hanging" in the first chapter and subsequent chapters when I tried to skip ahead. This happened on all of my 4 DVD players, rendering the DVD, (PT109), totally useless and 'unwatchable'. Whilst I emailed the supplier advising of my problem, I have to date not yet received a reply.
Great movie. Great price. Great dite
A fantastic, clean family classic. They just don’t make them like this anymore
Movie arrived in great condition, within the time period stated
Just what my husband wanted!!!!
Thank you
Been looking for this dvd for years and years
Absolutely love it!!
Love thismovie and it was so sad 😞 😔 😟
Quality of the dvd wasn't the best, it was grainy., like it had been recorded from a vhs tape. I couldn't see some of the scenes because they were to dark, especially any thing that was at night.
Dvd hasnt arrived yet.
To start with Im a total junkie for this series..One of a kind...This last series was probably a bit lesser in quality than the earlier ones and it was filmed in the UK instead of US BUT having said that its still great popcorn stuff...Watch out for the 'monkeys paw' episode
Easy purchase, good quality product.
After a brief prologue made up of film clips of Wayne in his career prime, we meet his cinematic alter ego, John Bernard Books, an aging gunfighter who rides into Carson City, Nevada in the early 1900’s looking for Doc Hostetler (James Stewart), the old sawbones who once saved his life and apparently the only man he trusts. It seems the old guy has prostate cancer and only a few weeks to live, and as Hostetler tells him, it will not be a pleasant death. Books, with no where else to go, checks into Bond Rogers’ (Lauren Bacall) boarding house to live out his final days in peace under the alias “William Hickok.” When Bond’s delinquent son Gillom (Ron Howard, in a nice change-of-pace performance and his last major film appearance before becoming a director) informs her of his true identity, she tries to throw him out but relents when she finds out his condition and agrees to help him die in peace.
Unfortunately, things don’t go as planned as everyone from the town mortician (John Carradine) to an old girlfriend (Sheree North) to a newspaper editor (Richard Lenz) try to take advantage of his situation and turn a fast buck. And then there are several lowlifes (Richard Boone, Hugh O’Brien, Bill McKinney, etc.) who want to seal their reputations by taking him out. Since it’s obvious that no one will leave him alone in his final days, and since he grows fond (to put it mildly) of both Bond and Gillom and wishes them no harm, Books decides to go out in style and on his own terms, and to take a few scumbags along with him.
“The Shootist” is one of those rare films that seems to have gotten better with age. It wasn’t particularly successful with critics or audiences at the time, as they were apparently put off by its leisurely pace and relative lack of action. Typical of the reaction was a TV guide critic (who shall remain nameless), who once derided it and its stars as coming across as “relics of the old West.” (Wasn’t that the point?) However, it is now pretty much considered a classic, and rightfully so, especially when viewed next to some of the lesser films of Wayne’s 1970’s period (“Cahill,” “Rooster Cogburn,” “The Cowboys”). In fact, it is now hard to believe that Wayne was not nominated for an Oscar here, as Books is clearly one of the best performances of his career and definitely eclipses his extravagantly praised, Oscar-winning mugging in “True Grit.” Indeed, “The Shootist” deserves to stand alongside Clint Eastwood’s “The Outlaw Josey Wales” and Oscar-winning “Unforgiven” as the last three great Westerns in cinema history. Everything about it is immaculate–the sets, the costumes, the supporting cast (including Harry Morgan in a terrific cameo as an unsympathetic sheriff who tells Books, “What I put on your grave won’t pass for roses.”), the script, and the chemistry between Wayne and Bacall, teaming up for the first time since “Blood Alley.” And everything is held together by old pro director Donald Siegel who, aside from the late Hal Ashby, may very well be the most underappreciated director in cinema history.
But “The Shootist” is John Wayne’s film all the way. He is simply sensational, and BRAVE, since he apparently knew at the time his cancer was back and that this would probably be his last film. It’s not every film legend who gets to end his/her career on a high note, but Wayne did just that. I just hope he knew it before his death barely three years later.