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Straight Shooting & Hell Bent: Two Films by John Ford (Masters of Cinema #245-246) Blu-Ray

Straight Shooting & Hell Bent: Two Films by John Ford (Masters of Cinema #245-246) Blu-Ray

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This special edition release features a slip cover and a collector’s booklet featuring writing by Richard Combs, Phil Hoad, and Tag Gallagher.

The Masters of Cinema Series is proud to present two early features from John Ford (credited on both films as Jack Ford) in their UK debuts on home video, fully restored in 4K.

Straight Shooting is landmark in the history of the Western. The first feature directed by Ford, it revived the career of Harry Carey who gives a rough and tumble performance here as a hired gun who turns on his employers to defend an innocent farmer and his family.

In Hell Bent, ‘Cheyenne Harry’ (Harry Carey playing the same character from Straight Shooting) flees the law after a poker game shootout, and arrives in the town of Rawhide, where he becomes friendly with local cowboy Cimarron Bill (Duke Lee) and dance hall girl Bess Thurston (Neva Gerber). When gang leader Beau Ross (Jospeh Harris) kidnaps Bess, Harry goes to desperate lengths travelling across the deadly desert in order to free Bess from the hard-bitten Ross.

SKU: 5060000704198

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Actors: Harry Carey, Duke R. Lee, George Berrell, Neva Gerber

Director: John Ford

Special Features: Straight Shooting – Score by Michael Gatt, Hell Bent – Score by Zachary Marsh, Straight Shooting – Audio commentary by film historian Joseph McBride - author of Searching for John Ford: A Life, Hell Bent – Audio commentary by film historian Joseph McBride, Brand new interview with film critic and author Kim Newman, Bull Scores a Touchdown – Video essay by Tag Gallagher, A Horse or a Mary? – Video essay by Tag Gallagher, Archival audio interview from 1970 with John Ford by Joseph McBride, A short fragment of the lost film Hitchin’ Posts (dir. John Ford/1920) preserved by the Library of Congress

Release Year: 1917

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More Information

Format: Blu-Ray

Label: Eureka Video

Region Coding: Region B

Language: Silent

Subtitles: Silent

Case Type: Blu-Ray Case with Slipcase

Genre:

  • Drama
  • Western

Technical Details

Run Time: 115 mins

Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1 original aspect ratio

Video Format: PAL

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