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James Stewart - The Signature Collection (The Cheyenne Social Club / Firecreek / The FBI Story / The Naked Spur / The Spirit of St. Louis / The Stratton Story)
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: WARNER HOME VIDEO
Fabric Type: 0012569816183
Gem Type: In his early years, Jimmy Stewart came to personify the Everyman. "Hollywood dishes out too much praise for small things,'' Jimmy once said. "I won't let it get me, but too much praise can turn a fellow's head if he doesn't watch his step.'' - Through a Hollywood career spanning 50 years James Stewart has thrilled, touched and delighted audiences with over 80 films. Six of those films are now avai
Graphics Memory Size: Black & White, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC
Manufacturer Labor Warranty Description: 110
Maximum Color Depth: Warner Home Video
Maximum Focal Length: EnglishOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 1.0FrenchOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 1.0EnglishSubtitledSpanishSubtitledFrenchSubtitled
Metal Type: Warner Home Video
Pearl Type: 81618
Publisher: 5
Total Firewire Ports: Warner Home Video
Total Metal Weight: 1
Total Parallel Ports: August 15, 2006
Total S Video Out Ports: 683 minutes
Warner Home Video
April 20, 1957
Features:- In his early years, Jimmy Stewart came to personify the Everyman. "Hollywood dishes out too much praise for small things,'' Jimmy once said. "I won't let it get me, but too much praise can turn a fellow's head if he doesn't watch his step.'' - Through a Hollywood career spanning 50 years James Stewart has thrilled, touched and delighted audiences with over 80 films. Six of those films are now avai
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The Spirit of St. Louis: America gets its wings! Stewart is aviator Charles Lindbergh, and Billy Wilder directs this soaring tale of the first trans-Atlantic flight. (Widescreen) The FBI Story: A decades-spanning story of an FBI lawman. Hightlights include intriguing inside looks at the bureau's crimefighting and training techniques. (Widescreen) The Naked Spur: A landmark of the Western genre and of Stewart's postwar career/ The lanky star portrays a bounty hunter caught in a battle of wills with outlaw Robert Ryan. (Full Screen) The Stratton Story: Academy Award (1949): Best Motion Picture Story. Baseball pitcher Monty Stratton suffers the loss of a limb but does not lose his will to compete in this inspiring true-life story. Co starring June Allyson. (Widescreen) The Cheyenne Social Club/Firecreek (Double Feature): Ridin' twogether: longtime pals Stewart and Henry Fonda. First, they play saddlebums who inherit a bawdy house. Then, they square off as lawman and outlaw in Firecreek. (Full Screen)
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Few Hollywood stars have the reservoir of goodwill that James Stewart enjoys; even in his so-so vehicles he's delightfully worth watching. That premise is tested by James Stewart: The Signature Collection which, with one exception, contains none of Stewart's really important pictures. The box does present a collection of movies mostly new to DVD, which gives the set whatever urgency it has from an otherwise mixed bag.
The one important Stewart title is The Naked Spur, arguably the best of the superb series of Westerns the actor made in collaboration with director Anthony Mann in the 1950s (which also include Winchester 73 and The Man from Laramie). The nervous, hard character who emerged in those films is perfected in Stewart's amazingly raw performance in The Naked Spur. He plays an embittered bounty hunter attempting to bring captured outlaw Robert Ryan to the authorities while also dealing with Ryan's companion (Janet Leigh) and two associates who want in on the reward (Ralph Meeker and Millard Mitchell). Mann's command of locations that reflect the emotional lives of the characters is unerring, and Stewart goes all the way with a performance that suggests he is as unbalanced as his villainous quarry.
Two other Westerns are included, both teaming Stewart with Henry Fonda: Firecreek, a grim 1968 High Noon imitator with Jimmy as a small-town farmer defending the place from Hank's band of desperadoes; and The Cheyenne Social Club, a comedy that has Stewart inheriting a bordello, as saddle pal Fonda tags along for the laughs. If director Gene Kelly's approach weren't so crass, the movie might be a lot funnier than it is.
The Stratton Story, a big hit from 1949, casts Stewart in the true tale of pitcher Monty Stratton, who enjoyed some big-league success before a hunting accident cost him his leg. The cornball script is rife with baseball nostalgia, and audiences loved the gee-whiz chemistry of lanky Stewart and tiny, indomitably perky June Allyson. Equally square is The FBI Story, an account of the Bureau's growth from the 1920s onward, with especially lavish reverence for J. Edgar Hoover (who appears in a cameo). Stewart is the agent through whose eyes we see the decades roll by.
The Spirit of St. Louis is one of the most atypical titles in Billy Wilder's career, standing as a straightforward account of Charles Lindbergh's legendary solo flight from the U.S. to Europe. Stewart may have been apt casting for the Lone Eagle in some ways, but he looked far too old to play the young aviator in this 1957 picture. The film has some nagging storytelling problems, but the aviation footage--especially Lindbergh's thrilling liftoff for his record flight--is beautifully shot. Taken together, this set does provide different angles on James Stewart's American Hero (a more complex personality than he's usually given credit for). But it's not his top-drawer work. --Robert Horton
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This six movie collection by James Stewart is great! I had seen these movies in my younger years, when they would be new in the theatre. I wanted them to add to my movie collection. I love watching good movies over and over. James Stewart is worth seeing over and over. "The Spirit Of St. Louis" really gets to the insight of early aviation.
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some of these movies (the naked spur and spirit of st louis) are a complete waste of time. The FBI Story is enjoyable but full of fbi propoganda and not centered toward what actually happened.
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This was a awesome buy me & my husband loved every movie and it was delivered the very next day....we are so happy with this purchase.
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James Stewart has always been recognized as one of the great American actors. His depth is explored in this set--from the likeable Lindberg of 'Spirit of St. Louis' to the accident-prone schlub in 'The Stratton Story', Stewart displays his ability to connect with the audience.
The one film where he tries to play against type--'The Naked Spur' finally ends with Stewart's character being likeable--even after spending the entire film as an embittered man.
Anyway, a nice group of films ... Read More
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Jimmy Stewart ... one of the greatest actors, AND Americans ever !!
This is a very nice collection of six of his movies, with The Stratton Story and The Spirit of St. Louis being two of his best. Of course, you will need to also purchase "Harvey", and "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence", in order to view his two VERY bests.
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