The Tall Men (1955) - Clark Gable, Robert Ryan - 8/20/19

[oildude]

As first announced by the Home Theater Forum, Raoul Walsh's The Tall Men (1955) is coming to Blu-ray from Twilight Time on August 20, 2019. This will be a limited edition of 3000 copies.

From IMDb...Two brothers discharged from the Confederate Army join a businessman for a cattle drive from Texas to Montana where they run into raiding Jayhawkers, angry Sioux, rough terrain and bad weather.

Directed by Raoul Walsh (The Thief of Bagdad, The Roaring Twenties, High Sierra, White Heat, Gun Fury, They Died with Their Boots On, The Naked and the Dead, and many more)

Starring:

Clark Gable (Gone with the Wind, It Happened One Night, The Misfits, Run Silent Run Deep, Call of the Wild, Mutiny on the Bounty (1935), Band of Angels)

Robert Ryan (The Wild Bunch, Inferno, On Dangerous Ground, Crossfire, The Iceman Cometh, House of Bamboo, The Naked Spur, Bad Day at Black Rock, Lawman, Hour of the Gun, The Dirty Dozen)

Jane Russell (The Outlaw, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, The Road to Bali, The Revolt of Mamie Stover, His Kind of Woman)

Cameron Mitchell (Garden of Evil, Hell and High Water, Blood and Black Lace, Ride in the Whirlwind)


Music by Victor Young, who scored over 200 films including Shane, The Quiet Man, Johnny Guitar, Make Way for Tomorrow, Gun Crazy, Sands of Iwo Jima, Samson and Delilah, The Glass Key, Ministry of Fear, and The Big Clock.

Cinematography by Leo Tover, whose filmography includes The Day the Earth Stood Still, Journey to the Center of the Earth, Untamed, The Heiress, Hold Back the Dawn, I Walk Alone, Blue Denim, and From the Terrace.





Trailer

The Tall Men 1955 Trailer - YouTube

[McCrutchy]

It's funny, because just last night, I learned that this film apparently has a brief and very long shot of Jane Russell's breasts. Little did I know that at the same time, Twilight Time were announcing it for Blu-ray.

Apparently, the German disc is quite good, so I might get this one.

[brainofj72]

This movie has some of the most beautiful imagery I’ve ever seen. Hopefully the transfer does it justice.

[Fred Sliman]

Always a good day to wake up to another Robert Ryan upgrade announced.

[BamaDullard]

Screencaps look really good! It doesn't seem to have that aggressive blue push like a lot of other Fox scans.

http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film7/blu-r...en_blu-ray.htm

[Aclea]

The Tall Men is a good looking disc despite being taken from an older master - which also means that there's no obvious revisionism with the vivid color scheme but there is the odd case of the CinemaScope mumps. The default soundtrack is the 5.1 track but I preferred the 4.0, which has that old fifties four track stereo expansiveness.

Love the ending where Robert Ryan gets to deliver the definitive description of his co-star Clark Gable - "There goes the only man I ever respected. He's what every boy thinks he's going to be when he grows up and wishes he had been when he's an old man."

[cinerama]

In the first two screencaps, I'm seeing more detail and brighter image on the top one - DVD. Maybe they should be reversed?