Thanks for the links.
The price is good for a change, but I hesitate over the PAL speed-up, and I hate having to buy these box-sets a second time.
I like the A&E sets, they play at the right speed, but they omit the supplements.
I really want the supplements.
Why couldn't A&E include the supplements in the NTSC editions?

Also, a very fine researcher wrote a book on both programs, and a copy was included in a Special Edition of the respective box-sets.
I might be tempted to buy those because of the books and the supplements.
I don't know, I'll think about it.

Again thanks for the links.

By the way I enjoyed reading the reviews on your website, especially your review of Buchanan Rides Alone. The location you mention is my old stomping ground of Old Tucson Studio. Other films shot there around the same time and on DVD now include Broken Arrow and Winchester '73 (both 1950), Ten Wanted Men (1955) with Randolph Scott, John Sturges' Backlash (1956), Delmer Daves' The Badlanders (1958), Howard Hawks' Rio Bravo (1959), and Peckinpah's The Deadly Companions (1961). It had three different streets, each with a slightly different look, plus a Mexican plaza with a Spanish Mission, and some outlying ranch buildings. Very versatile set. Columbia paid Navajo Indians to build the adobe town in a National Park of sajuaro cactus in 1940. Later it added two soundstages. It had a weathered and well-used authenticity no other western town set could match until it burned down in 1995. Film making has never been the same in Tucson since, with most companies opting to shoot in Canada or New Mexico instead now, that the best facility is gone and replaced by a really dumb theme park.

Richard

"... little by little the look of the country
changes because of the people we admire."
dialog in HUD (1963)

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