The Sundowners / Vengence Valley

Rating:
Summary: OK Movies- poor presentation
Review: They say that you get what you pay for and in this bargain price DVD you get two pretty good public domain westerns from the early 1950s, a couple of cartoons and several vintage TV commerials, mostly for children's toys. In all a pretty entertaining package, but greatly marred by a general lack of care in presentation. The print of The Sundowners is especially poor, with washed out color, deep emulsion scratches and missing frames- too bad, it's a pretty good movie with a great performance by Robert Preston as the villian/antihero. The source print for Vengence Valley, a glossy M-G-M release starring Burt Lancaster, is much better, but the presentation is marred by poor mastering which causes the picture to appear fuzzy throughout.