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Summary: Worth every penny!!
Review: Both boxed sets will keep you entertained for years. My 4 year old son loves it.
Rating:
Summary: Worth every penny!!
Review: Both boxed sets will keep you entertained for years. My 4 year old son loves it.
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Summary: The Rifleman is all man!
Review: Chuck Connors, Johnny Crawford and the Chuck's rapid-fire long gun are the featured performers of these episodes. I watched this show five days a week when I was a grade-schooler and I'm delighted to find it holds up pretty well. Naturally some episodes are more worthwhile than others (in those days they knocked out thirty episodes or more per year), but overall quality is high for half-hour weekly fare. It's family entertainment that won't bore the not-so-young'uns.Sam Peckinpah created this before moving on to feature films, and he utilized his youth on a California ranch to add realism to the show's atmosphere. Recommended viewing, especially the first couple seasons.
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Summary: Family fare with a bang
Review: Chuck Connors, Johnny Crawford and the Chuck's rapid-fire long gun are the featured performers of these episodes. I watched this show five days a week when I was a grade-schooler and I'm delighted to find it holds up pretty well. Naturally some episodes are more worthwhile than others (in those days they knocked out thirty episodes or more per year), but overall quality is high for half-hour weekly fare. It's family entertainment that won't bore the not-so-young'uns. Sam Peckinpah created this before moving on to feature films, and he utilized his youth on a California ranch to add realism to the show's atmosphere. Recommended viewing, especially the first couple seasons.
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Summary: Rifleman, Boxed Set 1
Review: DVD's are defective. Can only view the first 2 episodes before it restarts back to the 1st show. The 2 episodes my wife saw she liked, but would like to see the remaining episodes. These dvd'd were a Christmas present and since she didn't get a chance to view them within 30 days of receipt, we're now stuck with a defective product.
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Summary: Rifleman, Boxed Set 1
Review: DVD's are defective. Can only view the first 2 episodes before it restarts back to the 1st show. The 2 episodes my wife saw she liked, but would like to see the remaining episodes. These dvd'd were a Christmas present and since she didn't get a chance to view them within 30 days of receipt, we're now stuck with a defective product.
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Summary: An old fashioned sense of morality, courage, and justice
Review: The Rifleman was the popular television western series starring Chuck Connors as Lucas McCain, a widower who raised his son (Johnny Crawford) on a ranch in New Mexico in the late 1880s. Every episode portrayed an old fashioned sense of morality, courage, and justice as Lucas McCain was called upon to defend the local town, his ranch, his son, and a number of ordinary men and women who were threatened by the villains and outlaws of the Old West. Lucas signature weapon was a specially modified rifle that could should bullets faster, with more accuracy and at a greater distance than any of the bad guys. Now in a four-volume boxed set containing more than nine hours of these memorable black & white western adventure series from television's early days, The Rifleman Box Set #1 is an enthusiastically recommended addition to community library Video and DVD collections, as well as a popular choice for nostalgia buffs with found memories for one of the more wholesome and "family values" oriented shows of television's "Golden Age".
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Summary: The Rifleman is all man!
Review: there are some good episodes and some slow ones in here.
'Waste I and II' from disk 4 are excellent. Did you see the beautiful girlfriend that Mexican dude had!
Also good is 'deadly image' and 'the Vaqueros' is an absolute classis desert revenge story. The encounters with the Mexican bandits are usually good. Rifleman is good, but sometimes I wonder if he had to wear jeans that tight! (just look at the picture on the cover)! but that's ok. Lucas is all man is this show. some of the most masculine honorable series made were made back in the 1950s! They could have improved the show with less of that cranky old sherrif dude. The interactions with the boy are nice and classic.
to go through most of the disks
disk1
'sharpshooter' a little slow
'home ranch' ok. some good bonding with the boy. ' I'm staying on my ranch!'
'young gun' good. classic story.
'marshal' bad. I think the series would have been better with a different sherrif. that old sherrif dude kind of bugs me. 'duel of honor' bad. disk2
angry gun' good. tracking story.
sheridan' bad
money gun' bad
mindreader' ok
bloodlines' good story. disk3
hunter' good story! old timer who has been out in the hills too long messes with the rifleman! Big mistake, old timer!
vaqueros' a favorite!
knight errant' bad bad bad. exactly how are they picking some of these episodes?
Rating:
Summary: I love the Rifleman!
Review: There's something very zen-like about this show. I've loved it since I was a kid. The dialogue is brilliant in its simplicity at times. Very aware people were writing this, I think. Directors include Sam Peckinpaw, other luminaries. The extent of the affection tough Lucas shows Mark is quite incredible for the 50's. This is like no other 1950's show, that's for sure. Chuck Connors managed to perfectly balance drama with a tongue-in-cheek sensibility. Some episodes are light, others most profound. Lucas McCain is the toughest hombre ever, and yet he is as wise as a sage and plants marigolds all around the ranch-house and actually holds and kisses his son (remember Jim Anderson? I loved Father Knows Best too but Jim reserved his hugs and kisses for Princess and Kitten, poor Bud had to be content with shaking hands). At other times Lucas is funny and mischievous- Chuck Connors did a really fantastic job of making this guy seem staightforward and yet complex. But best of all are the outtakes with the cast cussing, playing practical jokes, etc. I love this set and intend to get more volumes as they come out.
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Summary: I love the Rifleman!
Review: There's something very zen-like about this show. I've loved it since I was a kid. The dialogue is brilliant in its simplicity at times. Very aware people were writing this, I think. Directors include Sam Peckinpaw, other luminaries. The extent of the affection tough Lucas shows Mark is quite incredible for the 50's. This is like no other 1950's show, that's for sure. Chuck Connors managed to perfectly balance drama with a tongue-in-cheek sensibility. Some episodes are light, others most profound. Lucas McCain is the toughest hombre ever, and yet he is as wise as a sage and plants marigolds all around the ranch-house and actually holds and kisses his son (remember Jim Anderson? I loved Father Knows Best too but Jim reserved his hugs and kisses for Princess and Kitten, poor Bud had to be content with shaking hands). At other times Lucas is funny and mischievous- Chuck Connors did a really fantastic job of making this guy seem staightforward and yet complex. But best of all are the outtakes with the cast cussing, playing practical jokes, etc. I love this set and intend to get more volumes as they come out.
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