Customer Reviews
Great Westerns 
2008-06-09
At first, I wasn't sure how I felt after watching "Garden of Evil." At first, it didn't do much for me, but by the next day, I started to think about it and realized what a terrific film it is. It's character driven and everyone is first rate. The scenery is a significant factor in the film's enjoyment. Even Susan Hayward, whom I always thought was a poor actress, rises to the occassion. "Garden of Evil" is slow going in some areas but, when the drama kicks in, it is compelling. "Gunfighter" and "Rawhide" are very apparent when addressing their stature as classics. I highly recommend this collectoin of 20th Century Fox western classics.
TRIPLE FEATURE......... 2008-06-07
Triple feature of 3 enjoyable movies from the long ago days when Hollywood knew how to make a decent western, which today is pretty much a lost art.
Got my copy on order, having seen these 3 down through the years on either AMC or ENCORE westerns. Not a bad movie in the bunch, however, I believe my favorite is RAWHIDE. And it has been a movie very difficult to find.
Won't waste many more words: I watch westerns and read western books, so if you have any interest in the fictional west, do not, I stress, DO NOT pass up these 3 movies at this bargain price.
Best in watching, pards.
Semper Fi.
All are good but none are great 
2008-06-05
I pick this up at the same time as The Westerner and that single movie has more talent than all three of these combined. The Garden of Evil has some beautiful cinematography but its fault is a plot that is awkwardly cobbled together from various sources.
Susan Hayward steals the whole show! 
2008-06-04
3 good westerns in one package...and yet after having watched the 3 movies, it's the performances of the great late Susan Hayward that mesmorizes me the most...
In "Rawhide"(1951) as much as in "Garden of Evil" (1954) she is fascinating in her timing,agressivity yet always extremely feminine and sexy...
What a star she was...Studios (especially 20 century fox) should threat her superb legacy much better by releasing one or two Susan Hayward DVD boxsets featuring the big hits she was in from the second half of the fourties up to the late sixties....She remained a front rank super star for 20 years..not a small feat for a female star of her generation!
In "Garden of evil" she is spectacular in technicolor! Watch her...
a top rate collection presented with top rate features etc... 2008-05-27
These are three terrific 50's Westerns starring and directed by some of the greats of all time! The restorations are fabulous and the bonus featurettes are also absolutely tasty and informative...this is a ridiculous bargain at this price...for any ONE of the movies much less all three. If you are a fan of westerns or these actors..buy with confidence the prints are stunning and as I said...these are good movies to boot!
Fox Western Classics 2008-07-24
All three movies are good with some of the best actors of this period. I have enjoyed Westerns for some time. Growing up in the 50's and 60s it was a Smorgasbord at the movies and on TV. Now Westerns are few and far between and even on cable TV there are only a couple of networks that televise them. Any fan of this genre should definitely add this three movie set to their Western collection. This set can't be found just anywhere, and not even Netflix rents these movies. I highly recommend this set at Amazon for the amazing low price of $10.99, and you won't find it cheaper if you can even find it. If you have Prime Shipping you get them in a couple days and you're in for some great entertainment. Great quaility DVDS with good replayability. If you enjoyed these catch "Stalking Moon" and "Cimarron". - C. Luster
"Fox Western Classics" delivers a real bargain 2008-06-28
Fox Western Classics offer three major, but rarely televised, westerns from the early 1950s. A real treat, and the best of the three in my opinion, is the "Garden of Evil". This is a really fun adventure/western that has Gary Cooper offering lines like "let's ride!" and this retort to Susan Hayward's comment about Richard Widmark staying behind to take on the Indians alone; "Somebody always stays and get's it done." I am not a Cooper fan but after seeing him in this film, I better understand his appeal. The source material for the disc is excellent and the widescreen color presentation of some very exotic Mexican locales is worth the price of the dvd. This film also has a musical score by Bernard Herrmann.
"Rawhide", directed by Henry Hathaway (as was Garden of Evil)features Tyrone Power and, again, Susan Hayward in a black and white western that is also quite well done. The dvd presentation is excellent.
Gregory Peck "stretches" as an actor by playing a semi-bad guy (complete with a villian's mustache) in "The Gunfighter". Another good western character study and another excellent dvd presentation.
All three films are major "A" budget projects from the 50s that are not often seen anywhere, not at revivals, not on television, and, not to my recollection on VHS tape.
A real bargain for anyone looking for a quality western dvd package.
Classic West 2008-06-28
Three great westerns in one pack. For $14.99 this is a great deal. Each DVD has its own slim keep case, rather then a clumsy 'cardboard custom case', which actually is a great relief.
All three movies are digitally remastered, the picture and sound are good. 'Garden of Evil' comes in widescreen and color. The rest are B&W and presented in full screen. All three movies are equally entertaining with great acting. The Special Features included along with each movie is great. Another neat stuff from 20th Century Fox.
If you are a classic western fan, then go grab this one right away.
Great classic westerns 2008-06-21
Often when you purchase a set of DVD s you get one good movie. Here in this three box set you get three great classics. If you like old westerns you will love this set. Plus, I have been looking for Garden of Evil for years but could never find it. Enjoy|
Garden Of Evil is in 4 channel sound!! 2008-06-13
Garden Of Evil a nice surprise if you have a Dolby Digital surround sound system in your home theater. 3 channels across the front with one surround channel in back. That mixed with the widescrren picture in Technicolor makes for an excellent presentation. The other 2 movies are only in mono in their original full screen format. Still they are prestine transfers.
I'll be playing all 3 of these from the DVD's in the next couple of days. So how did I know that Garden of Ecil was in 4 channel stereo? Simple, I played the beginning of the movie after the trailer....
