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List Price: $12.98 | | Label: Warner Home Video
Salesrank: 31998
Released: August 26, 2008 |
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MPAA Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
SADDLE THE WIND (DVD MOVIE)
Description of Saddle the Wind:
The credits of Saddle the Wind feature two unlikely names to be connected with a Western: the script is by Rod Serling (pre-Twilight Zone), and the wind in need of saddling is personified by John Cassavetes, doing an 1860s variation on a 1950s juvenile delinquent. He's kid brother to Robert Taylor, an ex-gunfighter who's turned rancher with the blessing of range baron Donald Crisp. The peace of their CinemaScope-pretty valley is variously threatened by gunman Charles McGraw, an extended family of squatters (headed by Royal Dano in anguished righteousness mode), and most of all the volatile, gun-happy Cassavetes. Saddle the Wind turns out to be something of a discovery, thanks to Serling's metaphor-rich dialogue and intriguingly oblique direction by Robert Parrish. There's some facile '50s-TV psychologizing, but mood trumps plot, and the inevitable showdown takes a surprising turn. Plus it never hurts to have Julie London around to gaze soulfully and sing the title song. --Richard T. Jameson
Saddle the Wind Reviews:
Modestly effective, humorless Western drama... 
2009-02-11 - "Saddle the Wind" is the first of two 1958 Westerns in which Taylor plays a reformed outlaw... He is cast opposite a promising newcomer John Cassavetes... The sexy and flamboyant Julie London provides the love interest but her role is poorly defined and almost working from outside the plot...
Robert Taylor is a personality on screen rather than an actor... He plays here an ex-gunfighter who has reformed and is living and working on his ranch peacefully... But fate will not allow him to retire... Cassavetes, his wild young unstable brother shows up carrying a six-gun, and with a sexy dance-hall singer London...
Cassavetes' intensity did add excitement to the show... He shoots down a tough character and with his killer instinct now waked up, he attacks a group of homesteaders led by Royal Dano and sets fire to their belongings... This battle has much more cinematic electricity than the final confrontation between the two brothers...
Strong landowner (Donald Crisp) imposes himself at this point, and asks the two brothers, now troublemakers, to leave the country...
Shortly after that time, Cassavetes gets into a wild and confused struggle with Crisp's men and is wounded, but manages to escape... Taylor goes out to get him...
With some magnificent Colorado Rockies scenery caught effectively by George Folsey's CinemaScope and Technicolor photography, "Saddle the Wind" is modestly effective, humorless Western drama...
a classic 
2009-01-26 - this is a very good well paced western.
good actors and good understanding of the characters.
Saddle the Wind 
2008-09-30 - Excellent DVD !!!! Sous-titres en français, comme promis !!!! Je suis enchantée de mon achat!!!! MERCI à l'excellent vendeur dont l'envoi fut rapide!!!
Christiane
"Robert Taylor Series ... Saddle the Wind (1958) ... MGM (2008)"
2008-08-28 - MGM presents "SADDLE THE WIND" (20 March 1958) (84 mins/Color) (Dolby digitally remastered) -- Our story line and plot, Steve Sinclair (Robert Taylor) is a former world-weary former gunslinger, now living as a peaceful rancher --- Things go wrong when his wild younger brother Tony (John Cassavetes) arrives on the scene with his new bride Joan Blake (Julie London) --- when Cassavetes gets a gun for the first time he winds up killing a gunfighter Larry Venables (Charles McGraw) who was looking to kill Taylor --- Cassavetes thinks he is top man around the ranch now and has an itchy trigger finger --- Things get really bad when Clay Ellison, Owner of Strip (Royal Dano) and his family move onto the land and want to put up a fence and things turn violent --- Elmer Bernsteins haunting and driving score fits this oater like a fine glove --- Taylor in one of his best performances gives this film the depth our story deserves.
Under the production staff of:
Robert Parrish - Director
Armand Deutsch - Producer
Rod Serling - Screenwriter
Thomas Thompson - Screen Story
George Folsey - Cinematographer
Jeff Alexander - Composer (Music Score)
Elmer Bernstein - Composer (Music Score)
Ray Evans - Songwriter
Jay Livingston - Songwriter
John McSweeney, Jr. - Editor
Malcolm Brown - Art Director
William Horning - Art Director
Henry W. Grace - Set Designer
Otto Siegel - Set Designer
Helen Rose - Costume Designer
the cast includes:
Robert Taylor ... Steve Sinclair Double S Owner
Julie London ... Joan Blake, Tony's fiancee
John Cassavetes ... Tony Sinclair
Donald Crisp ... Dennis Deneen
Charles McGraw ... Larry Venables, Gunfighter
Royal Dano ... Clay Ellison, Owner of Strip
Richard Erdman ... Dallas Hanson, Saddle Tramp
Douglas Spencer ... Hemp Scribner - Double S Foreman
Ray Teal ... Brick Larson - Deneen's Foreman
Stanley Adams ... Joe, the Bartender
Jay Adler ... Hank, Saloon cleanup man
Wes Fuller ... Cowboy
Nacho Galindo ... Manuelo, Double S Cook
Kelo Henderson ... Cowboy
Lars Henderson ... Jamie
Irene Tedrow ... Mrs. Mary Ellison
Henry Wills ... Cowboy
SPECIAL FEATURES:
BIOS:
1. Robert Taylor
Date of Birth: 5 August 1911 - Filley, Nebraska,
Date of Death: 8 June 1969 - Santa Monica, California
2. Julie London
Date of Birth: 26 September 1926 - Santa Rosa, California
Date of Death: 18 October 2000 - Encino, California
3. John Cassavetes
Date of Birth: 9 December 1929 - New York, New York
Date of Death: 3 February 1989 - Los Angeles, California
Hats off and thanks to Les Adams (collector/guideslines for character identification), Chuck Anderson (Webmaster: The Old Corral/B-Westerns.Com), Boyd Magers (Western Clippings), Bobby J. Copeland (author of "Trail Talk"), Rhonda Lemons (Empire Publishing Inc) and Bob Nareau (author of "The Real Bob Steele") as they have rekindled my interest once again for B-Westerns and Serials --- If you're into the memories of B-Westerns with high drama, this is the one you've been anxiously waiting for --- please stand up and take a bow Western Classics --- all my heroes have been cowboys!
Total Time: 84 mins on DVD ~ Warner Home Video ~ (8/26/2008)
