Vengeance Valley
by Richard Thorpe
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Actor: Burt Lancaster, Joanne Dru, John Ireland, Robert WalkerDirector: Richard Thorpe
Brand: WESTLAKE ENTERTAINMENT INC
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Color, DTS Surround Sound, DVD, NTSC, Original recording remastered
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 88 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-01-01
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: WESTLAKE ENT. GROUP
Movie Reviews of Vengeance Valley
Movie Review: Owen Daybright Saves The Day
Summary: 4 Stars
Western lovers..kick off your boots and set a spell..here's one from the 50's that should satisfy your hankerin for some good ole fashion western adventure.
"Vengeance Valley" from 1951, stars Burt Lancaster as Owen Daybright, the "good brother"(how could you not be good with a name like that?), and Robert Walker as Lee Strobel his evil brother. Owen has spent his life covering up for Lee's mistakes. When Lee gets one of the local girls "in trouble",Lee puts the blame on Owen, and her brothers come after him with a vengeance. He has to fight them off and take care of their vast cattle empire all in 83 minutes! Who else but Burt Lancaster can handle all this? The film was directed by Richard Thorpe(Jailhouse Rock) and also look for such notables as John Ireland, Hugh O'Brien, Joanne Dru and Sally Forrest .
I think this particular DVD(westlake Entertainment) is a little overpriced for this oldie, but you can find several other editions out that are more reasonable, including 2 packs. Vengeance Valley/Rage at Dawnis a nice little deal for oater lovers. Check also the "other versions' on detail page, or just search Vengeance Valley for more options. I also saw it available on used VHS.
Saddle up and Happy trails western lovers....Laurie
Summary of Vengeance Valley
VENGEANCE VALLEY (DVD MOVIE)The charms of DVD sometimes passeth understanding. Vengeance Valley is an 83-minute B Western directed (barely) by the dullest of MGM hacks, Richard Thorpe, and based on one of the genre's hoariest formulas--the bad natural son (Robert Walker), the good foster son (Burt Lancaster), and the range empire they respectively imperil and rescue. Everyone on board was marking time: Walker, who otherwise spent 1951 playing Bruno Anthony in Hitchcock's Strangers on a Train, and who would be dead within the year; Lancaster, whose glum performance hints at neither the gusto of his early-'50s swashbucklers nor the fact that he would soon be collecting Oscar nominations; Joanne Dru (playing Walker's recent bride), who only a year earlier was working for John Ford; and screenwriter Irving Ravetch, who would draw a much more auspicious ranch-land assignment a decade later with Hud (1963). No, we can't make exalted claims for Vengeance Valley--but that's just the point: this is an absolutely typical slice of moviegoing life in 1951, and watching this DVD is as uncanny as a trip in a time machine. The aura is perfected by the true three-strip Technicolor print, not a latterday Eastmancolor approximation of the real thing. Throw in a supporting cast of such sagebrush perennials as John Ireland, Will Wright, Glenn Strange, Jim Hayward, and TV's Wyatt Earp-to-be, Hugh O'Brian, and you've got a quintessential Saturday at the Bijou. Now if only the great color films of the period could all look this good.... -- Richard T. Jameson
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