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The Big Stampede / Ride Him Cowboy / Haunted Gold
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0012569678385
Format: Black & White, NTSC
Label: Warner Home Video
Languages: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 1.0
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
MPN: 67838
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: November 07, 2006
Running Time: 163 minutes
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: August 23, 1932
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Editorial Review:
John Wayne's road to stardom needed some giddyup in the early 1930s; after a leading-man turn in The Big Trail, he quickly fell into B-movie obscurity. While waiting to vault to first-tier status in 1939's Stagecoach, he honed his talent with a set of six B-Westerns at Warner Brothers, shot in 1932-33. The series allowed Warners to recycle footage (and plots) from a string of silent Westerns made with Ken Maynard, with the young Mr. Wayne stepping into Maynard's saddle. These snappy little films (under an hour each) are contained on two Warners DVDs; this one has the first three pictures in the series. Ride Him, Cowboy is the best of the batch, a very entertaining number in which Wayne is introduced to a feisty horse named, of all things, Duke. Duke would feature in the later films, as would Wayne's harmonica playing. The movie has some wild stunt riding and some very amusing dialogue (someone urges a pokey storyteller, "Skip that part and get down to bedrock"). And for a cheap B-movie, there's some exceptionally inventive camerawork by Ted McCord, who would go on to shoot The Treasure of the Sierra Madre and East of Eden.
McCord also shot The Big Stampede, which doesn't have much drama but lives up to its title with a cattle-frenzy finale. Noah Beery Sr., plays the baddie, and Wayne's future Stagecoach co-star Berton Churchill plays Lew Wallace (the governor of New Mexico and the man who wrote Ben-Hur). Haunted Gold adds a dose of haunted-house shenanigans to an awkward tale about a hidden cache of gold. The comic relief comes from character actor Blue Washington, who unfortunately has the kind of wide-eyed, scaredy-cat role that too many black actors of the era got stuck with.
Wayne, 25 years old, plays the same naively heroic hero in each. He's lean and handsome and not yet grown into his talent. But you can see how much the camera likes him--as his future director Howard Hawks might have put it--and how much that famous stride is already coming into step. --Robert Horton
Twenty-five-year-old John Wayne saddles up in three of six early 1930s shoot-'em-ups made for Warner Bros. and previously filmed with silent-screen cowboy Ken Maynard. The Big Stampede pits Wayne against a cattle baron (Noah Beery) heaping a load of misery on new ranchers. Haunted Gold unravels the mystery of an abandoned gold mine lying beneath a ghost town. Ride Him, Cowboy finds drifter Wayne rescuing a spirited horse, tracking a notorious killer called The Hawk...and falling under suspicion of being the infamous outlaw. Billed with Wayne in each of the three films is the white stallion Duke (chosen to match Maynard's horse in intercut footage from the earlier films). Ride him, John!
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Duke Wayne's Early Warner Brothers Westerns
The video quality of this DVD was much better than I expected. It helps strengthen the point I made in a recent review I gave for "Hurricane Express" that it behooves the distributors of these old films to do a better job in restoring the picture and sound. In the case of this DVD a favorable effort was achieved.
I certainly would not rank any of these three films among John Wayne's top twenty, or even top fifty films. They are competently made "oat burners," in the style of a Hopalong ... Read More
Rating:  - EXCELLENT JOHN WAYNE TRIPLE FEATURE!!!
The previously available DVDs of early John Wayne westerns out of the public domain are a strain to watch. Most come from deteriorated copies where picture detail and clarity and sound quality are bad at their best.
I bought this expecting the same. But to my surpise, this release by a major studio like Warner blows all the other early to mid 30's John Wayne westerns to bits.
The picture quality is superb. Clarity of detail is exceptional. Warner Bros should be commended for ... Read More
Rating: - the big stampede / ride him cowboy / haunted Gold
ce sont des vieux films mais c'est john wayne et c'est super de les avoir gravé sur un dvd . Avis aux collectionneur Super !!
Rating: - historically significant.....and FUN!
People bash the 50-60 minute "oaters" of the 30's...and now that I've watched these three and the three on the other Wayne set that just came out..i say forget them! These are fun movies, kind of like longer westerns with the boring stuff cut out! The critics say these were all filmed in just a day or two...well the stories usually are about a day or two....and there is great riding, shooting, action and backstabbing in these action packed hours...and JOHN WAYNE and...the DUKE! That's right...his ... Read More
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