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The Big Stampede
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 0012569798540
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, DVD-Video, NTSC
Item Dimensions: 20
Label: Warner Home Video
Languages: English (Original Language),
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
MPN: 79854
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: May 22, 2007
Running Time: 54 minutes
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: October 08, 1932
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Editorial Review:
John Steele is sent into New Mexico Territory to stop cattle rustlers and colonize the new land.Runtime: 54 minsFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: WESTERN/MISC. Rating: NR UPC: 012569798540 Manufacturer No: 79854
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 of snappy little films (under an hour each) 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. The Big Stampede 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). It was shot by Ted McCord, who would go on to shoot The Treasure of the Sierra Madre and East of Eden. Wayne, 25 years old, plays the same naively heroic hero in each of the six films. 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
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating: - ANOTHER EARLY STARRING ROLE FOR WAYNE
I've always considered it very strange why Wayne's westerns of the 1930's are not given the same sort of revered status that other western stars like Hopalong Cassidy and Roy Rogers received. Sure they're B movies but so were the films by Cassidy and Rogers. They might not have been as good from a pure technical standpoint, but they weren't awful either.
Wayne plays deputy Sheriff John Steele as he goes undercover as a drifter in New Mexico to find out who is behind the cattle rustling. ... Read More
Rating: - It was a great movie.
Can't believe how young John Wayne was in this film. His horse had the name "Duke". I thought that Mae Madison who played Ginger was very good. The stunts in the film were good too.
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