Outstanding Triple Feature!
This DVD features three Monogram B-Westerns, Yukon Manhunt, Northwest Territory, and Yukon Gold. Each movie is about an hour long. I played it in my DVD player and the picture quality is outstanding, although I did have to turn the sound way up to be able to hear the dialogue.
These are typical Kirby Grant/Chinook B-westerns, and the movies are all quite good. My favorite is Yukon Gold, because it features a young, short-haired brunette Martha Hyer as the leading lady.
Chinook is real star of these movies. This magnificent, white German Shephard, really stands out as he repeatedly rescues Kirby Grant from the bad guys. Chinook could out-think and out-fight any baddie ever to appear in a B-Western. What really impresses me about Chinook is that he appears to be interacting with the humans in all his scenes. I could not find a single instance where he appeared to look to an off-camera trainer for a signal as to what to do. Chinook is the most natural animal...
Superior Monogram B Westerns
I add my complete agreement to Mr. Williams' September 7, 2012, review of these Monogram "Kirby Grant and Chinook" Westerns from 1951 and 1952. Kirby Grant is usually known today by his starring role in the TV series, "Sky King," yet before that popular television series, Grant made a number of first class B Westerns, including several during the mid-1940s for Universal. He went to work for Monogram Studios in 1948/1949, and between 1949 and 1954, starred in a series of well-made oaters set in the Canadian northwest, in the Yukon. As Mountie Rod Webb, with his faithful and very talented white German Shepherd, Chinook, Grant's film outings are always entertaining and superior in the genre. Production values for this series are consistently high; plots are well-handled--indeed, it is usually only at the last moment that one discovers the real villain or mastermind behind the crime being investigated. Visually, the camera work is striking. Although these films were most likely filmed at...
Three family adventures on one DVD!
This three feature DVD is family oriented and each film runs a little over an hour! Monogram Pictures created this series of Kirby Grant and his faithful dog Chinook in the early 1950s. This heroic twosome battle bad guys and always win by the final reel of each film! Nothing earth shaking, just good entertainment by the Monogram Studio!
Click to Editorial Reviews
No comments:
Post a Comment