Big Jake
(DVD) 

DVD releases of the 1971 and 1953 motion pictures.

Hondo based on the novel "The gift of Cochise," by Louis L'Amour.

Hondo special features: special introduction by Leonard Maltin; featurettes; commentaries.

Big Jake : producer, Michael Wayne; writers, Harry Julian Fink and R.M. Fink ; director, George Sherman ; cinematography, William H. Clothier ; editor, Harry W. Gerstad ; music, Elmer Bernstein. Hondo: producer, Robert Fellows, Wayne Fellows ; screenplay, James Edward Grant ; director, John Farrow ; directors of photography, Robert Burks, Archie Stout ; art director, Alfred Ybarra ; editor, Ralph Dawson ; music, Hugo Friedhofer ; wardrobe, Carl Walker.

Big Jake : John Wayne, Richard Boone, Patrick Wayne, Christopher Mitchum, Maureen O'Hara. Hondo: John Wayne, Geraldine Page, Ward Bond, Michael Pate, James Arness.

Big Jake McCandles, is a husband who hasn't seen his wife in over 18 years. But he returns home after his grandson is kidnapped by a vicious outlaw gang. While the law gives chase in rickety automobiles, Jake saddles up with an Indian scout and a box of money-- even though paying a ransom isn't how Jake plans to exact good old frontier justice. in "Hondo," Hondo Lane, a dispatch rider for the cavalry, encounters Angie Lowe, a woman living alone with her young son in the midst of hostile Apache territory. She presumes she is safe because the Apaches under their chief Vittorio, have always left them alone. Later Hondo has a run-in with Angie's good-for-nothing husband and is forced to kill him. When Vittorio captures Hondo to save his life, Angie teels the Apache chief that he is her husband. In order to protect her from forced marriage with one of the Apaches, Hondo reluctanly goes along with the lie.

DVD; Dolby Digital 5.1or 2.0 surround (English), mono. (French).

Closed-captioned.

Sound tracks in English and French; optional subtitles in English.

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