Blue Desert

Starring:D.B. Sweeney, Courteney Cox, Craig Sheffer, Philip Baker Hall, Sandy Ward, Peter Schrum, Anne Bellamy, Chris Latta, Robert Miano, Tom Finnegan, Connie Sawyer, Anita Keith, Ray Lykins, Diane Adair, David Ursin, Vali Ashton, Joe Lerer, Gary Ballard, Tommy Lamey
Director: Bradley Battersby
Studio: Platinum Disc
Product Type: DVD

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Blue Planet (IMAX) [Blu-ray]
Director: Ben Burtt
Manufacturer: Warner Brothers
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ASIN: B000Q6GX1S
Release Date: 2007-07-31

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From the unique vantage point of 200 miles above Earth's surface, we see how natural forces - volcanoes, earthquakes and hurricanes - affect our world, and how a powerful new force - humankind - has begun to alter the face of the planet. From Amazon rain forests to Serengeti grasslands, Blue Planet inspires a new appreciation of life on Earth, our only home.

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blue planet on imax

Blue Planet (IMAX) [HD DVD]
Starring: Toni Myers
Director: Ben Burtt
Manufacturer: Warner Brothers
ProductGroup: DVD
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ASIN: B000Q6GX22
Release Date: 2007-07-31

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blue planet on imax.......2007-05-28

saw this on imax in ft. worth many years ago. if it is 1/3 as good on this dvd as it was in imax, it will be awesome. the imax version i saw in an imax theatre brought tears to my eyes.....it is very near a religious experience. no foolin!!

terry in tulsa
go sooners......

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Great Earth Science Summary!
Dreary, boring, and too correctly spoken
Good Job production team
A natural alternative to Lunesta
My Blue Planet Review

Blue Planet (IMAX)
Starring: James Buchli , and Toni Myers
Director: Ben Burtt
Manufacturer: Imax
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ASIN: B00005BCKI
Release Date: 2001-06-12

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The IMAX film Blue Planet offers an eloquent reminder--and a cautionary warning--that the planet Earth is a delicate living organism, constantly reshaped and rejuvenated by the awesome forces of nature. The film targets a grade-school audience but will prove informative to anyone fascinated by our home planet's evolution. Hurricanes, glaciers, volcanoes, thunderstorms, asteroid impacts, undersea furnace vents, and earthquakes are all explored as a system of interconnected forces that ensure the planet's survival. The difference between this and other nature films is that the Earth's delicacy is emphasized by stunning views from space, filmed in the IMAX format by NASA astronauts in orbit 200 miles above the Earth's surface. With astonishing clarity, this orbital perspective supports the film's ultimate purpose: to reveal the awesome beauty of the Earth, and to emphasize that we, the custodians of this miraculous gift, are also the greatest threat to the planet's delicate health. Proof of man's destructive influence offers a sobering reminder that our responsibility toward nature is perpetual, essential, and routinely abused.

Blue Planet combines state-of-the-art sound and image, principally directed by Ben Burtt, the Oscar-winning sound designer whose credits include the original Star Wars trilogy. No home-theater system could do full justice to the film's technical achievement, but the sights and sounds of Blue Planet are awesome nonetheless, and it's impossible to overstate the importance of the film's message and its hopeful emphasis on the potentially wondrous future of our one and only home. --Jeff Shannon

Description

DVD Features:
Interactive Menus
Other:Soundtrack remastered in Dolby Digital 5.1

Customer Reviews:

Great Earth Science Summary!.......2007-01-09

This film not only has amazing filming and captures the beauty of our planet, but is also a wonderful Earth Science class summary.

Dreary, boring, and too correctly spoken.......2006-07-13

This is a disappointingly boring and formulaic show. Basically we get hit over the head with how miserable we are making the earth. All right, already. Tell me thirty six more times.

Whenever I hear the word "evolved" in a show about life on earth it annoys me. It is the new religion, the new dogma. It is just as dogmatic as its religious competition preaching Jehovah or Allah or some other fictional character. Why can't the evolution people just realize that someone very brilliant designed the tiger and the peach, and stop pretending that they just grew out of the soil, like a can of tomato sauce growing out of the dusty rocks on the moon.

The announcer is annoying as hell. She pronounces every word perfectly and bloodlessly. She speaks acceptably and "beautifully", so beautifully that it is ugly. Her speech is acceptable, yours is not. It's a bunch of bull. I took speech classes too, and I had the sense to ignore them. They get in the way of honest communication.

The environmentalists feel that they need to bang us over the head every chance they get, telling us how humanity is ruining the planet, and you can sympathize because our government doesn't give a damn about pollution, and in fact revels in it, since it means that their rich campaign contributors will save money by not having to clean up after themselves, making the campaign contributions excellent investments, paying huge profits. It does pay to own the U.S. government, so they let you do whatever you want. One hand washes the other.

Sometimes they showed us images of green or blue or white swirls, and they told us it was the Himalayas or Sri Lanka or something, and they really needed to use arrows to show us what they were referring to. All I saw was a bunch of colored swirls. Why couldn't they just use an arrow to point out where to look?

Imax should have thrown propriety and predictability and preachiness away and given us an interesting show. But they weren't creative enough to do that. So they gave us the same old stuff, preaching the same old new religion, and spoken the way they were taught to speak, artificially.

Good Job production team.......2005-10-27

It a very beautiful movie, giving us a perspective of how wonderful Mother Earth is!
Photography and narration is great. The team has done a great job, relating the analogy of an Astronaut to a space shuttle as Man to earth.
It opens up ones mind to the wonders of Gods creation and Mans destruction by depleting natural resources. A movie well made and drives home a point well worth it!

A natural alternative to Lunesta.......2005-10-13

OK...to start off with the positive, this DVD does have great sound and crisp, vibrant video footage. Also within the 40 minutes of this DVD, you will come away with a good understanding of the big picture of our planet and how our planet's atmosphere, oceans, land, life and and pollution are all interrelated. It is also explained in a way that makes it easy to understand. If you are an adult with with a true interest in Earth science then you can add a star or two to my rating.

I do not recommend this DVD for children. It will be a real sleeper for them! The very calming voice of the narrator and fairy tale type of music in the background will put almost any adolescent to sleep. I say this because I am a high school science teacher and have shown this to my students. While doing so I have had to nudge my students or get their attention to stay awake. Those that were awake had that glazed over look in their eyes. There are better videos out there for students that are more exciting and just as informative.

My Blue Planet Review.......2005-10-11

This movie was not very interesting. I'm shocked at how amazingly BORING this movie was compared to most IMAX films. I watched it as a classroom film. I watched two students fall asleep. One child left the room to go to the bathroom, and didn't come back for 10 minutes! I appreciate what these people were trying to teach us but it would have been nice if they had made it interesting.

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Great extras, mediocre film
Large mediocre with cheese
Alright movie
Great old-school adventure film!
An action movie...demonstrates teamwork & ingenuity among diverse characters under extremely hostile conditions!

Flight of the Phoenix [Blu-ray]
Starring: Dennis Quaid
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
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ASIN: B000JSI7AS
Release Date: 2006-12-05

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As superfluous remakes go, Flight of the Phoenix could've been better, and could've been worse. It's a passable popcorn adventure, especially for those unfamiliar with the 1965 original, which starred James Stewart, made headlines for the crash-landing death of stunt-pilot Paul Mantz, and now stands as a minor classic of its era. This flashy remake stars Dennis Quaid in Stewart's role, adds a woman to the list of plane-crash survivors, and showcases Giovanni Ribisi, who gives a cleverly eccentric performance as the model-airplane designer who proposes to rebuild a crashed cargo plane into a single-engine escape from certain death in the remote Gobi desert. Both films are essentially identical, but this remake is somehow less believable (due to shortcuts in a haphazardly written screenplay) and much more spectacular, owing to the advantage of impressive special effects. Otherwise it's a routine dose of survivalist entertainment from the director of Behind Enemy Lines, never convincing enough to be genuinely compelling, but certainly never boring. --Jeff Shannon

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An action-adventure in which a group of air crash survivors - cast-offs from society who will never be missed - are stranded in the Mongolian desert with no hope of rescue. As they attempt to build a new plane from the wreckage of the old one, in hopes of flying back to civilization, they experience a rebirth of their own.

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Great extras, mediocre film.......2007-06-17

Sadly, Flight of the Phoenix is just another duff remake. Despite massive advances in special effects and a moderately exciting last two minutes, this feels even longer than Robert Aldrich's much longer original, and the reason is pretty elementary: lack of characterisation and drama. Where Aldrich typically set his flawed protagonists at each others throats in a hostile environment that was driving them mad and dealt with the way the pilot who crashes off-course in the desert turns his guilt into anger at his passengers, this is mostly feel-good stuff, full of life lessons, spiritual slogans and far too much high fiving for any self respecting survival drama - at one point they even get down and boogie. A modicum of drama is thrown in at the last minute in the wake of the key revelation about the new plane's designer, but it's so little and so late that it totters on the edge of laughable. As a result, some good actors and Giovanni Ribisi (horribly overacting the old Hardy Kruger part minus the Nazi undertones) are stranded by committee filmmaking rather than the elements and poor piloting.

Strangely, for such a bland film, the making of documentary is surprisingly gloves off, showing director John Moore in full effing and blinding mode as he throws several fits (and he's not the only one). At least one of the extended scenes (involving a biplane) was good enough to be in the feature, and the commentary throws up the odd interesting fact amid the mutual back slapping. The result is a modest extras package that easily outshines the film.

Large mediocre with cheese.......2007-04-01

Usually, movies with actors as good as those in Flight of the Phoenix guarantee that the movie will be good. Not so here. The movie is basically sound but it fails to provide real suspense. F-bombs and s-words are dropped like loose change, and there is slight innuendo. The ONLY bright spot is the acting, which cannot be faulted.

Alright movie.......2007-01-03

I got it cause it had Hugh Laurie in it.. watched it like 2 x's and then sold it on Ebay...

Great old-school adventure film!.......2006-12-19

This remake of "Flight of the Phoenix" is a load of fun. If you've never seen the original, then it holds up as a solid adventure flick in the old-fashioned tradition (which is always a good thing). If you have seen the original, then this new version still has it's own merits, and approaches the story just differently enough to allow it to stand on its own legs. This Dennis Quaid version doesn't try to equal the gut-wrenching, male-bonding acting of the original, dirty, gritty original. There are no more Jimmy Stewarts out there anymore, after all. Instead, it goes for a somewhat cleaner, more dynamic aesthetic. As a work of art, that may make this inferior to the earlier classic, but at least it isn't just a by-the-book remake. What would be the point in that, after all? As a longtime fan of the original, I found myself readily able to enjoy this new version. Both are worth seeing. Don't get me wrong. If you are only going to see one version, go with the classic version. But if you're willing to see both, I recommend doing so!

An action movie...demonstrates teamwork & ingenuity among diverse characters under extremely hostile conditions!.......2006-07-30

I understand this movie is actually a remake of an earlier movie starring James Stewart in the sixties. I did not watch the earlier movie, even though James Stewart was a favourite actor of mine, but I certainly enjoy watching this one.

The storyline is very simple: A ragtag bunch of characters on a cargo plane crash-landed somewhere in the Gobi Desert. They worked together, led (or misled?) by an eccentric character, Elliot (played menacingly by Giovanni Ribisi), who had only some experience with model air plane design, to rebuild the plane from the wreckage & then to fly back to civilisation.

In a nut shell, it is essentially a movie about the triumph of the indomitable human spirit. What I like about this movie is watching the ragtag bunch of diverse characters eventually working together & using their sheer ingenuity & imagination to rebuild the plane, in spite of extremely hostile conditions - no contact with the outside world, brutal environment (scorching sun & scathing sandstorms), dwindling resources & attack by desert marauders. The dialogue is very witty...sometimes funny...coupled by a spectacular crash sequence, which has been seemingly extended for viewers' enjoyment.

This movie also brought back some sweet memories of my trip across the southern end of the Gobi Desert about a decade ago. At that time, I was trying to retrace the journey of Marco Polo along the Silk Road. I rode on a camel as well as on four-wheels across some short stretches. The view of the sand dunes was magnificent & enchanting, but I could sense the harsh reality of the environment. [This movie was actually filmed on location in Namibia, Africa.]

Only one aspect of the movie really puzzles me. As a Chinese, I noted that the desert marauders apparently spoke Cantonese. The crash scene happened in the Mongolian part of the Gobi Desert - people there don't speak Cantonese.

Lastly but not the least, I have also enjoyed watching Dennis Quaid, one of my favourite actors, playing the lead role of Frank Towns, the crack pilot.

Overall, the movie has been great to watch.

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Typical Indie Film with Great Kate Hudson & Christina Ricci
A Dialogue Movie
Great Independent Film
fasinating and enjoying
Deserted with a bunch of teens and a star!

Desert Blue
Starring: Casey Affleck , Brendan Sexton III , Kate Hudson , Christina Ricci , and John Heard
Director: Morgan J. Freeman
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ASIN: B000022TSK
Release Date: 1999-12-28

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Baxter, California, is the fictional home of the world's largest ice cream cone; that's where cable TV starlet Skye (Kate Hudson) gets stuck with her father (John Heard), a professor studying roadside attractions, when a truck carrying the secret ingredient of a new cola overturns and is suspected of being environmentally hazardous. Desert Blue's wisp of a plot centers around this possible toxic spill and a suspicious motel fire, but the heart of the movie lies in the aimless but cheerful activities of the town's teens, played by Brendan Sexton III (Welcome to the Dollhouse), Sara Gilbert (from TV's Roseanne), and Christina Ricci (The Opposite of Sex). After the EPA quarantines the town, Skye finds herself making friends with the local kids. These kids may be eccentrics--Ricci's character builds bombs and her boyfriend (Casey Affleck) is obsessed with racing all-terrain vehicles--but their quirks spring from the boredom that afflicts all isolated small towns; they just refuse to succumb. The movie's second greatest strength arises from the landscape. The movie doesn't make the desert majestic, as a John Ford Western might. Instead, the scrubby underbrush and blowing sand seem almost intimate; even if you've never lived in the Southwest, Desert Blue makes the countryside seem like home. It's a modest movie, but it makes modesty a virtue. --Bret Fetzer

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Typical Indie Film with Great Kate Hudson & Christina Ricci .......2004-07-31

'Desert Blue' is an indie movie, and like many indie movies it features many quirky characters played by good actors whose names should be more famous than now. This is also the debut for Kate Hudson, whose acting is the strongest here, proving that she was on the way to a bigger thing.

Kate Husdon is Skye, TV starlet and daughter of the professor John Heard, who studies the roadside attractions in America. Now they are going to watch 'the biggest ice cream corn' in the small, very small town of Baxter, Calfronia, with the population less than 100.

In this Nowhereavill, you see some young kids spending ainless time -- still they don't look so unhappy as you think. Among them you see Casey Affleck, Brendan Sexton, and Christina Ricci, the last one's hobby being blowing up the things with her hand-made explosion device.

Because of the situation you don't have to take seriously, the father/daughter are trapped in this town, which is a familiar device to make them meet the local kids. Skye gradually comes to like them, especialy one of them, but at the same time she has to go back to the city, where she could possibly get a bigger role in the film (unexpected co-incidence that reflects the future career of Kate Hudson herself).

The film is not as unique as it thinks it is, but very cozy to see at the same time, especially when you see the realistic locations and the two ladies -- Hudson and Ricci, both of whom manage to impress us in a quite different way. Hudson (or Skye if you like) cannot hide her amiable nature even if she initially hates to be detained in this 'desert' while Ricci, as usual, steals the scenes with her trademark 'WHO CARES?' attitudes, which conceals her tender side deep inside. Fans of the stars should watch this.

You may not remember the film very long, which itself is not remarkable as it should be. In fact, after the film is over, not many are memorable, perhaps because the film is too good-natured, or weak some might say, to impress us. Still, it's a good thing to see the earlier work of Kate Hudson, who is, as the name of Skye suggests, about to reach the stardom.

A Dialogue Movie.......2004-05-27

Someone created jobs, putting a lot of actors and studio people to work, and also endorsed (perhaps indirectly) some pretty good products. Other than that, there's really not much to say about this movie. While it does have its moments, it's not one I'd knock down the doors of the video outlet to get to. In fact, this is one of those movies you'd watch when you've already viewed everything else in the store.
It's the story about people who live in the small town of Baxter, California (population 87). A truck has overturned spilling a mysterious chemical, and the driver of the truck dies. Investigators believe he died from whatever the chemical is. Soon the FBI arrive and quarantine the entire town, leaving everyone wondering whether or not they are going to live or die a horrible death. A man and his daughter who came to sort of sight see while on their way to an audition, end up along with the townspeople, unable to travel further since the FBI have set up road blocks around the area. What will happen to these people? You'll need to get the movie and find out.
The film does have an array of interesting characters. One of them, a deputy who wants to be a sheriff in another town tends to make mountains out of mole hills. It's ironic in that I actually know policemen and women who are just like his character.
If you're a Christina Ricci fan, you're sure to love this movie in that she is peppered throughout it. Roles are played well, and hers is the most unigue of the bunch. She's definitely a girl you would not want to make mad, and when you see the movie you'll understand why. In a way, the movie has two plots. One of course is the story of what's going to happen to the quarantined people, the other is finding out the facts concerning a mysterious fire at a motel. I did like the dialogue in that it was at times thought provoking. As the people tried to go about their daily activities as normally possible, they brought up interesting outlooks on life, and on what could be their last days alive.
There is a minimum amount of action in this film. It is a movie for people who enjoy dialogue. There is no nudity, no overt sexual situations, but it does have strong language. There is romance, but not to the point to where you would want to cover the eyes of your kids. One of the "highlights" of the film is where the teens of the town get into an orange war, then one part where someone gets shot trying to leave town. I own the movie, and I've watched it once, and perhaps I will again, still, this is not a grand epic action packed film.

Great Independent Film.......2004-05-02

I saw this film recently with about thirty other people. Everyone loved it. Lots of actors and actresses that are famous now can be seen here in their early years. An absolutly pheanomenol film.

fasinating and enjoying.......2003-10-24

this is a really good movie I thought. its about this small town in the desert, Kate Hudson(Almost Famous) and her father John Heard(C.H.U.D.) come to the town for a visit. in the town there is Brendan Sexton III(Boys Dont Cry) who plays Blue, Christina Ricci(Pumpkin) who plays a pipebomb addict and her boyfriend Casey Affleck(Oceans Eleven2001), Sara Gilbert(Rosanne) and her boyfriend Peter Sarsgard(The Salton Sea) and Ethan Suplee(Mallrats). Hudson and Sexton start to have a connection, the town is seiged off by cops because a truck spilled and they dont know if its radioactive or deadly and the 2 start to fall in love and Hudson bonds with his friends who think shes too pretty and shes an actress who some of the people in town saw her on a show. Michael Ironside(Starship Troopers) appears as well as the one of the cops who seige the place up. its filled with comedy, drama, romance and haunting secrets. one of 1999's best

Deserted with a bunch of teens and a star!.......2001-10-27

This movie was not as good as i thought. I think the story is solid but could have more to it. The cast is excellent and each of the characters have their own personalities and goals in life, which add to the way the story turns out. The acting is great - i just think more of a story would have made a more entertaining movie. But overall a good movie I would watch again!!

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The relentless pursuit of trust (aka Looking for Friends in the Southwest)
An OK, entertaining film.
Good yet not????
I have a question:)
Think life in a small town is peaceful...think again!

Blue Desert
Starring: D.B. Sweeney , Courteney Cox , Craig Sheffer , Philip Baker Hall , and Sandy Ward
Director: Bradley Battersby
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ASIN: B00008G8M2
Release Date: 1999-06-22

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The relentless pursuit of trust (aka Looking for Friends in the Southwest).......2007-02-15

This movie plays a little like a Lifetime channel movie or perhaps a network movie of the week, except with a little nudity thrown in. Other reviewers have relayed the plot nicely, so I won't rehash it all here. I find it somewhat disingenuous in its portrayal of men, especially in one of the first scenes. In a bit of contrivance, a policeman chastises Lisa (Courtney Cox), accusing her of inviting repeated sexual assaults. Beg pardon? I suppose it could happen, though I find it a tad too devious to be believable. No one in her new location appears trustworthy, except Officer Smith (D.B. Sweeney), who frequents Lisa's trailer home to protect her from local psycho Randall (an atypically scruffy Craig Sheffer). Her life becomes so relentlessly miserable that the film becomes almost too dreary to watch. Aside from some decent suspense, there really isn't much reason to see this, unless one happens to be a huge fan of one of the aforementioned individuals. I suppose the other interest here would be the bit of nudity Lisa shows, though most of it is a body double for Cox. However, there does appear to be one brief instance when a body double is not used and we see a bit of Courtney. She looks lovely and does a fine job with her role, as do Sweeney, Sheffer and the rest. Worth one viewing, though don't go out of your way.

An OK, entertaining film........2003-09-08

Its been several years since I last saw this film, but I remember it as being a nice bit of somewhat suspenseful evening entertainment. As an East coast native who moved out to the rural Southwest.....and then back East....and then back to the rural Southwest a second time, I could kind of relate to the movie's Courtney Cox coastal metropolitan character and the somewhat quirky small town characters as well.

The song during the closing credits, "What I Make Myself Believe" fits the storyline nicely. For the kimsfish reviewer from Seattle, Washington (Jun/3/2001), there is no movie soundtrack per se that I know of. However the "What I Make Myself Believe" song by Eric Lowen/Dan Navarro can be found on the Lowen and Navarro album entitled "Walking on a Wire".

Good yet not????.......2001-08-21

I'm a huge fan of CeCe...that's the "cox" that is in my name... Anyways, about Blue Desert, i saw it on tv. I had pretty high expectations of it and i also already knew who the "bad" guy was. Like the other guy said, it was kinda corny at points and funny too.

Lisa Roberts (Courteney Cox) is kind of a troubled women. She gets raped on the streets of New York (for the second time) and doesn't get much sympathy from the police department there. She decides to move to the quieter, more open spaces of Arizona where she meets these two men who are seemingly attracted to her. Randall Atkins (Craig Sheffer),is a grungy-low-voice-long-hair sort of guy. He is nice enough though and they go out on a date. She invites him in, and he makes sexual advances towards her. Due to her recent rape, she is uncomfortable and askes him to leave. She eventually knocks him out and that's when we all meet Steve Smith(D.B. Sweeney)the "nice, good" policeman.

As he tries to help Lisa, they also become involved.

Things get weird as both the men try to warn her about the other. It's pretty darn suspensful, that is, if you don't know who the "bad" guy is. Still, the acting is top notch and i recommend this movie to anyone who is a fan of anyone in the cast or just wanna be entertained by a 27 year-old CeCe. It's cute...not the movie, her. Enjoy.

I have a question:).......2001-06-04

I cannot find any information about the soundtrack of this movie. Does anyone know where i can find this music? I know that Dan navaro sings a song in it and i would like to find the soundtrack to purchase.

Think life in a small town is peaceful...think again!.......1999-01-04

After being sexually assaulted, a city woman(Courtney Cox) moves to a small town in search of security and peace of mind. There she meets two men. D.B. Sweeney portrays police officer and local good guy...or is he? Craig Sheffer portrays ex-con and local trouble maker...or is he? One man is out to get her, simply because he is bored with small town existance and needs to create his own thrills. (And because I think he's a little nuts too!) One man is trying to protect her. Who should she trust? Her life depends on it! Looks like the town mechanic is her only ally...or is he? It is as hard for the viewer to tell who's who in this film, as it is for Cox! The focus is constantly shifted between Sheffer and Sweeney, along with the suspicion! What I like about this movie, is that every time you think you have figured out which of the two men is the real bad guy...it does a flip and changes your mind, over and over again and over again! I'll bet you can't figure it out till the end...or can you? Another thing I liked was, even though I knew the outcome, it was just as fun and entertaining to watch a second time from a different perspective! This movie tries to be serious and fails. It is corney at times. There are some funny scenes, but I don't think they are suppose to be funny. These are just a few of the things I like about Blue Desert! It is low budget, B-movie schlock at it's best. Cox is adequate as the paranoid, perpetual victim. Sweeney is convincing in his cop role...or is he? Sheffer is at his creepy best...or is he? It all just goes to show you can't judge a book by it's cover...or can you? If this review has left you wondering, then see Blue Desert...or don't!

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"The King of B-Westerns & Serials...VCI Entertainment ~ Buster Crabbe ... Desert Gold (1936)"

Desert Gold
Starring: Buster Crabbe , Monte Blue , Leif Erickson , Frank Mayo , and Walter Miller
Director: James P. Hogan
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Release Date: 2006-06-06

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"The King of B-Westerns & Serials...VCI Entertainment ~ Buster Crabbe ... Desert Gold (1936)".......2006-09-18

VCI Entertainment and Paramount Pictures present "Desert Gold" (1936) (Dolby
digitally remastered)...relive those thrilling days from the early '30s and '40s
when Buster Crabbe took us down the dusty trails and the plains to exciting
adventures....some of the best B-Westerns ever to grace the Saturday Matinee
Screen...just remember double thrills, chills, mystery and suspense...hitting the bull's eye
with excitement...don't miss any of the Buster Crabbe features loaded with action that will leave
you wanting more of his B-Western adventures

Under director James Hogan, producer Harold Hurley, original story by Zane Grey, screenplay and adaptation by Stuart Anthony & Robert Yost...the cast include Buster Crabbe (Maya),Tom Keene (Randolph Gale),Marsha Hunt (Judith Belding), Monte Blue (Chetley Kasedon), Robert Cummings (Fordyce Mortimer), Raymond Hatton (Doc Belding), Frank Mayo (Bert Lash), Walter Miller (Hank Cade), Leif Erickson (Glenn Kasedon (as Glenn Erickson), Si Jenks (Stage Driver Bert), Art Mix (Henchman). . . . . our story is from the wonderful author of the old west Zane Grey, with an outstanding cast of players...will Monte Blue find the hidden gold mine that is being guarded by Buster Crabbe the faithful Indian Chief who guards the treasure...can Tom Keene and Robert Cummings keep the mine out of the hands of Blue...what part does our heroine Marsha Hunt play in this mysterious venture that will take all of us on a whirlwind ride into adventure and excitement. . . . . . .B-Western footnote, one of my favorite character actors was actor Robert Cummings was known for his comedy and eternally youthful looks (which he attributed to a strict vitamin and health-food diet), became a popular leading man in light comedies and achieved several of his own television series "The Bob Cummings Show", Bob Collins (1955-1959) aka Love That Bob (USA: rerun title)...(1961) TV Series .... Bob Carson aka (The New Bob Cummings Show)..."My Living Doll" (1964) another TV Series as Dr. Robert McDonald (1964-1965)...all were in the top shows to watch during the '50s and '60s. . . . . . ..second B-Western footnote, one of my favorite character actors was Johnny Mack's sidekick Raymond Hatton (1887-1971) as Marshall Sandy Hopkins who appeared from 1943 and made 45 films for Monogram Pictures...Hatton who first appeared on film in "Tragic Love" (1909-Silent/unconfirmed), "Oliver Twist" (1917), "The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923), "The Squaw Man" (1931), "Law and Order" (1932)...during the '30s & '40s he played the comical sidekick for Johnny Mack Brown and Bob Livingston...went on to join Buck Jones and Tim McCoy in the "Rough Riders" series...Hatton worked right up to his last film "In Cold Blood" (1967). . . . .. . . ..check out this and more in a new book "Those Great Cowboy Sidekicks" by David Rothel, available from Amazon and Empire Publishing. . . pick up your copy today..........another great B-Western for Buster Crabbe under the Paramount Pictures banner, proves to be one of his most exciting performances.

Special footnote, actor Buster Crabbe graduated from the University of Southern California and won the 400 meter freestyle in which he medaled in the 1932 Olympics, went to work for Paramount in "King of the Jungle" (1933), next role was "Tarzan the Fearless (1933), Crabbe returned to Paramount Pictures was featured in Zane Grey Westerns which were well received, then came the roles that made him a household word "Flash Gordon" and "Buck Rogers" at Universal Picture Serials (1936-1940), meanwhile PRC Studios was looking for a leading hero "Billy the Kid" and "Billy Carson" in the 1940's B-Western series and ran its course for six years, later made several televison appearances and appeared in a series "Captain Gallant and the Foreign Legion" (1955-1957).....

SPECIAL FEATURES:
BIOS:
1. Buster Crabbe (aka: Clarence Linden Crabbe II)
Birth Date: 2/17/1907 - Oakland California
Died: 4/23/1983 - Scottsdale, Arizona
2. Robert Cummings (aka: Charles Clarence Robert Orville Cummings)
Birth Date: 6/10/1908 - Joplin, Missouri
Died: 12/02/1990 - Woodland Hills, California
3. Raymond William Hatton
Birth Date: 7/07/1887 - Red Oak, Iowa
Died: 10/21/1971 - Palmdale, California (heart attack)

If you crave action, drama and plenty of adventure check out other western double features with Bob Steele:

BUSTER CRABBE WESTERN DOUBLE FEATURES:
1. Vol. 1 - Western Cyclone/Sheriff of Sage Valley (1942-43) (VCI #7213) (DVD)
2. Vol. 2 - Fugitive of the Plains/Fuzzy Settles Down (1943-44) (VCI #7299) (DVD)

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Great job by VCI Entertainment for releasing "Desert Gold" (1936), the
digital transfere with a clean, clear and crisp print...looking forward to more
high quality releases from the vintage serial era of the '20s, '30s & '40s and
B-Westerns...order your copy now from Amazon or VCI Entertainment where there
are plenty of copies available on DVD and VHS, stay tuned once again for top
notch action mixed with deadly adventure from the "King of Serials" VCI...just
the way we like 'em

Total Time: 58 min on DVD/VHS ~ VCI Entertainment #1510 ~ (3/01/2001)

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Desert Paradise (GAY) Grant Woods
Starring: Michael Vista , Tim Boyd , Leo Masters , and Dino Phillips
Director: Rick Van
Manufacturer: Blue Jay Pro
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD
Product Features:

Interactive Menus
Chapter Index
Jump to Your Favorite Scenes
DVD-ROM Compatible
No Regional Coding for World Wide Playback

ASIN: B000N8LN3C

Product Description

dream vacation to see if they'll shed their ungainly braces and crutches when unencumberment equals sexual opportunities.

JOHN WAYNE Collector Series 6 Movie Package... [Angel And The Bad Man / Blue Steel / Dawn Rider / Desert Trail / Randy Rides Alone / Star Packer]

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JOHN WAYNE Collector Series 6 Movie Package... [Angel And The Bad Man / Blue Steel / Dawn Rider / Desert Trail / Randy Rides Alone / Star Packer]

ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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Product Features:

digitally mastered
interactive menus
scene index

ASIN: B000QFRUMU

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Desert Paradise 2: Revenge!
Director: Rick Van
Manufacturer: Blue Jay Productions
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD
Product Features:

Interactive Menus
Chapter Index
Jump to Your Favorite Scenes
DVD-ROM Compatible
No Regional Coding

ASIN: B000LTJLN2

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DESERT PARADISE 2: REVENGE! picks up where the original left off. Allan Gassman comes back as the clever insurance investigator who invites fraudulent insurance claimants to a fun-filled vacation where temptation causes them to be exposed in more ways than one.

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