The Bravados

Starring:Gregory Peck, Joan Collins, Stephen Boyd, Albert Salmi, Henry Silva, Kathleen Gallant, Barry Coe, George Voskovec, Herbert Rudley, Lee Van Cleef, Andrew Duggan, Ken Scott, Gene Evans, Ninos Cantores de Morelia Choral Group, Robert Adler, Jacqueline Evans, Ada Carrasco, Jason Wingreen, Robert Griffin, Alicia del Lago
Director: Henry King
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Product Type: DVD

Editorial Review:
Amazon.com
During his Twentieth Century Fox contract years, Gregory Peck looked to veteran director Henry King as something of a father figure and gave two of his best performances--in Twelve O'Clock High (1949) and The Gunfighter (1950)--for him. The Bravados (1958) isn't in that league, but it's a surprisingly tough film from the flabby CinemaScope years when the studio, director, and star all seemed to be floundering.

Peck plays Jim Douglass, a dark, haunted man who rides into a Southwest border town on the eve of a hanging. The bad men set for the drop (Stephen Boyd, Albert Salmi, Lee Van Cleef, Henry Silva) are the same ones he's been pursuing for the rape and murder of his wife. Douglass isn't happy about leaving it to the law to carry out his vengeance--and so there's a certain bleak satisfaction when the quartet busts out of jail, and he becomes the best hope for hunting them down.

Amazon.com

During his Twentieth Century Fox contract years, Gregory Peck looked to veteran director Henry King as something of a father figure and gave two of his best performances--in Twelve O'Clock High (1949) and The Gunfighter (1950)--for him. The Bravados (1958) isn't in that league, but it's a surprisingly tough film from the flabby CinemaScope years when the studio, director, and star all seemed to be floundering.

Description

Jim Douglas (Gregory Peck) rides into town the night before the hanging of four outlaws. He's been on their trail, believing they raped and killed his wife. But hours before the execution, the four escape, taking a beautiful young woman hostage. Now it

Customer Reviews:

A dour Western with a downbeat ending..........2006-11-10

"The Bravados" exposed a tragic violation of justice, and a confession of an error from a severe threatening widower (Gregory Peck) entirely blind in chasing four killers who, he believes, raped and murdered his wife... Peck is seen at one time the ruthless judge, jury and executioner...

The entertaining thing about the film is probably the manhunt of the accused men who escape from jail taking with them a female hostage Kathleen Gallant...

Gregory Peck's character as the blind seeker of justice is fit to be despised... With a downbeat climax this sour revenge Western remembered me the persistent Captain Ahab with his determination to finish with the killer whale, performed also by Peck...

Peck has continued to refine the identity of the avenging hero keeping his character alive through the good intervention of his heroic persona...

The four outlaws create a false impression in pretending indifference to misfortune...

"The Bravados" is a dour Western with a downbeat ending... The production is good, but the entertainment uneasy...

"Peck...Collins...Boyd...Salmi...King ~ The Bravados (1958)".......2006-08-16

20th Century Fox Home Entertainment present "THE BRAVADOS" (1958) (98 mins Color), under director Henry King , producer Herbert B. Swope, Jr., novel by Frank O'Rourke., screenwriter Philip Yordan, musical direction by Bernhard Kaun, music score by Lionel Newman . . . . .cast includes Gregory Peck (Jim Douglas), Joan Collins (Josefa Velarde), Stephen Boyd (Bill Zachary), Albert Salmi (Ed Taylor), Henry Silva (Lujan), Kathleen Gallant (Emma), Barry Coe (Tom), George Voskovec (Gus Steinmetz), Herbert Rudley (Sheriff Elroy Sanchez ), Lee Van Cleef (Alfonso Parral ), Andrew Duggan (Padre), Ken Scott (Primo), Gene Evans (Butler), Curly Joe DeRita (Mr. Simms), Robert Adler (Tony Mirabel). . . . . . . our story has a great script with a top notch veteran cast under the baton direction of Henry King, has Gregory Peck hot on the trail of four men who are outlaws Stephen Boyd, Albert Salmi, Henry Silva and Lee Van Cleef...Peck believes these men raped and murdered his wife...the scene changes inside a jail where the men are going to the gallows in the morning...the tables are turned when the outlaws escape and Peck is hot on their trail again with the towns blessing...a shocker and a real twist in the final scene not inclusive of your usual suspects. . . . .much of the success of this film is due to the direction of Henry King (born: 24th January 1886 in Christiansburg, Virginia - died: 29th June 1982 in Toluca Lake, California) was an American film director...before coming to film, King worked as an actor in various repertoire theaters, and first started to take small film roles in 1912...King directed for the first time in 1915, and grew to become one of the most commercially successful Hollywood directors of the 1920s and 1930s...King was nominated for the best director Oscar twice, but did not win on either occasion...his films include "Alexander's Ragtime Band" (1938), "Jesse James" (1939), "The Black Swan" 1942), In 1944, he was awarded the first ever Golden Globe Award award for best director for his film "The Song of Bernadette", based on the novel of the same name by Franz Werfel..."Captain from Castile" (1947), "Prince of Foxes" (1949), "12 O'Clock High" (1949), "The Gunfighter" (1950), "David and Bathsheba" (1951), "The Snows of Kilimanjaro" (1952), "King of the Khyber Rifles" (1953), "Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing" (1955), "Carousel" (1956), "The Sun Also Rises" (1957), "Tender is the Night" (1962)...Henry King was one of the 36 founders of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which awards the Oscars every year, King directed over 100 films in his career.

Specal footnote, actor Gregory Peck was not only a wonderful actor but a great human being, of his own movies, "To Kill a Mockingbird" (1962) is Peck's favourite, his character from "To Kill a Mockingbird" (1962), Atticus Finch, was voted the greatest screen hero of all time by the American Film Institute in May 2003, only two weeks before his death (beating out Indiana Jones, who was placed second, and James Bond who came third)...Brock Peters delivered his eulogy on the day of his funeral and burial, June 16, 2003. In To Kill a Mockingbird (1962), Peters played Tom Robinson, the black man accused of raping a white girl that Atticus Finch (Peck's character) defended in court....on his 1962 Oscar-winning role in "To Kill A Mockingbird", "I put everything I had into it, all my feelings and everything I'd learned in 46 years of living, about family life and fathers and children, and my feelings about racial justice and inequality and opportunity."

SPECIAL FEATURES:
BIOS:
1. Gregory Peck (aka: Eldred Gregory Peck)
Date of birth: 4/05/1916 - La Jolla, California, USA
Date of death: 6/12/2003 - Los Angeles, California
2. Joan Collins (aka: Joan Henrietta Collins)
Date of birth: 23 May 1933 - London, England, UK
Date of Death: Still Living
3. Stephen Boyd (aka: William Millar)
Date of birth: 4 July 1931 - Glengormley, Northern Ireland, UK
Date of death: 2 June 1977 - Northridge, California
4. Henry King (Director)
Date of birth: 24 January 1886 - Christiansburg, Virginia
Date of death: 29 June 1982 - Toluca Lake, California

Want to thank 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment for releasing "Bravados" (1958), the digital transfere with a clean, clear and crisp print...looking forward to more high quality releases from the vintage era of the '40s & '50s...order your copy now from Amazon or 20th Century Fox Entertainment where there are plenty of copies available, stay tuned once again for top notch wonderful character actors of the cinema brought back so many wonderful memories of the times when film makers cared about you who purchased a ticket and came back for more...just the way we like 'em.

Total Time: 98 mins on DVD ~ 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment #2227268 ~ (5/24/2005)

Western that Explores a Moral Issue.......2006-07-28

A good story with a surprise twist at the end. A must for any Gregory Peck fan; some of the other acting is a little uneven. The moral issue of playing both judge and jury as not really satisfactorily resolved, but a decent attempt is made. Overall a good story.

One of the best Westerns in the old style.......2005-12-05

Although production values have definitely gotten better, this 1958 western revenge story is still very tightly directed by any standards. I think it is one of Gregory Peck's best roles. It casts (a new) Lee Van Cleef and Stephen Boyd as villains; Boyd is chillingly psychopathic. Albert Salmi and Henry Silva (I remember him best as the dope fiend in Sharky's Machine) are "good" bad guys as well. The ending is terrific and packs as much of a whallop as I remembered.

the bravados.......2005-08-16

excellent purchase i am more than happy with the dvd.
A+1 thanx

Western Four-Pack (The Bravados / Buffalo Bill / Drums Along the Mohawk / In Old Arizona)

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Western Four-Pack (The Bravados / Buffalo Bill / Drums Along the Mohawk / In Old Arizona)
Starring: Gregory Peck , Joan Collins , Stephen Boyd , Albert Salmi , and Henry Silva
Director: Henry King , William A. Wellman , and John Ford
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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ASIN: B000AQ69G8
Release Date: 2005-11-01

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Disc 1: "Bravados" Disc 2: "Buffalo Bill" Disc 3: "Drums Along the Mohawk" Disc 4: "In Old Arizona"

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