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- 1939 · Western · 1h 34m
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Rated 3.5/5 Stars • Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Audience Member "Destry Rides Again" is surely as boisterous, rambunctious, and generally exuberant as any Western one is...
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- James Stewart
- George Marshall
- Universal Pictures
Deputy Tom Destry Jr. (James Stewart) rides in to Bottleneck and sets about ridding the town of its riff-raff elements, without guns! Based on the novel by Max Brand, Destry Rides Again simultaneously spoofed the western genre whilst reinvigorating Marlene Dietrich's flagging career.
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- Picture 8/10
- Audio 6/10
- Extras 5/10
- Closing
Marlene Dietrich and James Stewart ride high in this superb comedic western, both a boisterous spoof and a shining example of the genre it is having fun with. As the brawling, rough-and-tumble saloon singer Frenchy, Dietrich shed her exotic love-goddess image and launched a triumphant career comeback, while Stewart cemented his amiable everyman per...
George Marshall’s Destry Rides Againcomes to Blu-ray via The Criterion Collection, presented with a 1080p/24hz high-definition encode in its original aspect ratio of 1.35:1 on a dual-layer disc. The presentation comes from a new 4K restoration performed by Universal and The Film Foundation. The end results are pretty good, though I was surprised by...
The lossless PCM mono presentation is what it is, but it’s more than serviceable enough. There are no major problems, dialogue is clear, music sounds fine, and it doesn’t sound to have been filtered excessively (at least), so there is some modest oomphto it.
The film gets a modest little special edition after Universal’s featureless DVD from almost 2 decades ago. There are a couple of new interviews, the first with Imogen Sara Smith, who explains how the film broke the genre rules of the time from making the hero more of a pacifist (or at least didn’t like using guns) to sending up many elements of the...
Feeling to have fallen to the wayside a bit, Destry Rides Againreceives a nice Blu-ray release with a wonderful looking presentation. It’s just a shame it’s not the big special edition I would have expected. BUY AT:
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Full Review | Oct 3, 2018. Emanuel Levy EmanuelLevy.Com. Starring James Stewart and Marlene Dietrich, both in top form, this comedic-erotic Western was one of the most commercially popular films...
Apr 23, 2020 · on Criterion Blu-ray. The film is less a parody than a surprisingly beautiful and somber precursor to many autumnal “late” westerns. by Chuck Bowen. April 23, 2020. Much of George Marshall’s 1939 western Destry Rides Again ingeniously pivots on a single set: a saloon the size of a ballroom, with many floors teeming with an array of hearty ...
Destry Rides Again was generally well accepted by the public, as well as critics. It was reviewed by Frank S. Nugent in The New York Times , who observed that the film did not follow the usual Hollywood type-casting.
- December 29, 1939 (United States)
- Joe Pasternak
IMDb RATING. 7.6 /10. 13K. YOUR RATING. Rate. Play trailer 2:25. 1 Video. 60 Photos. Comedy Western. Deputy sheriff Destry tames the town of Bottle Neck, including saloon singer Frenchy. Director. George Marshall. Writers. Felix Jackson. Gertrude Purcell. Henry Myers. Stars. Marlene Dietrich. James Stewart. Mischa Auer.
