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A Good Oldie: Up the River | Ford At Fox Collection: John Ford's American Comedies (Steamboat Around the Bend / Judge Priest / Doctor Bull ... | Dan Dailey, Corinne Calvet

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	• Ford At Fox Collection: John Ford's American Comedies (Steamboat Around the Bend / Judge Priest / Doctor Bull ... Dan Dailey, Corinne Calvet 20th Century Fox, 2007 average customer review:based on 3 reviews view larger image
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Ford at Fox Collection

Ford At Fox - The Collection
The Box is quite a bargain. Even though some of the films are a bit dated
they are still fun to watch. The picture quality of the older films is surpraisingly good. John Ford wasn't just a director of western. Recomanded not only to John Ford-Fans.

Six comedies from the giant "Ford at Fox" DVD set

This package takes six of the comedy films that are part of the giant "Ford at Fox" DVD package and breaks it into a smaller more affordable subset. The films included are:

Up The River (1930) - Contains the early sound problems common to most early talkies plus the obligatory singing and dancing (not done very well) inserted into a film that has the only mutual appearance of Spencer Tracy and Humphrey Bogart. No early talkie was complete without a musical number.
Feature film with English Mono and Spanish/French subtitles
Theatrical trailer
Still gallery

Doctor Bull (1933) - stars Will Rogers in the first of three collaborations between Ford and Rogers.
Feature film with English Mono and Spanish/French subtitles

Judge Priest (1934) - stars Will Rogers as a southern Judge who enjoys taffy pulls and croquet when not on the bench.
Feature film with English Mono and Spanish

Steamboat Round The Bend (1935) - stars Will Rogers (already on DVD). The final collaboration between Rogers and Ford is perhaps the best. Rogers plays a man going up and down the Mississippi on an old steamboat charging the local population admission to look at the wax figures he is carrying. He plans to use the money he raises to hire a lawyer to free his nephew from a serious charge.
Feature film with English Stereo and English Mono and Spanish subtitles
Commentary by Author Scott Eyman
Restoration comparison
Theatrical trailer
Will Rogers Theater: Doubting Thomas, In Old Kentucky, Life Begins at 40 /French subtitles

When Willie Comes Marching Home (1950) - stars Dan Dailey. Willie joins the army to become a war hero, but winds up doing training duty right back in his home town.
Feature film with English Mono and Spanish/French subtitles
Restoration comparison
Advertising gallery

What Price Glory (1952) - stars James Cagney (already on DVD). This was based on an anti-war play that Ford turned into a comedy with rather strange results. Probably the oddest and the weakest of the entries.
Feature film with English Stereo or English Mono, Spanish Mono and Spanish subtitles
Two theatrical trailers
Fox Flix: Crash Dive, The Hunters, Morituri

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A Good Oldie: Up the River

This video was colorized by Ted Turner, apparently as the colors are subdued and bland. The music was like that in "Guys and Dolls" with a prison band and at the ballgame. Clare Luce was a gangster's moll, with hair like mine. The entertainment in prison (Up the River) was black face, one played a bozoo like those two crazies. A long horn was used in vaudeville.

Tempers flare backstage. In the prison, the majority of inmates was white, and mean like those we know as internet bullies. "My Buddy" was on the old time victrola. M O T H E R was sung by a tenor. "Be Kind to your Feathered Friends" was funny. On the hayride with four horses, there was singing and meriment. Those men in white pants and dark tops are on old fashioned radio.

Mark loved it.

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Disc 1: STEAMBOAT AROUND THE BEND Disc 2 Side A: JUDGE PRIEST Disc 2 Side B: DR. BULL Disc 3 Side A: WHEN WILLIE COMES MARCHING HOME Disc 3 Side B: UP THE RIVER Disc 4: WHAT PRICE GLORY