VHS : Sons of Katie Elder
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starring: John Wayne, Dean Martin, Martha Hyer, Michael Anderson Jr., Earl Hollimandirected by: Henry Hathaway
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9780792105909
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
ISBN: 0792105907
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Release Date: February 19, 1997
Running Time: 122 minutes
Sales Rank: 14829
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: July 01, 1965
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Editorial Review:
Amazon.com:
John Wayne recovered from his first bout with cancer to appear in this 1965 film as the brother of Dean Martin, Earl Holliman, and Michael Anderson Jr. All four characters are wandering souls prone to trouble, but after the funeral of their frontier mother, they set out to avenge her death. Directed by Henry Hathaway (Wayne's director on True Grit), the film moves like a conventional, latter-day Western, with good performances from Wayne and Martin, who'd already costarred with the Duke in Howard Hawks's Rio Bravo. Nice support from Dennis Hopper (who had a legendary conflict with Hathaway on this film), Strother Martin, and George Kennedy. --Tom Keogh
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Best Western
I generally like all John Wayne westerns but this one had such a work
together cast and Wayne's character was accurately portrayed throughout
the whole movie that I got the feeling that this was truly a believable
story.
Rating:  - Great Classic Western
This was a birthday gift for my brother and he was so happy. The quality was good and we really enjoyed watching the Duke
Rating: - Big Bad John
The Duke is John Elder,a man with a reputation with a gun,he's back in town for his mothers funeral where all the Elder brother's eventually meet to find out the status of Katie Elders estate she may have left behind for her sons.a good plot,lots of gunplay,John Wayne at his best as usual,Dean Martin is good as Tom Elder,though I've seen him in better roles as the drunk character,Dude,in Rio Bravo.To tell you how tough the Duke really was,Wayne always insisted on doing his own stunts as in this movie ... Read More
Rating: - Great screenplay! Great soundtrack! Unpredictable and engaging throughout the entire film.
What more can you want in a movie? In my book this is one of the best movies of the 1960's. As the story unfolds the plot keeps you and the characters are fun and remarkably developed which is why I consider this one of the best screenplays ever and I am surprised by the lack of recognition it has achieved on that level.
Rating: - Not a great Waynestern, but a good one with very enjoyable twists
This is a different sort of Western for John Wayne. While he has a big reputation as a gunfighter, he spends the film avoiding fighting as much as he can. Wayne also has fewer action sequences in the film. This may simply be due to the plot of the movie, or it may have been his recover from lung cancer surgery and treatment that he had in 1964 and had delayed the shooting of the film until 1965. Wayne insisted on doing all his own stunts even though it had only been four months since he had the cancerous ... Read More
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