WARNERS & PARAMOUNT TEAM TO CELEBRATE THE DUKE'S 100TH BIRTHDAY
Warner Brothers Home Video and Paramount Home Entertainment have combined forces to provide John Wayne fans with the ultimate video collection - a celebration of the Duke's 100th birthday. Movie lovers will need true grit to get through all of the video offerings from both studios. The most exciting news is that Warners is debuting six Wayne features never before available on DVD: Allegheny Uprising, Reunion in France, Tycoon, Without Reservations, Trouble Along the Way and Big Jim McLain. While these may not be among Wayne's most acclaimed achievements, their unavailability on DVD has been annoyance to fans, especially completionist collectors who have long sought to replace their aging VHS versions with DVD editions.
Warners is releasing the six Wayne films new to DVD as individual titles and as a set titled
The John Wayne Film Collection.
WB is also releasing "must-have" collector's editions of two of Duke's
most popular titles: his 1959 classic for director Howard Hawks,
Rio Bravo and his 1972 box-office hit
The Cowboys.