The Command - DVD

With shootemups galore a cleancut hero dustbeaten horse soldiers and fearless warriors The Command Warner Bros. first CinemaScope release is a galloping entertainment success. Guy Madison portrays 7th cavalry doctor Capt. Robert MacClaw unexpectedly handed the reins of his battered troops command. Unfamiliar with bythebook military tactics MacClaw nevertheless knows how to take charge. He keeps the book closed and his mind open as he leads his men and a settlers wagon train on a desperate journey besieged by waves of Indian attacks. Multiple Oscar winner Dimitri Tiomkin provides the lively score pacing the thunderous action. And plenty of hoofs provide the thunder: the movies wrangler estimated the project required 41882 horsehours number of horses times number of hours used. That aint hay. A healer must learn how to kill in this compelling Western. An army doctor takes command of a decimated cavalry unit under attack by Indians. The Command was Warner Bros. first Technicolor release. Guy Madison then extremely popular with western fans by virtue of the TVer Wild Bill Hickok heads the cast as Army medical captain McClaw. When a cavalry commander is killed McClaw the nexthighestranking officer is forced to assume command even though his combat experience is practically nil. Overcoming the resentment of the men under his command McClaw is able to stem an Indian attack and rescue a wagon trainnot through any sort of brilliant strategy but by improvising as he goes along. Harvey Lembecks comicrelief role as a grousing trooper was later parodied by Billy Crystal in Mr. Saturday Night alas this sequence was left on the cutting room floor when Crystals film hit the screens. Also in the cast are aish Magnificent Obsession. Hal Erickson Rovi. Genre: Westerns. Release Date: 7 September 2010. Directed By: David Butler. Studio: WHV ARCHIVE WHVA . Running Time: 94. Region: 0. Display: Enhanced Wide Screen Letterbox for 16x9 TV. Audio: Dolby Digital Mono English. Discs: 1. Format: NTSC. Cast: Boyd Red MorganCpl. Fleming Carl Benton ReidCol. Janeway Don SheltonMaj. Gibbs Gregg BartonCapt. Forsythe Guy MadisonCapt. MacClaw Harvey LembeckGottschalk James WhitmoreSgt. Elliott Joan WeldonMartha Cutting Ray TealDr. Trent Renata VanniMrs. Pellegrini Robert Nichols Tom MonroeNikirk Zachary YaconelliMr. Pellegrini. Crew: Art Director:Bertram Tuttle Cinematographer:Wilfrid M. Cline Composer Music Score:Dimitri Tiomkin Director:David Butler Producer:David Weisbart Screenwriter:Russell S. Hughes Screenwriter:Samuel Fuller. Extras: WsDvdR Nr Clr Dvd Mod. Dimensions: 7.5L x 0.5H x 5.4W.