Tonight's Movie: Sierra (1950) - A Kino Lorber Blu-ray Review
SIERRA (1950) is now available on Blu-ray as part of the brand-new Audie Murphy Collection II from Kino Lorber.
Although Riley is engaged to Duke Lafferty (Elliot Reid), she's viewed as a curiosity by townspeople because she's an educated attorney, and even Duke isn't really comfortable with her advocacy. In her own way Riley is as much an "outsider" as Ring.
Soon enough everyone in town seems to be on a crash course regarding the Hassards...
I enjoyed this film, directed by Alfred E. Green and filmed by Russell Metty, as much on my revisit as I did initially. It's a fast-moving 83 minutes packed with a sea of great faces: Sara Allgood, Elisabeth Risdon, Griff Barnett, Houseley Stevenson, Tony Curtis, James Arness, John Doucette, Roy Roberts, and I. Stanford Jolley. It's hard to miss with a cast like that!Ives adds a great deal to the film's mood with his genial presence and music, especially the haunting "Hideaway" by Arnold Hughes and Frederick Herbert.
The screenplay by Edna Anhalt and Milton Gunzburg was based on the novel THE MOUNTAINS ARE MY KINGDOM by Stuart Hardy. It was previously filmed as FORBIDDEN VALLEY (1938) with Noah Beery Jr. and Frances Robinson. I'd like to hunt that one down!
For more details on SIERRA, as well as background on the real-life marriage of Murphy and Hendrix, please visit my 2013 review.Kino Lorber's Blu-ray print looks and sounds great. Extras consist of the trailer; a gallery of four additional trailers; and a commentary track by Westerns expert Toby Roan.
Coming soon: My review of another film in this set, DESTRY (1954), will be published soon in my Western RoundUp column for Classic Movie Hub. A preview: I liked it a lot! (Update: Here is my DESTRY review, and I've also now reviewed KANSAS RAIDERS.)
Thanks to Kino Lorber for providing a review copy of this Blu-ray.
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