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VHS : Riders of Purple Sage |
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786303962276
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
ISBN: 6303962270
Label: Turner Home Ent
Manufacturer: Turner Home Ent
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Turner Home Ent
Release Date: October 10, 2000
Running Time: 97 minutes
Studio: Turner Home Ent
Theatrical Release Date: January 21, 1996
Sales Rank: 126
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Average Rating: 
Rating:  -
This made for TV movie was a wonderful surprise! The production is superb and the cast outstanding. In fact, I believe that it would have done well as a theatrical release!
I only take issue with two things:
1) This fine movie has never been released on DVD and it is certainly worthy of such a reissue -- hopefully with some special features.
2) I am a Mormon Studies Scholar and I purchased this video to get acquainted with what is considered one of the definitive, ... Read More
Rating:  -
It was well acted, exciting, evoking emmotions up to the very end of let the truth be known
even in this day and time love and good always triumph over evil
Rating: -
I grew up on "B" westerns on LA's channel 11.
The plots became formulaic after a while?
As when the Italian westerns with Clint Eastwood came out,
I had thought they just couldn't do anything new in a western.
This one put a cork in that.
The book was first published in 1918.
There have been several cowboy bands named after this novel.
Loren Zane Grey has resurrected Lassiter in a continuation
of his father's work ( and was successful doing it because this is ... Read More
Rating:  -
Perhaps I should not have read the book first. The book was terrific: colorful characters, beautiful descriptive passages of the Utah country (as only Zane Grey can write), great story lines.
The movie, while hitting on all the main points of the story, left out a lot of detail that made the book so wonderful, and helped to tie things together. I was really disappointed. The characters of Lassiter and Venters, although heroic in the movie, were much more colorful in the book, especially Venters. I ... Read More
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The actors are superb and are working with what I consider one of the most romantic and exciting western stories ever published (one of my favorites).
I hope that this will come out on DVD.
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