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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Paramount
EAN: 0097368535442
Format: Box set, Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
Item Dimensions: 100
Label: Paramount
Languages: EnglishOriginal Language
Manufacturer: Paramount
MPN: PARD853544D
Number Of Items: 3
Publisher: Paramount
Region Code: 1
Release Date: May 27, 2008
Running Time: 480 minutes
Studio: Paramount

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Editorial Review:

Amazon.com:
Dodge City has a bad reputation. It's "the wickedest, cruelest town in Kansas," some Wichita yokel notes in the episode, "Sweet and Sour." "No decent man could stand it more than a day." Marshall Matt Dillon (James Arness) is a decent man, but he's got a reputation, too. Residents know not to mess with him. When he tells one alcohol-fueled miscreant to give up his gun in the episode, "Chester's Murder," the man instantly complies, "Sure, I ain't that drunk." But it's not just his marksmanship that distinguishes Dillon. When a former Army officer shows up in Dodge angling for Dillon's job in "The Man Who Would Be Marshal," Dillon demonstrates his keen grasp of human nature. Rather than arrest a rowdy sodbuster, he allows him to "blow off steam," explaining, "That's his way of reminding himself he's a man." But the psychological toll of the dark and bloody side of Dillon's job is the focus of "Bloody Hands," one of the best episodes in this collection of season-concluding episodes. Dillon kills three bank robbers. It's self-defense, but that doesn't stop the nightmares, and he resigns. It's up to his trusty sidekick, Chester (Dennis Weaver) to appeal to his sense of justice. The bad guys, he pleads, "gotta be stopped, and that's all." And stop 'em Dillon does in his own inimitable style. After punching one man, his friends complain, "You hit him with your fist. We don't like it." Dillon coolly replies, "How do you know? You haven't tried it yet" As another bad man remarks in "Cheap Labor," "That ain't no way for a lawman to talk." Dillon still has a little to learn about women. In "Sweet and Sour," he insists that Miss Kitty (Amanda Blake), who becomes the co-owner of the Longbranch saloon, hire Rena, a pretty newcomer to town. "A pretty face will throw you any time," Kitty cautions. "Her kind spells nothing but trouble." Sure enough, four men are dead after Rena instigates fights over her. Gunsmoke set a new standard for the television western. Dillon is occasionally wrong, innocent people are killed, and not all episodes end with justice served or the expected happy ending. In one episode, a photographer (Sebastian "Mr. French" Cabot) sets up his camera in Dodge City. "It's authenticity I'm after," he insists. In these half-hour black and white episodes, Gunsmoke achieved it. --Donald Liebenson

Description:
Marshal Matt Dillon is responsible for keeping the law and respectability in Dodge City in this western action-drama. Gunsmoke captured the courage, character and spirit of the Western Frontier.

Customer Reviews

Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating:

- Great series bad marketing
Gunsmoke is the ultimate Western. Every episode is a classic most of which were written by John Meston.

However, I would strongly encourage everyone to write to Paramount Home Entertainment and complain as to these silly half season releases.
This is the letter I just sent to them:

I am sure that a visit to Amazon.com would convince you that your company's marketing of TV by the half season is greatly unpopular.
As a fan of CBS's Gunsmoke, I lament in the fact ... Read More

Rating:

- Gunsmoke--Great Show
Gunsmoke--even afer 50 years it's a great show to watch. The 30 minute episodes bring back fond memories of Saturday nights in the 1950's, watching my first true love--Chester.

Rating:

- Excellent!
While I would prefer the individual seasons be sold as a complete set versus splitting it into sections, I thoroughly enjoyed season 2 vol 2. IMO the stories in the earlier seasons which are in black and white far exceed those in the color episodes in later years (although I enjoy those as well). It's hard to beat a good episode of Gunsmoke!! Keep those seasons coming!!

Rating:

- GUNSMOKE SEASON 2 VOL. 2.
I AM A HUGE FAN OF THE "GUNSMOKE" TV SERIES, THIS DVD SET IS VOL.2 OF SEASON 2, WHICH ARE EPISODES I HAVE NEVER SEEN. THIS IS DEFINATELY A MUST HAVE FOR ANY FAN OF THE SHOW. CAN'T WAIT FOR SEASON 3!!! NADINE

Rating:

- The Actors Find Their Characters
The lead actors have all found their characters by the second half of Season 2. They seem to wear their TV personas like comfortable old coats. For those of you who are not familiar with the radio series that gave rise to the TV encarnation, give special attention to the episode entitled "Skid Row". It will give you an idea of the kind of adult approach to the western for which it was famous. It was writing like this that set Gunsmoke apart from all other 50's westerns. I can't wait for the release ... Read More

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