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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Binding: DVD Brand: Warner Brothers EAN: 0053939786422 Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, DVD-Video, Subtitled, NTSC Item Dimensions: Label: Turner Home Ent Languages: Manufacturer: Turner Home Ent MPN: T7864 Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Turner Home Ent Region Code: 1 Release Date: May 22, 2007 Running Time: 80 minutes Studio: Turner Home Ent Theatrical Release Date: November 10, 1939 Editorial Review: Product Description: Set in British colonial America troubles arise when James Smith (John Wayne) disregards rules set by the government concerning the trading of goods to Native Americans. He organizes a group to disguise themselves and disrupts shipments causing his imprisonment.Runtime: 81 minsFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: WESTERN/MISC. Rating: NR UPC: 053939786422 Manufacturer No: T7864 Amazon.com: Allegheny Uprising is an engaging blend of historical fiction, boisterous backwoods comedy, and pretty much nonstop rowdydow that qualifies as one of John Wayne's more offbeat vehicles. Made half a year after his stellar breakout in Stagecoach, the picture re-teams Wayne with Claire Trevor as a frontier tomboy who supplies feisty love interest. A decade and a half before the Revolutionary War, a community in south-central Pennsylvania (apparently Chambersburg) stages a principled rebellion against King George III's forces that's more social protest than full-fledged revolt. Wayne plays a thoughtful fellow named Jim Smith who, with his "men of the Conococheague," demonstrates to the Crown that it's bad faith to lend military protection to unscrupulous traders (cue Brian Donlevy) clandestinely peddling firearms and English-made weaponry to the Indians. Now, there just aren't that many "Westerns" set in Pennsylvania, so Allegheny Uprising gets points for freshness. It also falls into a limbo between A and B movies, coming in at a trim 80 minutes but boasting larger action set-pieces (shot on location in credibly Pennsylvanian pockets of California) than was customary for RKO, a studio that tended toward in-house miniatures; Nicholas Musuraca, a future Val Lewton and film noir mainstay, proves himself a master of sunlit cinematography as well. Director William A. Seiter (with a string of Shirley Temple movies behind him) never finds a satisfying overall rhythm, and there are odd scraps of unrealized intentions in producer P.J. Wolfson's script (e.g., the sudden murder of a captured Indian raider at knifepoint, whereupon Smith ruefully observes, "We teach 'em everything, don't we?"). The most interesting element of the film is George Sanders' performance as an intransigent Brit officer who causes much of the strife with the Colonials, yet discloses unexpected vulnerability in private moments. --Richard T. Jameson Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Worthwhile pre-Revolution adventureThe same year Stagecoach was released, John Wayne and Claire Trevor teamed for another movie, Allegheny Uprising, that's almost completely forgetten in relation to the John Ford classic. In 1760 after three years in captivity by an Indian tribe, James Smith and his friend, the Professor, return home to find several tribes on the warpath. These Indians have been supplied with muskets, shot and powder, and tomahawks by a trader looking to make it big. Smith and his neighbors must figure out how ... Read More Rating: - A relatively obscure classic for John Wayne fansThis is a relatively obscure classic that all fans of John Wayne should have in their video collection. It trades off any lack of historical accuracy for a high "nostalgia value" given by a straight-forward story line and the enthusiastic acting style of 1930's American cinema. Rating:  - A John Wayne ClassicThis movie is so good that I have seen it so many times on TV snd was thrilled to now have it on DVD. The action of the movie was great ! This is in the top 20 of my favorite movies. Rating: - Allegheny UprisingTHis was a ecellant movie of the duke in his prime. I would highly recommend this movie to not jus John Wayne collectors, but anyone who likes the movie of the old frontier. Rating: - All men were brave!John Wayne leads a bunch of brave men disposed to avoid by all their means the mockeries and corruption of a crooked, ruthless and tyrannical British officer who deals leaving aside pacts and rules in times of Pre-revolutionary colonies. Wayne's acting is natural, and riveting but Claire Trevor steals the show as an Iris pretty girl who demonstrates more than once to be in love with his male angel, and makes her own epic battle too in order to conquer him. Go for ... Read More |
