anyone need a laserdisc player ?

[gmgraves]

5 hours ago, bobbmd said:

@Boomboy Sorry to hear that-- I have 2 of them one a Pioneer Elite and a slew of discs including Top Gun/ The Alamo(full director's cut did you know John Ford did most of the directing?) and the anniversary edition of Casablanca. Don't even know if it still works. Really a shame still looking for a good home for them.

I hope you didn’t think that the Duke actually directed this blockbuster of a film? The Duke was good actor (albeit with a narrow range. Can’t see the Duke playing Macbeth, for instance), but he was no director. On the other hand, “Pappy” Ford was one of the greatest directors of all time.

I once had LaserDiscs (over 400 of them) and players, but the dread “laser-rot” and generally poor resolution of discs combined with the poor tracking of the analog playback system caused me to ash-can the player, and give the discs away after DVD came out.

[gmgraves]

15 hours ago, bobbmd said:

@gmgraves oh no gm always knew Ford did most if not all of the directing had to...those sequences especially “Houston arrives” and “Crockett arrives” are pure Ford but a Wayne admirer like me would love to think it was an homage to his mentor but  a Tarantino he was not. And yes my 2 players just got put away and I wasn’t aware of the rot thing but think that laser disc was the ‘director’s cut’ too bad because it’s not in any other format.  And Wayne although marginal should have won Oscars for ‘she wore a yellow ribbon’  ‘the searchers’ and ‘the-quiet man’ wonder why? Feel bad for @Boomboy. I still have my program from reserved seat initial showing with an intermission!

Don’t forget Red River. The only time when The Duke did not play a very Sympathetic character. He played a malicious martinet, and he was good at it too. That might have been his most demanding role. But director Howard Hawkes knew that Duke was good for it and could pull it off.