Black Bart (1948) + Ride to Hangman's Tree (1967) DVD-R

Get the original film, Black Bart (1948), and the remake, Ride to Hangman's Tree (1967), for 20% off their individual prices!

BLACK BART (1948)

Starring Yvonne De Carlo, Dan Duryea, Jeffrey Lynn, Percy Kilbride, Lloyd Gough
Directed by George Sherman

Print: color
Runtime: 80 min.
Genre: western
Print Quality: B

Worthless from a historical aspect, Black Bart is nonetheless an enjoyable fabrication
about the fabled Western outlaw. Rescued from a "necktie party," outlaws Charles E. Boles
(Dan Duryea) and Lance Hardeen (Jeffrey Lynn) decide that it would be best to part as
friends and go their separate ways. When next seen, Boles is a prosperous rancher who
supplements his income by robbing the Wells Fargo gold shipments under the alias of Black
Bart. Upon learning this, Hardeen rides back into Boles' life demanding a piece of the action.
Both of the hero-villains are foiled when they succumb to the charms of the bewitching
international courtesan Lola Montez (Yvonne DeCarlo). The story is related in
flashback-from a jail cell by the outlaws' erstwhile partner Jersey Brady (Percy Kilbride). Black Bart was remade in
1967 as Ride to Hangman's Tree.

RIDE TO HANGMAN'S TREE (1967)

Starring Jack Lord, Melodie Johnson, James Farentino, Don Galloway,
Richard Anderson
Directed by Alan Rafkin

Print: color
Runtime: 90 min.
Genre: western
Print quality: A

The movie opens as two outlaws are just being rescued from being hung
as thieves by an old friend. They go their separate ways, but keep
running into each other across the country on their way to California as
they alternately are on the good and bad side of the law. Their rescuer
becomes the infamous "Black Bandit," the nemesis of the Wells Fargo
line, they work for the line and have to protect it. They decide to rob the
line.... ad infinitum. Good working relationship between the actors makes
this a much more comfortable movie than it might have been with the
hackneyed plot line.