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starring: Gary Cooper, Phyllis Thaxter, David Brian, Paul Kelly, Lon Chaney Jr. directed by: André De Toth  List Price: $19.98 Price: $17.95 You Save: $2.03 (10%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9786303072753 Format: Color, NTSC ISBN: 6303072755 Label: Warner Home Video Manufacturer: Warner Home Video Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Warner Home Video Release Date: July 22, 1994 Running Time: 93 minutes Studio: Warner Home Video Theatrical Release Date: October 25, 1952 Sales Rank: 14478 Related Items:
Editorial Review: Amazon.com: Springfield Rifle is among the quirkiest of 1950s Westerns, provocatively original in mood, plot, and characterization--but also, more or less simultaneously, a bit of a mess. Gary Cooper plays a Southern-born Union officer fighting the Civil War far from conventional battlegrounds. Somewhere out West, a band of jayhawkers is selling cavalry horses to the Yankees, then stealing them to sell again to the Confederates. After losing a herd to the raiders, Cooper is court-martialed as a coward, "copperhead," or both, then thrown into dodgy complicity with the villains responsible for his disgrace. As in his earlier Ramrod, director Andre DeToth envelops a large cast of characters in a miasma of betrayal and ambiguity, and doesn't hesitate to kill off prominent people without warning. Gunsmoke creator Charles Marquis Warren worked on the script, and the pre-Davy Crockett Fess Parker has a droll cameo as a Reb. --Richard T. Jameson Average Rating:
 Rating: - Exciting, Post High-Noon Cooper WesternIt would be nearly impossible for Gary Cooper to follow up his Oscar-winning performance in High Noon with as great as a Western, but Springfield Rifle is more than rousingly entertaining. It is well-written and although it has some lapses in logic, it does have good plotting. Cooper plays a disgraced Union major from Virginia who falls in with Confederate raiders who are stealing Union horses and supplying them to the Confederacy. Little do the raiders know that Cooper's disgrace is ... Read More Rating: - great western spy movie,1st rateA Army Major gets striped of his rank and thrown out of the Army,kicked out of Garrison by his pears and Comerads alike.When the Major clears his name(Garry Cooper)he reviels the rear Croock and brings him to justice.Great western good Actors,good director,they dont make movies like this anymore Browse for similar items by category:
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