邦題『旋風地獄谷』
19世紀末のアメリカ西部。モンタナ・ラーキン(バック・ジョーンズ)と相棒のジングルボブ・モーガン(フランク・マクギリン)は、入植競争に参加するために新天地へとやって来る。ふたりには、金鉱のある場所が記された秘密の地図があり、その金鉱のある土地の権利を取得しようとしていた。近くの牧場主ジム・パーカー(ウィリアム・デズモンド)と知り合ったモンタナは、彼の娘メアリー(ミュリエル・エヴァンズ)から思いを寄せられる。そんなある日、パーカーの牧場で働いているギル・ギレスピー(ウォルター・ミラー)は、ジングルボブが、秘密の地図を持っていることを知り、仲間と一緒に奪い取ろうとする…。
カウボーイ・スター、バック・ジョーンズ主演のユニバーサル製の全15話の連続活劇。ユニバーサル時代に、ジョーンズが主演した連続活劇5本のうち、2本目に当たる西部劇だ。
ジョーンズの映画界のキャリアとしては、大まかに、フォックス時代、コロンビア時代、ユニバーサル時代、モノグラム時代に分けられるが、ユニバーサル時代は、40代半ばという、俳優としても、一人の男としても円熟していた時期ということで、ジョーンズの安定した魅力が感じられる作品だ。愛馬シルバーに乗って、颯爽と荒野を駆けるジョーンズの姿は凛と美しく、絵になる。
話自体は、金鉱のありかを示した地図を巡り、主人公モンタナとギレスピー一味との攻防を描いた、平均的な(さらに言ってしまえば、ちょっと単調ですらある)西部劇だが、それでも、連続活劇の定型に則り、各話の最後でモンタナが絶体絶命に陥ると(馬車ごと崖から転落、牛のスタンピード、火事、洪水、闇討ち、カヌーごと滝から転落…など)、思わず次の話数に期待してしまうという具合で、終始楽しく観られる。
本Blu-rayは、全15話を2枚のディスクに収めたもの。初パッケージ化となる。
ディスク構成は下記の通り。
【Disc1】:
・第1話”The Land Rush”
・第2話”Torrent of Terror”
・第3話”Flaming Peril”
・第4話”Stampede of Death”
・第5話”Danger in the Dark”
・第6話”Death Rides the Plains”
・第7話”Hurled to the Depths”
・第8話”Ravaging Flames”
・第9話”Death Holds the Reins”
【Disc2】:
・第10話”The Fatal Blast”
・第11話”The Baited Trap”
・第12話”The Mystery Shot”
・第13話”Flaming Torrents”
・第14話”Thundering Fury”
・第15話”The Conquering Cowpokes”
本Blu-rayは、パブリック・ドメイン作品(連続活劇も多く含まれる)を良質の35mm素材からテレシネ、レストアして発売することで定評のある米VCIのもの。本盤は、米ユニバーサル所蔵の状態の良い35mm素材から2Kフィルム・スキャン、レストアされたマスターを使っているだけあり、パラ、キズ、巻替わりのポイント・マークが残り、あまりフィルム粒子が残っていない平板さはあるものの、白黒諧調、ディテール表現ともに良好な画質。英語字幕も収録。
リニアPCM モノラル音声も、平板ではあるが、大きな問題はない。
特典には、以下のものが収録。
●脚本家/作家C・コートニー・ジョイナーによる解説(7分50秒)
●フォト・ギャラリー(4分39分)
●予告(2分58秒)
本Blu-rayは、北米盤ながら、リージョンA、B、C仕様なので、日本製のプレーヤーで問題なく視聴可能だ。
ジョーンズのファン、連続活劇のファンには嬉しい一枚だ。
The Roaring West [Blu-ray]
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Stanley Kohl;
5つ星のうち5.0
5-star transfer, serial worth it for Buck Jones
2019年11月3日にアメリカ合衆国でレビュー済みAmazonで購入
This review is of VCI's DVD edition on two discs, which I had "pre-ordered" before the Blu-ray edition was announced. The Blu-ray may be preferable on a really large-screen TV, but the DVD gives excellent results, works well with a Standard-Definition display and, of course, was available several months sooner.
"The Roaring West," directed by Ray Taylor and released in 1935, was Buck Jones' third serial, not the second as VCI's DVD liner notes state. By this point the formula was getting more than a little tired, and some of the later chapters look like they were made faster than the script writers could come up with coherent ideas. It would be almost painful to watch without a day or more between chapters, but viewed in isolated 20-minute segments its virtues are far more apparent.
The plot is hardly enough for more than a couple chapters, though that's not unusual in serials. Montana Larkin (Buck Jones) and his buddy Jinglebob Morgan (Frank McGlynn, Sr.) have a map from Jinglebob's brother Clem (Harlan Knight) showing where Clem had found gold, on land about to be opened for settlement. They go to work for rancher Jim Parker (William Desmond) and get involved in the land rush, but the ranch foreman, Gil Gillespie (Walter Miller) manages to obtain a copy of Jinglebob's map, and with the usual band of bad guys (Slim Whitaker, Charles King, Tom London, Harry Tenbrook) stakes claim to the location, breaking with his boss. But these gold deposits aren't always that well located, so there's a lot more chasing and sub-plots and padding before it all gets resolved in Chapter Fifteen. And of course there's Jim Parker's daughter, Mary (Muriel Evans) who, despite being thrown from her horse, or nearly trampled by stampeding cattle manages to look like she just came out of the beauty parlour. Well, suspension of disbelief has its uses.
If the plot is weak and fist fights are not plentiful, nor well staged, the serial is still of interest. The riding and chase sequences are fine, Buck Jones and his nemesis, Walter Miller are still in good form, and the stock-footage filler, while extensive, avoids Universal's library of silent-film Indian attacks. And there are the nicely low-key comic touches seen in Buck Jones' films, never getting in the way of the story.
The transfer is excellent, with good gray scale and the image is sharp, easily showing the difference between newly filmed and stock footage, such as the timber operations in Chapter Thirteen. Framing is good, the picture doesn't seem to be cropped and while there are a couple of the chapter recaps where the text gets close to the bottom of the screen, there is always some space around it. The sound is fine, with wide frequency response for 1935 and little noise, without any "noise reduction" artifacts. There is a little distortion in the opening title music of some chapters, but the dialogue is clear, and for those whose hearing is not, English subtitles can be selected through the menu or with the "subtitles" function usually found on the player's remote control. Five "chapter marks" are provided in each serial chapter on the DVD, though none are present at the chapter titles. But unlike VCI's DVD of "The Red Rider" the last one is far enough from the end to be useful in scanning back to view the cliffhanger.
In addition to the serial itself, the headers are all present, with the MPPDA certificate numbers, and a piece of history. The earlier chapters have the "NRA Member" title, this being FDR's National Recovery Administration, which was ruled unconstitutional in April of 1935. Titles with the NRA logo vanish starting with Chapter Eleven.
There are three "Extras," the most directly related to the serial being the original trailer, not from an especially good copy but complete, running almost three minutes.
The "Photo and Poster Gallery" has 34 images, including several items from material sent to exhibitors to promote the serial, some with different parts of the same page, though the small print isn't readable, at least not in the DVD edition. There are even a couple Buck Jones comic book covers from DELL, these issued in the early 1950s.
A short feature, "Buck Jones Tames the Roaring West," by Daniel Griffith, runs about eight minutes and is narrated by screenwriter/author C. Courtney Joyner. While there are a few obvious errors, such as the claim that Universal produced the silent-era "Perils of Pauline," the background information on Buck Jones is useful, if not much is actually mentioned about the serial.
For the serial and the trailer the DVD gives a full-screen display on a 4 X 3 standard-definition TV, while 16 X 9 sets ("Wide Screen" or "Short Screen," depending on your point of view) should be set to give a "pillar box" image to avoid fat people and horses. The other two "extra" features are formatted for a 16 X 9 screen, so the film clips and pictures in them are shrunken on a 4 X 3 display, but this is not of great importance.
While some consider this the weakest of Buck Jones' early Universal serials, its main faults are with lack of sufficient plot to fill fifteen chapters, and falling back on the formula used for the previous two. It even recycles "Sicomoro," the town name used in "The Red Rider." But by leaving a day or more between the chapters, it maintains interest better than many of Universal's later western serials. The print source is excellent, and for fans of Buck Jones and serials, this is a very welcome release.
"The Roaring West," directed by Ray Taylor and released in 1935, was Buck Jones' third serial, not the second as VCI's DVD liner notes state. By this point the formula was getting more than a little tired, and some of the later chapters look like they were made faster than the script writers could come up with coherent ideas. It would be almost painful to watch without a day or more between chapters, but viewed in isolated 20-minute segments its virtues are far more apparent.
The plot is hardly enough for more than a couple chapters, though that's not unusual in serials. Montana Larkin (Buck Jones) and his buddy Jinglebob Morgan (Frank McGlynn, Sr.) have a map from Jinglebob's brother Clem (Harlan Knight) showing where Clem had found gold, on land about to be opened for settlement. They go to work for rancher Jim Parker (William Desmond) and get involved in the land rush, but the ranch foreman, Gil Gillespie (Walter Miller) manages to obtain a copy of Jinglebob's map, and with the usual band of bad guys (Slim Whitaker, Charles King, Tom London, Harry Tenbrook) stakes claim to the location, breaking with his boss. But these gold deposits aren't always that well located, so there's a lot more chasing and sub-plots and padding before it all gets resolved in Chapter Fifteen. And of course there's Jim Parker's daughter, Mary (Muriel Evans) who, despite being thrown from her horse, or nearly trampled by stampeding cattle manages to look like she just came out of the beauty parlour. Well, suspension of disbelief has its uses.
If the plot is weak and fist fights are not plentiful, nor well staged, the serial is still of interest. The riding and chase sequences are fine, Buck Jones and his nemesis, Walter Miller are still in good form, and the stock-footage filler, while extensive, avoids Universal's library of silent-film Indian attacks. And there are the nicely low-key comic touches seen in Buck Jones' films, never getting in the way of the story.
The transfer is excellent, with good gray scale and the image is sharp, easily showing the difference between newly filmed and stock footage, such as the timber operations in Chapter Thirteen. Framing is good, the picture doesn't seem to be cropped and while there are a couple of the chapter recaps where the text gets close to the bottom of the screen, there is always some space around it. The sound is fine, with wide frequency response for 1935 and little noise, without any "noise reduction" artifacts. There is a little distortion in the opening title music of some chapters, but the dialogue is clear, and for those whose hearing is not, English subtitles can be selected through the menu or with the "subtitles" function usually found on the player's remote control. Five "chapter marks" are provided in each serial chapter on the DVD, though none are present at the chapter titles. But unlike VCI's DVD of "The Red Rider" the last one is far enough from the end to be useful in scanning back to view the cliffhanger.
In addition to the serial itself, the headers are all present, with the MPPDA certificate numbers, and a piece of history. The earlier chapters have the "NRA Member" title, this being FDR's National Recovery Administration, which was ruled unconstitutional in April of 1935. Titles with the NRA logo vanish starting with Chapter Eleven.
There are three "Extras," the most directly related to the serial being the original trailer, not from an especially good copy but complete, running almost three minutes.
The "Photo and Poster Gallery" has 34 images, including several items from material sent to exhibitors to promote the serial, some with different parts of the same page, though the small print isn't readable, at least not in the DVD edition. There are even a couple Buck Jones comic book covers from DELL, these issued in the early 1950s.
A short feature, "Buck Jones Tames the Roaring West," by Daniel Griffith, runs about eight minutes and is narrated by screenwriter/author C. Courtney Joyner. While there are a few obvious errors, such as the claim that Universal produced the silent-era "Perils of Pauline," the background information on Buck Jones is useful, if not much is actually mentioned about the serial.
For the serial and the trailer the DVD gives a full-screen display on a 4 X 3 standard-definition TV, while 16 X 9 sets ("Wide Screen" or "Short Screen," depending on your point of view) should be set to give a "pillar box" image to avoid fat people and horses. The other two "extra" features are formatted for a 16 X 9 screen, so the film clips and pictures in them are shrunken on a 4 X 3 display, but this is not of great importance.
While some consider this the weakest of Buck Jones' early Universal serials, its main faults are with lack of sufficient plot to fill fifteen chapters, and falling back on the formula used for the previous two. It even recycles "Sicomoro," the town name used in "The Red Rider." But by leaving a day or more between the chapters, it maintains interest better than many of Universal's later western serials. The print source is excellent, and for fans of Buck Jones and serials, this is a very welcome release.

Michael Johnson
5つ星のうち5.0
Buck Jones
2019年8月9日にカナダでレビュー済みAmazonで購入
An excellent 35mm transfer..Clear and sharp. If you are a Buck Jones fan you won't be disappointed.

Thbrookes
5つ星のうち5.0
Roaring West
2020年9月10日に英国でレビュー済みAmazonで購入
I fully recommend this ,it moves on very well from the start to the finish

LEONARD J. KOHL
5つ星のうち4.0
A time machine to the 1930s Saturday Matinees!
2020年7月11日にアメリカ合衆国でレビュー済みAmazonで購入
Some of Buck Jones' Universal Westerns at 15 chapters really, really stretch out the story, but this was common practice for a lot of serial-makers back then. Watch a couple of chapters a day - but no more than that! That's my recommendation! Muriel Evans plays a pretty tough young woman here - not the typical "damsel in distress" - and she's a great match for Buck Jones here! John Wayne often said that years earlier he had admired Buck Jones and you can kind of see that earnestness and honesty in some of the Duke's performances. Really great quality from VCI!

Martin Grams, Jr.
5つ星のうち5.0
Thank You VCI
2021年7月18日にアメリカ合衆国でレビュー済みAmazonで購入
VCI Entertainment struck a deal with Universal Studios to release the cliffhanger serials that we all wished were remastered, restored and released on DVD and BluRay. VCI should be commended because each of these releases are upgrades from what we collectors and fans of cliffhanger serials have had from prior releases. Truly, they do not get any better. I, for one, will continue to buy them every few months when the next release is made available. I like the fact that they numbered them on the spine to ensure we do not miss any in the series. Keep up the good work!