Stephen Vincent Benét
4) Western star
Author
Publisher
Farrar & Rinehart
Pub. Date
1943
Physical Desc
viii, 181 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
This is the first part of an American epic left unfinished at Benet's untimely death, about the western migration of peoples and more specifically the pioneers, first as they came to America and then as they spread out through America towards the West.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2000
Edition
"Letterbox" widescreen format.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (1 hr., 42 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When the new bride of a roughneck Oregon pioneer finds she has to keep house for her husband's six rowdy brothers, she decides to groom them so that they can find brides of their own.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Edition
Widescreen two-disc special ed.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 102 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Adam, the eldest of seven brothers, goes to town to get a wife. He convinces Milly to marry him that same day. They return to his backwoods home. Only then does Milly discover that Adam has six other brothers all living with him in his cabin. Milly sets out to reform the uncouth siblings, who are anxious to get wives of their own. Then, after reading a story, Adam develops an idea that will create the solution to his brothers' loneliness - kidnap...
Series
Criterion collection volume 214
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (106 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Having promised his soul to the Devil in exchange for good fortune, Jabez Stone asks the talented lawyer Daniel Webster to get him out of the bargain.
