Gunsmoke: The Second Season, Vol. 2 | 
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Studio: Paramount
Category: DVD
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Rating:  25 reviews
Sales Rank: 5616
Format: Box Set, Color, Dvd-video, Full Screen, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number Of Discs: 3
Running Time: 480 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: PARD853544D
UPC: 097368535442
EAN: 0097368535442
ASIN: B0013LRKVM
Release Date: May 27, 2008
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Dodge City has a bad reputation. It's "the wickedest, cruelest town in Kansas," some Wichita yokel notes in the episode, "Sweet and Sour." "No decent man could stand it more than a day." Marshall Matt Dillon (James Arness) is a decent man, but he's got a reputation, too. Residents know not to mess with him. When he tells one alcohol-fueled miscreant to give up his gun in the episode, "Chester's Murder," the man instantly complies, "Sure, I ain't that drunk." But it's not just his marksmanship that distinguishes Dillon. When a former Army officer shows up in Dodge angling for Dillon's job in "The Man Who Would Be Marshal," Dillon demonstrates his keen grasp of human nature. Rather than arrest a rowdy sodbuster, he allows him to "blow off steam," explaining, "That's his way of reminding himself he's a man." But the psychological toll of the dark and bloody side of Dillon's job is the focus of "Bloody Hands," one of the best episodes in this collection of season-concluding episodes. Dillon kills three bank robbers. It's self-defense, but that doesn't stop the nightmares, and he resigns. It's up to his trusty sidekick, Chester (Dennis Weaver) to appeal to his sense of justice. The bad guys, he pleads, "gotta be stopped, and that's all." And stop 'em Dillon does in his own inimitable style. After punching one man, his friends complain, "You hit him with your fist. We don't like it." Dillon coolly replies, "How do you know? You haven't tried it yet" As another bad man remarks in "Cheap Labor," "That ain't no way for a lawman to talk." Dillon still has a little to learn about women. In "Sweet and Sour," he insists that Miss Kitty (Amanda Blake), who becomes the co-owner of the Longbranch saloon, hire Rena, a pretty newcomer to town. "A pretty face will throw you any time," Kitty cautions. "Her kind spells nothing but trouble." Sure enough, four men are dead after Rena instigates fights over her. Gunsmoke set a new standard for the television western. Dillon is occasionally wrong, innocent people are killed, and not all episodes end with justice served or the expected happy ending. In one episode, a photographer (Sebastian "Mr. French" Cabot) sets up his camera in Dodge City. "It's authenticity I'm after," he insists. In these half-hour black and white episodes, Gunsmoke achieved it. --Donald Liebenson
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Marshal Matt Dillon is responsible for keeping the law and respectability in Dodge City in this western action-drama. Gunsmoke captured the courage, character and spirit of the Western Frontier.
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 Great series bad marketing August 12, 2008
R. Smith (NC)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Gunsmoke is the ultimate Western. Every episode is a classic most of which were written by John Meston.
However, I would strongly encourage everyone to write to Paramount Home Entertainment and complain as to these silly half season releases.
This is the letter I just sent to them:
I am sure that a visit to Amazon.com would convince you that your company's marketing of TV by the half season is greatly unpopular.
As a fan of CBS's Gunsmoke, I lament in the fact that it might take your company 20 to 30 years to release this fine series in increments of half years.
There is a complete logic disconnect when CBS series such as Hawaii 50 are still being released in whole years.
I bought the first complete season of Gunsmoke and I bought your Gunsmoke Season 2 vol. 1 and Gunsmoke Season 2, vol. 2 (and I am buying The Untouchables and Perry Mason in this same silly 1/2 season format). I beg you to reconsider this misguided marketing scheme. It has garnered your company scathing comments at Amazon.com. Don't be petty, please return to selling these programs by the whole season. Also please take into consideration that a 20 year series should be released at some sort of reasonable pace. At 4 seasons per year it would still take CBS/Paramount 5 years to release the series. Sometimes it just makes you wonder who your company has that makes their decisions. I am not complaining about the price. I understand you need to make a profit (we're not socialist). I wish CBS/Paramount would consider that if it released series such as Gunsmoke, Perry Mason and The Untouchables in whole seasons at a faster release pace, you would gain:
1) Better PR with your consumers (at the moment your popularity is about par with Chinese cat food manufacturers);
2) Your company would re-establish its brand on these titles - driving black market products into the shadows where they belong - if it is going to take you 30 years to release Gunsmoke - or if you choose to discontinue the release because of lack of interest (caused by your asinine marketing) - then obviously the black marketer will provide the product the public wants and which you will not or refuse to provide.
Its too bad that men such as William Paley are dead. People with vision would see that short term marketing schemes for a company may not always be the goal of a company that expects to be around for the long term.
These are black and white programs from the 1950's & 60's that are just rotting on your shelf. Release them quickly - make a small profit (not much I admit) and build a better image for your company (you know back in the day when CBS was a proud company producing decent programming under a set of established principals, standards and ethics).
Gunsmoke--Great Show July 21, 2008
Shirley Gilmore (MO United States)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Gunsmoke--even afer 50 years it's a great show to watch. The 30 minute episodes bring back fond memories of Saturday nights in the 1950's, watching my first true love--Chester.
Excellent! July 17, 2008
P. King (richmond, KY)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
While I would prefer the individual seasons be sold as a complete set versus splitting it into sections, I thoroughly enjoyed season 2 vol 2. IMO the stories in the earlier seasons which are in black and white far exceed those in the color episodes in later years (although I enjoy those as well). It's hard to beat a good episode of Gunsmoke!! Keep those seasons coming!!
GUNSMOKE SEASON 2 VOL. 2. July 15, 2008
Nadine Sansone (NEW YORK,USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I AM A HUGE FAN OF THE "GUNSMOKE" TV SERIES, THIS DVD SET IS VOL.2 OF SEASON 2, WHICH ARE EPISODES I HAVE NEVER SEEN. THIS IS DEFINATELY A MUST HAVE FOR ANY FAN OF THE SHOW. CAN'T WAIT FOR SEASON 3!!! NADINE
The Actors Find Their Characters July 9, 2008
Adam Love (USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
The lead actors have all found their characters by the second half of Season 2. They seem to wear their TV personas like comfortable old coats. For those of you who are not familiar with the radio series that gave rise to the TV encarnation, give special attention to the episode entitled "Skid Row". It will give you an idea of the kind of adult approach to the western for which it was famous. It was writing like this that set Gunsmoke apart from all other 50's westerns. I can't wait for the release of Season 3. I wish they would go back to the full season sets. I don't object to the increase in price, just to having the season broken up and the series' release delayed.
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