John Ford’s Rio Grande is one of the greatest of all Westerns, one of the greatest of all American movies. The new Blu-ray edition of it from Olive Films belongs in every home.

For some thoughts on the film, so simple on its surface, so complex underneath its surface, click here.

No civilized home should be without this stunning Blu-ray edition of The Seachers and the means to play it on a large-screen television. It’s as close as you will probably ever get, these days, to seeing a pristine Technicolor print projected in a theater — which is to say as close as you will probably ever get to one of the greatest works of art created in America and one of the greatest performances (by Wayne) ever committed to film.