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The 2014 remaster, 70mm Grandeur process is simply stunning. Crisp clear detail with excellent depth of field & panorama. One of John Wayne's earliest films. And the sound is pretty good too, like a good audio remastering engineer must have gotten their ears on it. Some nice low-midrange color without being too murky. Totally intelligible. Must've been a painstaking process, but well worth the effort. The 1930 film has lots of the typical characters & scenery, lots of horses & wagons & boots & really big hats LoL.somehow I was totally unaware of this film, despite thinking I had seen everything with Big John. Very enjoyable watching on TCM HD.

Very entertaining, with the most accurate description of the oil business & it's true value I've ever heard. Billy Bob knocks it outa the park with his witty gritty savvy role. Go hang out in Odessa Texas for awhile, and drive around the country, you'll see a thriving energy business with the roughest toughest hardest working guys around. Hamm does a good job of portraying a Midland oil executive with his daughter in expensive TCU and living in first class fashion. Ali Larter also in a pretty accurate roll as a rich demanding oil field wife, where nothing is too good for her indulgent tastes. BBT holds everything together with his west Texas sense of a moral & ethical code of the west, where rules are bent for the greater good, and often the lesser of two evils. Watch the scene in episode 3 where Tommy enumerates exactly why the wind farms & everything else relies on the oil energy business. Mega kudos to Taylor Sheridan for getting this right.