Was able to watch a couple more of the westerns on that 2DVD set.

ABILINE TOWN (1946) Is another nice Randolph Scott effort. He plays the town marshall, torn between two women as well as between conflicting elements in the town. It's your standard homesteaders vs. cattlemen confrontations, with the town's most influential citizens pretty happy to let the cattlemen run wild in one section of town, as long as they stay away from the business section. Scott gradually comes to realize that the future of the town would be better served by backing the homesteaders and is able to eventually get the businessmen to see it the same way. Naturally, there is plenty of shootouts, fist fights and stampedes along the way. One of Scott's female admirers is played by Rhonda Fleming, who discovers that young, homesteader Lloyd Bridges, just might be a more stable lifemate than a town marshall. Ann Dvorak, plays saloon singer & co-owner Rita, who gets to perform three songs with the other saloon gals. She's also Scott's other romantic interest and gets her man in the end. If you check out the video box over on The Internet Movie Database you'll see that Scott's name doesn't appear on the box, which features Bridges and Fleming.

VEAGEANCE VALLEY (1951) Only released a few years after the above film, certainly seems much more modern in terms of theme and acting. Burt Lancaster plays the foster son of a rancher who finds himself in conflict with the rancher's actual son, played as a perfect slimeball by Robert Walker. Besides Walker trying to weasal more money and power from his father, he also has been fooling around on the side (and fathering a child of his own) without his wife's knowledge. Add in the love that Burt feels for Walker's bride and you know that things are going to come to an ugly end. Based on a novel by Luke Short, director Richard Thorpe creates a nice little film and gets fine performances from all the cast. Especially, nasty little turn by TV's "Wyatt Earp" Hugh O'Brien as one of a pair of vengeanceful brothers out to take down Lancaster, who, Walker has led to believe is the actual father of their sister's illigetimate child. Again, a nice movie, while not classic, that entertains. Enough action to keep you interested, although I can't see the kids sitting still in the theatre during the long dialogue scenes.