A Time For Dying Blu-Ray

A Time for Dying is the last western film from one of the genre's greatest directors, Budd Boetticher (Ride Lonesome), and the last film starring war hero and movie star Audie Murphy (To Hell and Back). The film is an unusual, elegiac look at the old West and precedes Don Siegel's classic western and John Wayne's last film, The Shootist.

Richard Lapp plays the lead role as a young man with good shooting skills who meets real people, such as Jesse James (played by Murphy) and Judge Roy Bean (Victor Jory), only to discover the real violence of the West.

A Time for Dying has suffered from post-production and distribution problems and is delayed in receiving the recognition it deserves.

Extras "INDICATOR STANDARD EDITION SPECIAL FEATURES

New restoration from a 2K scan of the original negative by Powerhouse Films

Two presentations of the film: in the original theatrical aspect ratio of 1.85:1 and in the aspect ratio of 1.37:1 with open matte

Original mono audio

Audio commentary with screenwriter and novelist C Courtney Joyner and film historian Henry Parke (2022)

A Sense of Poetry (2022, 14 min): filmmaker and novelist Christopher Petit discusses his fascination with A Time for Dying and why he selected it for Sight & Sound's Greatest Films of All Time

The Man Who Shot Jesse James (2022, 20 min): Kim Newman, critic and author of Wild West Movies, explores the many film portrayals of the notorious outlaw Jesse James.p>

New and improved subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing