What is Ride Lonesome / The Tall T / Comanche Station about?

RIDE LONESOME, 1959, Sony Repertory, 73 min. Dir. Budd Boetticher. A poetic revenge tragedy starring Randolph Scott as a sheriff-turned bounty hunter, using a young outlaw (James Best) to flush out his murderous brother (Lee Van Cleef). Andrew Sarris described Budd’s westerns as “constructed partly as allegorical odysseys and partly as floating poker games.” THE TALL T, 1957, Sony Repertory, 78 min. Dir. Budd Boetticher. Tense story of rancher Randolph Scott kidnapped by killer Richard Boone and his gun-happy henchmen. Switches effortlessly from folksy humor to tragic violence. With Henry Silva, Maureen O’Sullivan. COMANCHE STATION, 1960, Sony Repertory, 74 min. Dir. Budd Boetticher. In the last of the Ranown westerns, Randolph Scott buys a white woman (Nancy Gate

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What is Ride Lonesome / The Tall T / Comanche Station about?: RIDE LONESOME, 1959, Sony Repertory, 73 min. Dir. Budd Boetticher. A poetic revenge tragedy starring Randolph Scott as a sheriff-turned bounty hunter, using a young outlaw (James Best) to flush out his murderous brother (Lee Van Cleef). Andrew Sarris described Budd’s westerns as “constructed partly as allegorical odysseys and partly as floating poker games.”

THE TALL T, 1957, Sony Repertory, 78 min. Dir. Budd Boetticher. Tense story of rancher Randolph Scott kidnapped by killer Richard Boone and his gun-happy henchmen. Switches effortlessly from folksy humor to tragic violence. With Henry Silva, Maureen O’Sullivan.

COMANCHE STATION, 1960, Sony Repertory, 74 min. Dir. Budd Boetticher. In the last of the Ranown westerns, Randolph Scott buys a white woman (Nancy Gate