Buchanan Rides Alone (1958)
Country: US
Technical: col 78m
Director: Budd Boetticher
Cast: Randolph Scott, Craig Stevens, Manuel Rojas, L. Q. Jones
Synopsis:
A gunman rides north into a Californian border town that is corruptly sewn up between three brothers. When he takes the part of an outraged Mexican on an honour mission, his money is stolen and he is almost hanged for complicity in murder, but a fellow West Texan saves him from extremity.
Review:
Typically brisk and deceptively light, the fourth in the Ranown cycle of (in this case Columbia) Westerns is a pessimistic vision of political corruption and casual xenophobia. The ease with which the Scott character gets into, and out of, scrapes sits uneasily with a more serious reading, however, and much of this is true in spirit to the B Western format. As usual, we have a not-quite villain who is a flipside of the hero, but unusually there is no love interest, not even in his past.
Country: US
Technical: col 78m
Director: Budd Boetticher
Cast: Randolph Scott, Craig Stevens, Manuel Rojas, L. Q. Jones
Synopsis:
A gunman rides north into a Californian border town that is corruptly sewn up between three brothers. When he takes the part of an outraged Mexican on an honour mission, his money is stolen and he is almost hanged for complicity in murder, but a fellow West Texan saves him from extremity.
Review:
Typically brisk and deceptively light, the fourth in the Ranown cycle of (in this case Columbia) Westerns is a pessimistic vision of political corruption and casual xenophobia. The ease with which the Scott character gets into, and out of, scrapes sits uneasily with a more serious reading, however, and much of this is true in spirit to the B Western format. As usual, we have a not-quite villain who is a flipside of the hero, but unusually there is no love interest, not even in his past.
Country: US
Technical: col 78m
Director: Budd Boetticher
Cast: Randolph Scott, Craig Stevens, Manuel Rojas, L. Q. Jones
Synopsis:
A gunman rides north into a Californian border town that is corruptly sewn up between three brothers. When he takes the part of an outraged Mexican on an honour mission, his money is stolen and he is almost hanged for complicity in murder, but a fellow West Texan saves him from extremity.
Review:
Typically brisk and deceptively light, the fourth in the Ranown cycle of (in this case Columbia) Westerns is a pessimistic vision of political corruption and casual xenophobia. The ease with which the Scott character gets into, and out of, scrapes sits uneasily with a more serious reading, however, and much of this is true in spirit to the B Western format. As usual, we have a not-quite villain who is a flipside of the hero, but unusually there is no love interest, not even in his past.