This fine, haunting western was the last of the Randolph Scott-Budd Boetticher collaborations. Its predecessors were SEVEN MEN FROM NOW (1956), THE TALL T. (1957), DECISION AT SUNDOWN (1957), BUCHANAN RIDES ALONE (1958), RIDE LONESOME (1959), and WESTBOUND (1959). Together they encapsulate
themes that made these films some of the most striking, intelligent, and complex westerns ever made. Boetticher, an often-underrated talent, created films that dealt with the sadness of independence, the questing impulse, the overpowering forces of nature, and the past's influence on the present.
Interrupting a futile ten-year search for his own wife, who was kidnaped by ...
Released:
1960
Rated:
NR
Length:
74 mins