Post by teleadm on Feb 3, 2023 23:51:58 GMT
Ride the High Country 1962 Randolph Scott and Joel McCrea. Story has it that MGM was in panic of what to send to the Cannes film festival, so since they had no big production finished they sent this movie in panic. Turned out to be a both critical and public success in Europe. This was the last time anyone did see Randolph Scott, after this he retired for good.
Randolph Scott (1898-1987)
This year we celebrate his birth date 125 years ago in Orange County Virginia.
A pretty face that became weather bitten and leatherly as years went by.
He acted in many genres before becoming a western star, in comedies, westerns and adventure movies. through A and B movies.
By the 1950's he was payed 100.000 dollars per movie, and was a box-office attraction during most of the 1950's. But there was a long road before that in adventure, action, comedy, and even musical movies.
Hot Saturday 1932 with Nancy Carroll and Cary Grant
Finding a clue in Murders at the Zoo 1932
With Irene Dunne in Roberta 1935
In RKO once-big budget She 1935.
Go West Young Man 1936 thrilling Mae West
Hide Wide and Handsome 1937 with Irene Dunne and guess who was High, Wide and Handsome!
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm 1938, he did that too
Jesse James 1939 as Marshall Will Wright
My Favorite Wife 1940 with Cary Grant and Irene Dunne as the perfect speciment while she was away.
The Spoilers 1942 with Marlene Dietrich and John Wayne,
Pittsburgh 1942 with Marlene Dietrich and John Wayne. In Spoilers Scott was the bad guy, in a role reversal Wayne did the bad guy here.
with Dolores Moran and Douglas Dumbrill in Christmas Eve 1947 Scott's last movie in contemporary clothes, from then on it was westerns.
Man in the Saddle 1952 with Joan Leslie
Along the way he got some good leading ladies like Angela Lansbury in A Lawless Street 1955
The game changer, Seven Men from Now 1956, directed by Budd Boetticher, the start of a short but creative collaboration, though this was produced by John Wayne's Batjac.
Comanche Station 1960 ended the collaboration with director Budd Boetticher. Scott decided to retire but couldn't resist one more with fellow cowboy star Joel McCrea of fifties in 1962 that's already been mentioned. After that he more or less became a recluse until the day he passed away.
His friendship and maybe more with Cary Grant has been discussed under other threads. OP thought if more let it be, it's a private matter.
Many movies has been left out or this thread had been too long.
Published in 2004, but there is at least 5 other publications.
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