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Post by lostinlimbo on Feb 24, 2024 13:17:08 GMT
  Over the last few weeks, I’ve been watching westerns and few of them were the Budd Boetticher & Randolph Scott features. Comanche Station, Ride Lonesome & Decision at Sundown. They weren’t anything spectacular, but still were really good and compelling westerns. I could see myself re-watching them. It’s hard to put my finger on it, because they look simple at heart, rather lean in length, but the writing seems to have underlining shades, performances are well rounded and Boetticher’s eye for details stand out. Any fans of the pairs’ westerns, or anything to say on the ones I’ve yet to watch. I did try watching ‘The Big T’ on Tubi, but the screen goes green whenever i try to watch it. |
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Post by Richard Kimble on Feb 24, 2024 20:34:36 GMT
RL is great, CS very good. DaS is nothing special.
The RS/BB/Burt Kennedy films are one of the great H'wood collaborations, matched in westerns only by Ford-Wayne & Stewart-Mann.
Four are classics:
7 Men From Now
Tall T
Ride Lonesome
Comanche Station
DaS, Buchanan Rides Alone, & Westbound are routine.
Greek subtitles, but they can be turned off.
At 28:00 is one of my all time favorite dialogue exchanges.
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Post by Old Aussie on Feb 24, 2024 20:37:44 GMT
my ranking/rating -
7 Men from Now 8.5/10
Ride Lonesome (1959) 8
Comanche Station (1960) 8
The Tall T (1957) 8
Buchanan Rides Alone (1958) 7.5
Decision at Sundown (1957) 7
Westbound - not seen
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Post by Jep Gambardella on Feb 29, 2024 14:36:05 GMT
I went crazy the other day when I saw that Criterion had a 50% off sale and bought a number of movies , including their Boetticher/Randolph Scott box set, which contains
The Tall T Decision at Sundown Buchanan Rides Alone Ride Lonesome Comanche Station
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Post by lostinlimbo on Mar 3, 2024 22:53:52 GMT
RL is great, CS very good. DaS is nothing special. The RS/BB/Burt Kennedy films are one of the great H'wood collaborations, matched in westerns only by Ford-Wayne & Stewart-Mann. Four are classics: 7 Men From Now Tall T Ride Lonesome Comanche Station DaS, Buchanan Rides Alone, & Westbound are routine. Greek subtitles, but they can be turned off. At 28:00 is one of my all time favorite dialogue exchanges. Thanks for the link. I gave ‘The Tall T’ a watch last week. Good western, and really liked the support cast. Though i do lean towards the other 3 collaborations. Looks like, I might fancy ‘Decision at Sundown’ a little more than most. ‘7 Men From Now’ is a definite track down. I didn’t realise Burt Kennedy was a collaborator too. |
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Post by lostinlimbo on Mar 3, 2024 22:56:57 GMT
One thing that got me curious. The hanging tree in ‘Ride Lonesome’… was that the same tree again in ‘Comanche Station’? This time the open ground where it stood was flooded by water.
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