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Jul 19, 2023 · The Criterion Collection’s latest box set, The Ranown Westerns, presents five films from Budd Boetticher and starring Randolph Scott: The Tall T, Decision at Sundown, Buchanan Rides Alone (all three shown in the aspect ratio of 1.85:1), Ride Lonesome, and Comanche Station (both in the ratio of 2.39:1). The films are delivered in 4K 2160p/24hz ...
Jun 22, 2017 · June 2017. Revisiting Budd Boetticher. Issue 83. Oscar “Budd” Boetticher was truly one of a kind, as both a film director and a man. He was a boxer and a bullfighter (becoming only the third white matador in history) before embarking upon a prosperous Hollywood career. In 1931, he landed a gig as horse trainer on Lewis Milestone’s Of Mice ...
Dec 3, 2001 · Budd Boetticher, who has died of multiple organ failure aged 85, was a maverick. His love of film-making was matched only by his love of action, notably as a matador and horseman.
Nov 29, 2001 · Oscar "Budd" Boetticher, Jr. (July 29, 1916 in Chicago – November 29, 2001 in Ramona, California) was a film director during the classical period in Hollywood most famous for the series of low-budget Westerns he made in the late 1950s starring Randolph Scott.
Dec 1, 2001 · Budd Boetticher, a maverick Hollywood director whose Westerns starring Randolph Scott in the 1950s are considered classics of the genre, has died. He was 85. The Chicago-born Boetticher, a onetime ...
Feb 7, 2006 · Issue 38. Issue 83. Budd Boetticher stumbled into the movies in the fluky way so many of Hollywood’s two-fisted directors of the silent days landed in the director’s chair, but with a high society twist only Hollywood could have written. The 20-year-old kid from a wealthy family decided he wanted to learn how to bullfight and wound up ...
Nov 29, 2001 · Biography. Read More. The career of Budd Boetticher is one of the most interesting ever confined to B pictures. A collegiate athlete at Ohio State University, he traveled to Mexico in the mid-1930s, becoming so enamored with bullfighting that he eventually wielded the cape as a professional matador. Boetticher's experience in the bull ring led ...
