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Decision at Sundown is a 1957 American Western film directed by Budd Boetticher and starring Randolph Scott. It is one of seven Boetticher/Scott western collaborations, including Seven Men from Now, The Tall T, Buchanan Rides Alone, Westbound, Ride Lonesome, and Comanche Station.
Decision at Sundown: Directed by Budd Boetticher. With Randolph Scott, John Carroll, Karen Steele, Valerie French. Bart Allison and sidekick Sam arrive in the town of Sundown on the wedding day of town boss Tate Kimbrough, whom Allison blames for his wife's death years earlier.
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Hell-bent on revenge, flinty gunslinger Bart Allison (Randolph Scott) rides into a sleepy Western town with one goal in mind: to kill local roughneck...
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Decision at Sundown, based on a story by Vernon L. Fluharty, leaves the desert for a town setting, where a bitter Scott arrives to kill the man who ran off with his wife. It's an odd and intriguing little picture and Scott makes one of his most memorable entrances he holds up a coach from the inside, then steps off to let it go its own way but ...
Bart Allison (Randolph Scott) arrives in Sundown after a three year search for Tate Kimbrough (John Carroll). Although it is Kimbrough's wedding day, Allison makes it clear he blames him for the death of his wife and is out to kill him.
All but annihilating the myth of the righteous western hero, Decision at Sundown edges the Ranown films into increasingly dark, despairing territory. Randolph Scott boldly subverts his upstanding image in this stark, often startlingly bleak tale of revenge and a man’s misguided quest for redemption.
