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Oscar Boetticher Jr. (/ ˈ b ɛ t ɪ k ər / BET-i-kər; July 29, 1916 – November 29, 2001), known as Budd Boetticher, was an American film director. He is best remembered for a series of low-budget Westerns he made in the late 1950s starring Randolph Scott.
The five briskly entertaining, vividly performed westerns made by director Budd Boetticher and strapping star Randolph Scott in the second half of the 1950s transcend their B-movie origins to become rich, unexpectedly profound explorations of loyalty, greed, honor, and revenge.
Budd Boetticher. Director: Bullfighter and the Lady. Brilliant, distinguished American director, particularly of Westerns, whose simple, bleak style disguises a complex artistic temperament.
Top Ten Budd Boetticher Films. by milam_ogden • Created 11 years ago • Modified 11 years ago. Budd is one of my favorite western directors. This was not the only genre that he mastered. He also directed several film noir classics. These are my favorite westerns directed by Boetticher. List activity. 2.5Kviews. • 5 this week. Create a new list.
Oct 2, 2023 · Budd Boetticher’s Ranown Westerns. A desperate yearning for belonging is central to Boetticher’s subtle and serpentine westerns. by Carson Lund. October 2, 2023. In the opening scene of the 1957 western The Tall T, a man on horseback is spotted from afar by a boy and his father, prompting the elder homesteader to fetch his rifle.
Jul 25, 2023 · T he five westerns that Budd Boetticher made at Columbia Pictures at the height of his career all open the same way: actor Randolph Scott rides through a western landscape. In some films, he enters a town that emerges from the rough terrain; in others, he rides through a rocky passage or along dusty trails; in all of them, high mountains loom ...
Aug 6, 2021 · Post-Ranown, Boetticher made a terrific gangster movie, The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond (1960); an execrable low-budget western called A Time for Dying (1969); and—his dream project—a bullfighting documentary, Arruza (1972). Westerns, of course, were never the same, because they couldn’t be.
Buchanan Rides Alone is a 1958 American Western film directed by Budd Boetticher and starring Randolph Scott, Craig Stevens, and Barry Kelley. Based on the 1956 novel The Name's Buchanan by Jonas Ward, the film is about a Texan returning home with enough money to start his own ranch.
Jul 20, 2023 · Taylor Hackford’s 1971 documentary “Budd Boetticher: A Study in Self-Determination” (60 min) is a rather dry, almost monologue by Boetticher telling various anecdotes from his career and, at one point, stepping into a bullfighting ring and demonstrating a few of the moves he learned once upon a time in Mexico.
All that and more is packed into “The Ranown Westerns,” a collection just out from Criterion of five films made in the 1950s directed by Budd Boetticher and starring that lanky, laconic fixture...
