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Yet during that discussion of Ride Lonesome linked above, Scorsese (whom I trust above all) claims he heard that screenwriter Burt Kennedy was heavily inspired by Cyril Tourneur’s satirical play (although many attribute authorship to Thomas Middleton these days).
A bounty hunter (Randolph Scott) escorts a killer (James Best) to be tried for murder, but allows the man's outlaw brother (Lee Van Cleef) to catch up with them to have a showdown over a previous shocking murder. Director. Budd Boetticher. Writer. Burt Kennedy. Stars. Randolph Scott. Karen Steele. Pernell Roberts. See production info at IMDbPro.
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- Western
- Budd Boetticher
- 1959-02-15
Ride Lonesome. Mysterious motivations drive taciturn bounty hunter Ben Brigade (Randolph Scott) to capture a wanted murderer—but his quest is complicated when he is accosted by a pair of outlaws who have their own inscrutable reasons for riding along. Masterfully scripted by Burt Kennedy, who weaves a complex web of ambiguous loyalties and ...
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This Eastmancolor film is one of Boetticher's so-called "Ranown cycle" of westerns, made with Randolph Scott, executive producer Harry Joe Brown and screenwriter Burt Kennedy, beginning with Seven Men from Now. [2] [3] Plot. Bounty hunter Ben Brigade catches up with Billy John, who is wanted for murder.
Kennedy was put under contract by Warner Bros., for whom he wrote Fort Dobbs (1958) and Yellowstone Kelly (1959). He wrote two other scripts, including an adaptation of A Distant Trumpet that was not used. Then for Boetticher and Scott again, he wrote Ride Lonesome (1959) and Comanche Station (1960). He did some uncredited work on The Alamo (1960).
Mar 26, 2021 · Kennedy was an affable man, and very good at working with big-ego alpha-male directors, and as Kirk Ellis said in his book on Ride Lonesome, “Equanimity was a good quality to possess areound a personality as strong-willed as Boetticher.” Kennedy himself had a favorite maxim, “There’s a fine line between mellowing and not giving a shit.”
Burt Kennedy. Writer. On the way to pick up the bounty on a wanted murderer, a bounty hunter stops at a staging post where he is forced to continue his journey with two outlaws who want the murderer for their own reasons and a recently-widowed woman, with the murderer's brother and his men in hot pursuit.
