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Coined by. Alfred Henry Lewis (1905) " Riding shotgun " was a phrase used to describe the bodyguard who rides alongside a stagecoach driver, typically armed with a break-action shotgun, called a coach gun, to ward off bandits or hostile Native Americans. In modern use, it refers to the practice of sitting alongside the driver in a moving vehicle.
Riding Shotgun is a 1954 American western film directed by Andre de Toth and starring Randolph Scott, Wayne Morris and Joan Weldon. The film was based on the short story "Riding Solo" by Kenneth Perkins , originally published in the September 1942 issue of Blue Book .
Riding Shotgun: Directed by André De Toth. With Randolph Scott, Wayne Morris, Joan Weldon, Joe Sawyer. When a stagecoach guard tries to warn a town of an imminent raid by a band of outlaws, the people mistake him for one of the gang
The term was taken up by US teenagers when referring to riding in the front passenger seat of a car. It became a game to shout “I call shotgun” to reserve the front seat – which was generally seen as being the premium position (although, in those pre-seatbelt and air-bag days, probably the worst choice). This was shortened in the 1960s to ...
Riding shotgun is an idiom that means taking on the role of a responsible partner or companion to someone in command. It often refers to the occupant of a vehicle’s front passenger seat who may assist the driver as a navigator. Idioms like riding shotgun are phrases with figurative meanings diverging from their literal interpretations.
Synopsis. In the 1800s, Larry Delong wanders the West "riding shotgun" as a stagecoach guard, while searching for a ruthless killer, Dan Marady. Delong is so intent on his mission to find and kill Marady that he is lured from his post into a trap by an old-timer bearing Marady's good-luck piece, a Berringer pocket gun.
Riding Shotgun falls roughly in the middle of the 36 westerns he made between 1948 and his last, Ride the High Country (1962). Scott's best westerns are usually considered to be the eight he made with Budd Boetticher, and he also had six hits in the genre with Ray Enright.
