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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 .
Budd Boetticher. Director: Bullfighter and the Lady. Brilliant, distinguished American director, particularly of Westerns, whose simple, bleak style disguises a complex artistic temperament.
Budd Boetticher. Director: Bullfighter and the Lady. Brilliant, distinguished American director, particularly of Westerns, whose simple, bleak style disguises a complex artistic temperament.
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.
Dec 1, 2001 · Budd Boetticher, who directed a series of stark, low-budget westerns regarded by film scholars as classics of the genre, died on Thursday at his home in Ramona, Calif. He was 85.
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Feb 7, 2006 · 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.
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.
Jul 25, 2023 · In his five collaborations with actor Randolph Scott and producer Harry Joe Brown, Boetticher presents an unsentimental vision of honor-bound men competing and banding together in a desolate landscape ruled by chance.
Sep 23, 2019 · Budd Boetticher certainly did know westerns, producing 14 of them in a career that ran to 31 fiction features and a pair of documentaries across some 40-odd years. His wasn’t the west of John Ford, with its romanticised view of history, or that cruelly psychologised by Anthony Mann.
Dec 2, 2001 · Budd Boetticher, director of a series of celebrated ’50s Westerns starring Randolph Scott, died Nov. 29 at his home in Ramona, Calif., after a battle with cancer. He was 85.
