by Travis Mills | Jan 22, 2023 | Uncategorized
Like Howard Hawks did with Rio Bravo, El Dorado, and Rio Lobo, Budd Boetticher and Burt Kennedy recycled elements of The Tall T and Seven Men From Now over and over again. Some viewers take no issue with this. Some even enjoy Ride Lonesome and Comanche...
by Travis Mills | Nov 24, 2022 | Preview
Budd Boetticher sure did like the idea of having Randolph Scott hunt down the man responsible for his wife’s death, a plot point he recycled from Seven Men From Now to Ride Lonesome to this film that fell in between the former two. Trading the traveling...
by Travis Mills | Nov 24, 2022 | Uncategorized
When I went through the Boetticher/Scott collaborations years ago, I felt that Ride Lonesome was inferior to The Tall T and Seven Men From Now. My viewing the other night confirmed that opinion. Hailed by critics and filmmakers like Scorsese, Ride Lonesome does...
by Travis Mills | Nov 14, 2022 | Preview
Gun the Man Down is proof that Burt Kennedy’s scripts were not dependent on director Budd Boetticher to be successful. In the hands of Andrew V. McLaglen (not as consistent of a filmmaker), the power of Kennedy’s storytelling stays strong....
by Travis Mills | Nov 8, 2022 | Uncategorized
The Tall T is the backbone of the Western, the closest any film could come to a definition of the genre and a textbook for any filmmaker wanting to worth within it. Budd Boetticher’s film is also arguably the best Western ever made. It may not match the...
