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The Tall T (1957)

Director: Budd Boetticher

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Admirably scripted by Burt Kennedy from a story by Elmore Leonard, this is the best and bleakest of the Boetticher/Scott Westerns. A marvellous mechanism is set in motion by the stagecoach hold-up at the beginning where a solid citizen cravenly bargains for his life by suggesting that his wife be held for ransom. Boone's bluffly amiable villain promptly guns him down in contempt, but fulfils his elective role by taking up the suggestion. Thereafter, conceptions of justice and social justification are slyly questioned as Boone is hounded by Scott, bodies pile up, and the two men, gradually emerging as opposite sides of the same coin, face the inevitable showdown that neither of them wants but which society demands. Wonderful, with a full roster of fine performances.

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Cast & crew

Director: Budd Boetticher

Producer: Harry Joe Brown

Cast: Randolph Scott, Richard Boone, Maureen O'Sullivan, Skip Homeier, Henry Silva, John Hubbard, Arthur Hunnicutt full cast

Genre(s): Westerns

Duration: 77 mins


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