Biography: Budd Boetticher |
A college athlete, Oscar Boetticher Jr. became a matador in Mexico in the mid 1930s. He entered the Hollywood film industry as a technical advisor on the 1941 version of Blood and Sand and then became an assistant director. Boetticher made his... more
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Tags: Western Revisionist Western
Length: 67min
This unique western centers on an innocent farm boy with a talent for handling guns who decides to make it big. He begins as a bounty hunter. Later he encounters a crazed gunslinger and ends up fatally shot. Before the fateful encounter, the young man...
Combat Camera: The Pacific (2001)
Tags: History Military & War Politics & Government
Length: 120min
Imagine a group of soldiers trained in search and rescue, desert survival, and deployment into hostile areas, only instead of carrying weapons, they carry cameras. Combat Camera -- The Pacific uncovers the unique operation in which photographers...
Cast: Anthony Quinn
Tags: Biography History Sports & Recreation Sports
Length: 73min
The lives of bullfighters, whether in Mexico or in Spain or elsewhere in Latin America, carry a weight of romance and tragedy not found in other lives, even when they die of old age in their beds. All too often, they are maimed or killed in the ring....
Tags: Western Traditional Western
Length: 73min
This is one of several solid B-grade Westerns produced at the height of the genre's popularity in the '50s by the partnership of director Budd Boetticher, star Randolph Scott, and writer Burt Kennedy. Scott stars as Ben Brigade, a taciturn bounty...
Cast: Randolph Scott Virginia Mayo
Tags: Action Western Traditional Western
Length: 72min
A fast-paced western with a romantic twist, this was one of the last films pairing director Budd Boetticher and popular cowboy hero Randolph Scott before Scott's retirement. John Hayes (Scott) left the Civil War behind him when he took on the job of...
Tags: Outlaw (Gunfighter) Film Western Drama Action
Length: 74min
The last of the Randolph Scott/ Budd Boetticher collaborations, Comanche Station stars Scott as another "lone rider" who takes on a highly dangerous job. Scott must rescue Nancy Gates from her Comanche captors and return the woman to her husband. He...
Cast: Richard Boone Maureen O'Sullivan
Length: 77min
Perhaps the grittiest and grimmest of the Randolph Scott-Budd Boetticher collaborations, The Tall T was adapted by Burt Kennedy from the Elmore Leonard short story -The Captive. Scott plays a former ranch foreman who, along with newlyweds Maureen...
The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond (1960)
Cast: Jesse White Simon Oakland
Tags: Crime Action Biopic Crime Drama Docudrama
Length: 101min
This effective gangster film on the notorious New York mobster Jack "Legs" Diamond is interspersed with moments of comic relief and was released just a few months after The Purple Gang shot their way across the silver screens in the U.S. Ironically,...
Tags: Action Western Psychological Western
Length: 89min
Buchanan (Randolph Scott) rides alone through Texas, en route to his future home of Mexico. He is sidetracked during a stopover in a lawless border town, where Mexican youth Juan (Manuel Rojas) sits in jail, awaiting trial for the killing of the local...
Cast: Budd Boetticher
Tags: Action Western Psychological Western
Length: 77min
Decision at Sundown was one of several felicitous collaborations between star Randolph Scott and director Budd Boetticher. Scott plays a flint-eyed gunman who rides into a sleepy town to drive out local tough guy John Carroll by sundown. Scott is...
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