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Buchanan Rides Alone

Play trailer Poster for Buchanan Rides Alone Released Aug 6, 1958 1h 18m Western Play Trailer Watchlist
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Journeying from Mexico back home to West Texas, mercenary Tom Buchanan (Randolph Scott) takes a break for the night in the border town of Agry. He soon discovers that almost every resident -- from the crooked sheriff (Barry Kelley) to the shifty-eyed innkeeper -- is a member of the prominent Agry family. When Buchanan defends Juan de la Vega (Manuel Rojas), a young man about to be lynched for shooting the town drunk, he himself is accused of murder and must struggle to escape town alive.
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Michael J. Casey Michael J. Cinema Scott is great, but it's the supporting cast is what makes the movie. Kind of ironic when you think about it that "Buchanan Rides Alone" should be accompanied by so many names. Rated: 4/5 Oct 25, 2023 Full Review Michael Barrett PopMatters ...that makes sense in light of darkly humorous moments like Pecos’ eulogy for the man he shot. Those have the Kennedy touch... Sep 13, 2023 Full Review Matt Brunson Film Frenzy This one’s a lot of fun. Rated: 3.5/4 Jul 23, 2023 Full Review Ian Kane Epoch Times “Buchanan Rides Alone” is one of the more engaging films of Randolph Scott’s later career and a great watch Rated: 3.5/5 Mar 29, 2023 Full Review Michael E. Grost Classic Film and Television Dark comedy gem in which the hero cleans up one of the most corrupt towns in Western history. Aug 10, 2011 Full Review Jeffrey M. Anderson Combustible Celluloid This is a lighter effort than usual, with more of a male bonding angle. It's also the most needlessly complicated of the series. Nov 6, 2008 Full Review Read all reviews

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Audience Member Another very good Weston right here. Yes I highly recommend it James Welch, Henderson, Arkansas March 8, 2023. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 03/08/23 Full Review ashley h Buchanan Rides Alone is a decent film. It is about Tom Buchanan who is heading back home with enough money to start his own ranch. Randolph Scott and Craig Stevens give good performances. The screenplay is a little slow in places. Budd Boetticher did an alright job directing this movie. I liked this motion picture because of the drama. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Audience Member Decent Western with a reasonable plot. Poor acting by Manuel Rojas; too artificial. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/31/23 Full Review Audience Member The premise of this would work as a screwball comedy. It gets so complicated with the various factions fighting amongst themselves to get a $50,000 ransom that it tips into absurdity a little bit. It's pretty watchable though, I liked it. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/08/23 Full Review Audience Member Budd Botteichers pair down B westerns deserve to be raised to a more loftier plane as they are the mosy interesting films in the western genre. The films he made with Randolph Scott are pretty matchless in terms of quality of acting and direction. Here Scott plays Buchanan a saddle tramp who rides into a border town where the welcome is less than friendly. Pretty soon Buchanan is making enemies with the local town bigwigs while standing up for a young Mexican who killed a local . Everybody in the town is pretty nasty and in a neat plot device some are related to each other. That doesn't stop them from underhanded and double dealing whether its stealing Buchannan's money or demanding an extortionate ransom to save the Mexican from the hangman's noose. It soon boils down to a final standoff but the film has a load of twisty turns to make before we reach that finale and unlike some of the other Scott/Botteicher Westerns there is plenty of humour too. The film contains plenty of tension as well and like all of Budd Boettichers films it really is a grand film in the western tradition. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/23/23 Full Review Audience Member Another interesting collaboration between director Budd Boetticher and star Randolph Scott. Charles Lang is credited with adapting the western story, but Boetticher's frequent writer Burt Kennedy did uncredited work on the script. Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 01/31/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis Journeying from Mexico back home to West Texas, mercenary Tom Buchanan (Randolph Scott) takes a break for the night in the border town of Agry. He soon discovers that almost every resident -- from the crooked sheriff (Barry Kelley) to the shifty-eyed innkeeper -- is a member of the prominent Agry family. When Buchanan defends Juan de la Vega (Manuel Rojas), a young man about to be lynched for shooting the town drunk, he himself is accused of murder and must struggle to escape town alive.
Director
Budd Boetticher
Producer
Harry Joe Brown
Screenwriter
Charles Lang
Production Co
Columbia Pictures Corporation
Genre
Western
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Aug 6, 1958, Limited
Release Date (Streaming)
Jun 20, 2014
Runtime
1h 18m
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