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Horizons West

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After fighting in the Civil War, the Hammond brothers of Texas return to Austin and begin to drift apart. While Neal (Rock Hudson) commandeers the family ranch, courts local beauty Sally (Judith Braun) and becomes a marshal, Dan (Robert Ryan) turns to a life of crime and lusts after the wife (Julia Adams) of a prominent magnate (Raymond Burr). Their lives reconverge when Neal must choose between Dan and a group of ranchers terrorized by his brother's gang of cattle rustlers.

Critics Reviews

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Jeffrey M. Anderson Combustible Celluloid 06/27/2021
2.5/4
Boetticher's color cinematography is certainly above average, and he does manage a few interesting shots here and there, but he seems stuck in the limitations of the story and the numerous interior shots. Go to Full Review Clyde Gilmour Maclean's Magazine 10/21/2019
Not even the nightclub comics who make fun of movie dialogue have often dreamed up cornier stuff than some of the chitchat in this pretentious western. Go to Full Review Dennis Schwartz Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews 03/18/2012
B-
Script is too plaintive. Go to Full Review Michael E. Grost Classic Film and Television 08/10/2011
Inventive Western, rich in story, style and color. Go to Full Review Read all reviews

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William L 10/07/2020 Just another of a relative deluge of heavy-handed 'moral' Westerns typical of the 1950s, with a message that was clearly lost on those Boomer children who may have seen it upon release. Fails to build up tension or empathy for its characters, and so largely falls flat. (2/5) See more 06/15/2014 'Horizons West' is the kind of unpretentious, fast-paced Technicolor western that Universal-International churned out in the 1950s--Technicolor Iconographic Western!! See more 07/20/2013 130719: My first "Silver Screen Classics" movie (lots of westerns here). I do not like Rock Hudson as an actor. Other than him, I liked this film. I never lost interest. Quite entertaining. See more 06/04/2013 Inventive Western, rich in story, style and color. See more 01/19/2011 Average 'western' film but the difference being the lead character goes from good to bad which is probably the reason he is a post-war 'Confederate' Major. See more 12/09/2010 Marvelous b-Western from the always reliable Boetticher. This is a fairly grim film with an interesting anti-capitalist message. See more Read all reviews
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Cast & Crew

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Budd Boetticher

Director

Robert Ryan

Dan Hammond

Julie Adams

Lorna Hardin

Rock Hudson

Neil Hammond

John McIntire

Ira Hammond

Judith Braun

Sally Eaton
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Synopsis After fighting in the Civil War, the Hammond brothers of Texas return to Austin and begin to drift apart. While Neal (Rock Hudson) commandeers the family ranch, courts local beauty Sally (Judith Braun) and becomes a marshal, Dan (Robert Ryan) turns to a life of crime and lusts after the wife (Julia Adams) of a prominent magnate (Raymond Burr). Their lives reconverge when Neal must choose between Dan and a group of ranchers terrorized by his brother's gang of cattle rustlers.
Director
Budd Boetticher
Producer
Albert J. Cohen
Screenwriter
Louis Stevens
Production Co
Universal International Pictures
Genre
Western
Original Language
English
Release Date (Streaming)
May 31, 2020
Runtime
1h 21m