Ride Lonesome

Brigade (Randolph Scott) with prisoner Billy (James Best) arrives at the station, meeting Boone (Pernell Roberts), Wid (James Coburn) and the master's wife Carrie (Karen Steele), plot thickening in Budd Boetticher's Ride Lonesome, 1959.

With director Budd Boetticher’s landscapes, about an hour into the picture, we finally meet villain Frank (Lee Van Cleef) who, explaining to a sidekick (Dyke Johnson), begins to realize why bounty hunter Randolph Scott (not seen) doesn’t mind being followed, in Ride Lonesome, 1959.

First scene from the credits, bounty hunter Brigade (Randolph Scott) finds outlaw Billy John (James Best), in Budd Boetticher's flawless Western from Burt Kennedy's original screenplay, Ride Lonesome, 1959.

Setting out to find the missing station-master husband of Mrs. Lane (Karen Steele), bounty hunter Brigade (Randolph Scott), with prisoner (James Best) and two semi-allies (Pernell Roberts, James Coburn), are confronted by Indians, strategy ensuing, in Budd Boetticher’s Ride Lonesome, 1959.

A bounty hunter (Randolph Scott) tries to bring a murderer to justice through perilous territory in Budd Boetticher's Ride Lonesome (1959).