Cubussoli Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Jeanskynebu the audience applauded

Micitype Pretty Good

Crwthod A lot more amusing than I thought it would be.

talisencrw This had both an excellent cast and was exciting from start to finish. I was curious about it when I saw it at #55 in my highly recommended copy of 'The Editors of American Cowboy Magazine's The Top 100 Western Movies of All Time'. Before I saw this, I had only seen a few of the Westerns Boetticher made with Randolph Scott; I had no other experience with the director. But this is marvelous--top-tier alongside the similarly great 'Buchanan Rides Alone'.I noticed in the comments section that others noted the short running time, and that there wasn't an ounce of fat on the film. They're right. The vast majority of filmmakers today could easily learn a thing or two from watching these fine collaborations. It was very weird for me, after seeing the gorgeous Maureen O'Sullivan star in the daringly sexually provocative pre-Code 'Tarzan and His Mate' be considered by her co-stars here, 23 years later, a very plain-looking old maid, and it was both bizarre (since when I have seen him in these 50's Westerns, he hasn't really been the romancing type) and awesome seeing Randolph Scott take a shining to her on her wedding night (to another man, lol!). Oh, to be alive and make films in that fine filmmaking era!

LeonLouisRicci The second of the seven Boetticher/Scott Westerns is another excellent and welcomed addition to the glut of mostly unremarkable Fifties Westerns. In fact, one could cull the herd to this...all of the Anthony Mann, Budd Boetticher Films and a dash of John Ford for contrast. That would be about the best of the best. With a few exceptions, the rest are Time-Passers, Fillers and Posers.Anyway, this is considered by most the best of the Bott/Scott Movies, but that is completely subjective because they are all equal as well as eloquent. Characters that have depth and chiseled personalities firing up the Screen with Dialog that snaps, most of them Written by Burt Kennedy.Here is a tense, taut, terrifying treatise on the importance of Home, belonging, Companionship, and Honor and it is all done with a restrained Machismo from the "Hero" and brutality and betrayal from the "Villains". The above mentioned Movies are Dialog and Philosophically driven against powerful Landscapes that more often than not become encroaching entrapments that tighten as the tension unfolds.We see here two Face-Offs that must have had the Hays Code Consideration raising eyebrows. Add to that the Off-Screen killings that linger in the mind of the Viewer and certainly clearly separated, without ambiguity, the Moral Divide between the chosen paths of Participants.

preppy-3 Cowboy Pat Brennan (Randolph Scott) gets caught in a hostage situation when some bandits led by bad guy Frank Usher (Richard Boone) hold up a stagecoach he's on. Also held captive are rich Doretta Mims (Maureen O'Sullivan) and husband Willard Mims (John Hubbard). Usher discovers that Doretta is rich and decides to hold her for ransom...but Pat is determined to save her.I'm not a fan of westerns but I agree there are a few classics like "High Noon" and "Ride the High Country". I read that this was a classic but, after seeing it, I can't figure out why! I heard this was an adult western--but what's so adult about it? The conflict and yawningly familiar tough guy dialogue has been before in countless westerns. I pretty much knew what the ending was going to be after the bad guys showed up. This film has nothing great or interesting in it. The acting is good (especially by Scott), the scenery is beautiful in Technicolor and it is well-directed by Budd Boetticher (that's why it gets 2 stars)--but I was bored silly. Maybe for western fans this is a classic but I couldn't wait for it to end. I can't recommend this.

ma-cortes Very good Western about a rough confrontation with strong characterization. Compelling tale of a cowboy , Randolph Scott , and his nemesis, Richard Boone, and hoodlums , Skip Homeier and Henry Silva . In the Old west there are always the men who live breathe violence and the women who hold their breath . Having lost his horse in a wager , a hard-bitten man named Brennan (Scott) takes a stagecoach driven by his friend Ed (Arthur Hunnicutt) . Ed is carrying newlyweds , Willard (John Hubbard) and Doretta (Maureen O'Sullivan). At the next station the stagecoach and its passengers are kidnapped by a trio of gunfighters ( Homeier , Silva) led by a villain named Usher (Richard Boone). When Usher aware that Doretta is the daughter of a rich copper-mine owner, he decides to obtain a ransom but the events get worse.This is a tremendously exciting story of a drifter who helps newlyweds and falls in love with the recent wife . It begins as a sluggish , slow-moving Western but follows to surprise us with dark , complex characters and solid plot . The simple tale is almost rudimentary though full of clichés, a good guy come to free newlyweds just in time to get the woman . Suspense and tension builds over the time in which the outlaws and the starring await a response to their demands . The action is brutishly cruel as when the nasties shoot without remission. The highlights of the film are the facing off between Scott and his enemies and the climatic showdown on the ending . Phenomenal and great role for Randolph Scott as tough guy , he's the whole show. He play perfectly as stoic, craggy, and uncompromising figure .Vivid and atmospheric musical score by Heinz Roemhelz and colorful cinematography reflecting marvelously the rocky,stony scenarios by Charles Lawton Jr . Watchable results for this offbeat Western.The motion picture is stunningly directed by Budd Boetticher in bleak style . Boetticher formed a production company called ¨Ranown¨ along with Harry Joe Brown and Randolph Scott and as usual writer Burt Kennedy. The first Harrry Brown-Boetticher-Scott movie was 1956's " Seven men from now" , following ¨Decision at sundown(57)¨, ¨Buchanan rides alone(58)¨,¨Westbound(59)¨ ,¨Ride lonesome(59) ,in the decades since, they have produced and directed one Western ¨Comanche Station(60)¨ . Boetticher was a great expert on Western genre and also on the bullfighting world as ¨Bullfighter and the lady¨, ¨The magnificent matador¨ and ¨Arruza¨ . Rating : Above average. Well worth watching .