After the climactic gunfight, with bodies all over the place, Craig Stevens is heard saying to Peter Whitney, "Don't just stand there, Amos, go get a shovel.
" But one can clearly see Stevens say, ".
Go get a spade".
I'm familiar with Scott's work and am a fan. This film doesn't quite fit in with films like The Tall T, Ride Lonesome, Decision at Sundown etc.
"Buchanan Rides Alone" me deja la sensación de película desaprovechada, pues posee una trama con bastante potencial pero ejecutada de manera torpe y grotesca en pantalla.Es un filme intenso y con alternativas cambiantes, muy dinámico y con un ágil ritmo narrativo.
Randolph Scott plays Tom Buchanan, a smiling gunfighter who quickly stops smiling when he wanders into the unfriendliest town ever. The town is named Agry and is run by the Agry family.
The grand run of Randolph Scott-Budd Boetticher westerns stumbles a bit in this serio-comic outing featuring a town of villains who get more than they bargained for when they tangle with a man named Buchanan they underestimate to their grief.Buchanan (Scott) rides into Agry Town, on the border between California and Mexico, looking to make tracks to his West Texas home.
Good looking and good humoured with a much lighter touch than the other Randolph Scott/Budd Boetticher outings I have so far seen. These films the maverick Boetticher filmed come towards the end of Scott's career and to be honest he doesn't do an awful lot.
While the western genre is not my favourite one of all film genres (not sure which one is my favourite due to trying to appreciate them all the same), there is a lot of appreciation for it by me. There are a lot of very good to great films, with the best work of John Ford being notable examples.
This is a minor entry in the Randolph Scott canon - Sometimes I wonder if Budd Boetticher is slightly overrated as a Director and 'Buchanan Rides Alone' just reinforces my idea.I am a big Randolph Scott fan and I always thought he was the very model of a modern major western hero so I have no complaint on that score - love his pictures.
"Buchanan Rides Alone" was the fourth of seven films made between 1956-60 starring Randolph Scott and directed by famed director Budd Boetticher. As the title suggests, Scott plays yet another loner with no family ties.
Randolph Scott plays a rugged, happy-go-lucky, soldier-of-fortune in Budd Boetticher's western "Buchanan Rides Alone," and the eponymous character stirs up a lot of trouble with the powers-that-be in a corrupt little American border town in this brisk, well-photographed sagebrusher based on author Jonas Ward's novel "The Name's Buchanan." Until Buchanan rides across the Mexican-American border into Argy Town, everything is rosy for our stalwart protagonist.
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