Key
Collaborators: Randolph
Scott (Leading Player), Burt Kennedy (Screenwriter), Heinz Roemheld (Composer), Karen Steele (Leading Player), Charles Lawton Jr.
(Cinematographer), John Hubbard (Character Player),
Dyke Johnson (Character
Player), Julie Adams (Leading Player), Harry Joe Brown (Producer), Al
Clark (Editor)
Highly
Recommended:
Seven Men from Now (1956), The
Tall T (1957), Ride Lonesome (1959)
Recommended: Decision
at Sundown (1957), Comanche
Station (1960), The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond (1960)
"Boetticher
is one of the most fascinating unrecognized talents in the
American cinema...Constructed partly as allegorical Odysseys and
partly as floating poker games where every character took turns
at bluffing about his hand until the final showdown,
Boetticher's Westerns expressed a weary serenity and moral
certitude that was contrary to the more neurotic approaches of
other directors on this neglected level of the cinema." - Andrew
Sarris (The American Cinema, 1968)
"Boetticher told his stark, ritualistic stories with laconic
dialogue and a minimum of visual fuss, refusing to romanticise
his antagonists and using the rocky, parched landscape to lend a
mythic, timeless dimension to their conflict." -
Geoff
Andrew (The Director's Vision, 1999)
"Between
1956 and 1960, Boetticher directed a cycle of Westerns that were
to secure for him an enthusiastic following among connoisseurs
of the genre both here and abroad. These films usually were
produced by Harry Joe Brown, written with
Burt Kennedy, and starred Randolph
Scott...The films are masculine affairs, involving
confrontations between male antagonists constantly at odds with
their world and always ready to deal with expected treachery." - (The
MacMillan International Film Encyclopedia, 1994)
"A filmmaker who lenses low-budget properties with a sense of
camera style, psychology, and wit, Boetticher is best remembered
for a series of Westerns starring Randolph Scott." -
William R. Meyer (The Film Buff's Catalog, 1978)
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11/01/2008 01:31 AM.
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