TSPDT - Budd Boetticher

Budd Boetticher

Expressive Esoterica

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See Also

Robert Aldrich

André De Toth

Edward Dmytryk

Clint Eastwood

Sam Fuller

Henry Hathaway

Fritz Lang

Sergio Leone

Joseph H. Lewis

Anthony Mann

Sam Peckinpah

Raoul Walsh

Director / Producer / Screenwriter

1916 - 2001

Born July 29, Chicago, Illinois, USA

Key Production Country: USA

Key Genres: Western, Action, Traditional Western

Key Collaborators: Randolph Scott (Leading Player), Burt Kennedy (Screenwriter), Heinz Roemheld (Composer), Karen Steele (Leading Player), Harry Joe Brown (Producer), Charles Lawton Jr. (Cinematographer), Lucien Ballard (Cinematographer), Al Clark (Editor), John Hubbard (Character Player), Dyke Johnson (Character Player)

Highly Recommended: Seven Men from Now (1956), The Tall T (1957), Ride Lonesome (1959)

Recommended: Decision at Sundown (1957), Buchanan Rides Alone (1958), Comanche Station (1960), The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond (1960)

Links: [ IMDB ] [ TCMDB ] [ All-Movie Guide ] [ Film Reference ] [ Senses of Cinema Article #1 ] [ Senses of Cinema Article #2 ] [ Guardian Unlimited Obituary ] [ LA Weekly Article (2000) ] [ Boston Phoenix Article (2005) ] [ GreenCine Article: Interviews 1988/1992 ] [ Classic Film and Television Home Page ] [ Senses of Cinema Article (2006) ]

Books: [ Horizons West: Anthony Mann, Budd Boetticher, Sam Peckinpah - Studies of Authorship Within the Western ] [ The director's event: Interviews with five American film-makers: Budd Boetticher, Peter Bogdanovich, Samuel Fuller, Arthur Penn, Abraham Polonsky ]

DVD's: [ Amazon ]

1,000 Greatest Films: Ride Lonesome (1959)

250 Quintessential Noir Films: Behind Locked Doors (1948), The Killer is Loose (1956)


	"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)