Ride Lonesome
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| Ride Lonesome | |
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| Directed by | Budd Boetticher |
| Produced by | Budd Boetticher |
| Written by | Burt Kennedy |
| Starring | Randolph Scott Karen Steele Pernell Roberts Lee Van Cleef James Coburn |
| Music by | Heinz Roemheld |
| Cinematography | Charles Lawton Jr. |
| Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
| Release date(s) | 1959 |
| Running time | 73 min. |
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Ride Lonesome (1959) is one of Budd Boetticher's westerns starring Randolph Scott, part of a series of films that began with Seven Men from Now.
[edit] Plot
It is another variation on the same theme of an aging man (usually a former lawman) who finds himself in a situation where he must protect a married or widowed woman from threats including a likeable villain.
In this case the woman is Karen Steele and the villain is Pernell Roberts. An added dimension is that Scott has a secret past and that he is transporting a murderer (James Best) for the reward ( which the likeable villain also covets) while being pursued by the murderer's brother Lee Van Cleef.
This film marked the screen debut of James Coburn as Whit, the well-meaning sidekick of Roberts.
