- Ride Lonesome
Infobox Film
name = Ride Lonesome
image_size = 200px
caption = original movie poster
director =Budd Boetticher
producer =Budd Boetticher
writer =Burt Kennedy
starring =Randolph Scott Karen Steele Pernell Roberts Lee Van Cleef James Coburn
music =Heinz Roemheld
cinematography =Charles Lawton Jr.
editing =
distributor =Columbia Pictures
released = 1959
runtime = 73 min.
language = English
budget =
amg_id =
imdb_id = 0053220|"Ride Lonesome" (1959) is one of
Budd Boetticher 's "Ranown" westerns starringRandolph Scott , part of a series of films that began with "Seven Men from Now ". [cite news |first=Michael |last=Wilmington |work=Los Angeles Times |title=Tall in the Director's Chair Budd Boetticher made some of the best-remembered Westerns of '50s and '60s; they don't make 'em like that (or him) anymore |page=4 |date=1992-11-29] [cite news |work=The New York Times |url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B0DE5DC1E30F930A35750C0A961948260 |title=Randolph Scott is dead at 89; Laconic cowboy-film actor |date=1987-03-03]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 isPernell 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 brotherLee Van Cleef .This film marked the screen debut of
James Coburn as Whit, the well-meaning sidekick of Roberts. [cite news |work=San Jose Mercury News |title=Coburn's Comfort Zone at Home in Western with Heston and Berenger Supporting |page=6 |date=1995-01-22 |first=Ron |last=Miller |quote=JAMES COBURN began his movie career in a saddle 36 years ago, playing the gangly and not-too-bright sidekick to bad guy Pernell Roberts in the 1959 Randolph Scott western "Ride Lonesome."]In popular culture
The film plays a prominent role in "The Cursed Tuba Contingency", an episode of "The Middleman".
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