Open iTunes to preview, buy, and download this movie.
Plot Summary
Ride Lonesome is a star-studded western filled with drama and action. Ben Brigade (Randolph Scott, The Tall T) is a stern-talking bounty hunter with a big gun. He is assigned to bring in the impetuous Billy (James Best, TV’s “The Dukes of Hazzard”), but knows that wild Comanche tribesmen and Billy’s brother, Frank (Lee Van Cleef, The Good, The Bad and the Ugly), are on his tail. He enlists the help of Sam (Pernell Roberts, TV’s “Bonanza”) and Whit (Academy Award® winner James Coburn, 1998, Best Supporting Actor, Affliction), but they have their own motivations for coming along for the ride. Ride Lonesome is a classic western from the legendary director Budd Boetticher. Newly remastered.
Credits
Director
Screenwriter
Producer
Rotten Tomatoes Movie Reviews
TOMATOMETER
83%- Reviews Counted: 6
- Fresh: 5
- Rotten: 1
- Average Rating: 7.0/10
Top Critics' Reviews
Rotten: There is hardly any pretense of action or suspense as the characters move, almost aimlessly, through an open landscape, testing each other's strengths and weaknesses through conversations that become psychological chess games.
Fresh: Beautifully scripted by Burt Kennedy, with excellent performances all round as the characters evolve through subtly shifting loyalties and ambitions, it's a small masterpiece.
Fresh: A model of the genre.
Customer Reviews
Classic Randolph Scott
I have been revisiting many of the westerns i remember from movies and TV viewing as a boy. While I have a fondness for Audie Murphy, the more sophisticated and psychological westerns of the 50’s involved James Stewart and Randolph Scott. I consider Ride the High Country and Comanche Station two of Scott’s finest performances, but Ride Lonesome might rank not far behind.
We meet many familiar faces that later graced the TV screen, i.e. James Best, James Coburn, Pernell Roberts, and of course, Lee Van Cleef from Good, Bad and the Ugly fame. Scott is Ben Brigade who harbors a bitter hatred for the brother of James Best’s character and that is where the story unfolds. Along the way we also pick up Karen Steele who increases the tension between Scott and Roberts as they play cat and mouse with each other for the the reward that Best will bring. But that is not Scott’s real intention and the climax is a study in one man’s thirst for revenge. As with some of the other Scott westerns of the period there is no black and white and we are left wondering if one can truly burn the hatred out of their heart.
Viewers Also Bought
- Westbound (1959)
- Budd Boetticher
- View In iTunes
- The Nevadan
- Gordon Douglas
- View In iTunes
- A Lawless Street
- Joseph H. Lewis
- View In iTunes
- Fort Dobbs (1958)
- Gordon Douglas
- View In iTunes
- Canyon River
- Harmon Jones
- View In iTunes
- $12.99
- Genre: Action & Adventure
- Released: 1959
- © 1959, renewed 1987 Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. All Rights Reserved.