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Burt Kennedy (written by)
Release Date:
March 1960 (USA)
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SHE WAS WORTH $5000 ALIVE...OR DEAD! (original print ad - all caps) more
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A man saves a woman who had been kidnapped by Comanches, then struggles to get both of them home alive. full summary | add synopsis
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The Best DVDs of 2008
(From The AV Club. 30 December 2008, 9:01 PM, PST)
On DVD: The Films of Budd Boetticher, "Camp de Thiaroye"
(From IFC. 11 November 2008, 7:05 AM, PST)
(From The AV Club. 30 December 2008, 9:01 PM, PST)
On DVD: The Films of Budd Boetticher, "Camp de Thiaroye"
(From IFC. 11 November 2008, 7:05 AM, PST)
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Good Boetticher/Scott Western.
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Cast
(Complete credited cast) | Randolph Scott | ... | Jefferson Cody |
 | Nancy Gates | ... | Nancy Lowe |
| Claude Akins | ... | Ben Lane |
| Skip Homeier | ... | Frank |
| Richard Rust | ... | Dobie |
| Rand Brooks | ... | Station Man |
| Dyke Johnson | ... | John Lowe |
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74 min
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Color (Eastmancolor)
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2.35 : 1 more
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Mono (RCA Sound Recording)
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After making this film, the last of the so called Ranown Westerns (those that were produced by Randolph and his partner Harry Joe Brown) Randolph Scott felt the time was right to retire. Two years later, he was talked out of retirement by a young Sam Peckinpah, to make _Ride The High Country (1962)_, after which he would retire for good.
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Featured in Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That (2005) (TV)
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Something seemed to come together on the half dozen or so cheap Westerns that Oscar "Bud" Boetticher made with Randolph Scott and writer Burt Kennedy, and shot mostly at Movie Flats, California. It all seemed to work out pretty well.
I think this may have been their last joint effort and it's one of the better examples. The scripts seemed to fall into two general types -- town stories and journeys. This is a story about a journey, not too different from the one Scott took in "Ride Lonesome," I think it was. The one with Pernell Roberts.
There is always an interesting villain, not entirely unsympathetic, who has a code of his own. In this case it's Claude Akins, accompanied by two younger men who have known each other for a long time. The two youngsters provide a good deal of the humor. The two stand before a couple of posters nailed on a wall and one of them reads aloud an announcement about the stagecoach route, stumbling over the words. The other stares at him open-mouthed and exclaims in genuine wonder, "Why, I didn't know you could READ."
In fact a lot of the humor comes from Kennedy's script, wittingly or otherwise. He's given to phrases that enjoy a colorful twist.
"Ma'am, if you was mine, I'd of come for you even if I'd of died in the doin' of it."
"He rides a little on the gentle side. Maybe too gentle."
"A man can break with the wild life."
And Kennedy gives us a Scott who is a man of few words and doesn't use them over and over again. He has a tendency to answer a declaratory sentence with a doubtful question. "It wasn't MY fault." Scott: "It wasn't?"
But the humor is in the acting as well. Claude Akins, admittedly, is no barrel of laughs. He's played too many scoundrels for us to accept his jokes. But the two youngsters are likably ingenuous. Planning to kill their woman hostage, one tells the other, "It's a waste. It ain't like if she was all ugly. It's a shame to do a woman as pretty as that."
And Scott is the most amusing character of all. He's funny because he plays it all absolutely straight. He smiles only grimly, and then only once or twice. He understates outrageously. Akins: "If the Comanche cut our track, we'll be between a rock and a hard place." Scott: "You CAN say."
By the way, if they're a day's ride from Lordsberg, New Mexico, they shouldn't have to worry about Comanches, who were living in Texas, but they might have to worry about Mimbrenos Apaches.
The Indians are treated in an entirely uncomplicated manner. They are wild animals who butcher whites, including the women and children. ("Surprising what a buck will do for a piece of calico.") Well -- okay -- there IS a reference to Akins having murdered a village full of "tame Indians," which one imagines are kind of like "tame black panthers" or something.
The score is generic, as in all the Boetticher/Scott films, but that's okay because it fits in with the other constituents. It's tawdry and simple. There is a "major theme" which plays while this merry group ride their horses around the rocks. During chases, the same theme shows up but up tempo. As I say, it all works out.
Anyway, it's a fun movie, an interesting way to spend an hour and a half.