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Any Western fans? Well, podnuh, you better get over to the bunkhouse and

Posted by tinear on January 29, 2010 at 09:55:31:
cue up Budd Boetticher's, "The Tall T." Boetticher assembled a fantastic cast to support his usual star, the reed-thin, taciturn, and leather-skinned Randolph Scott. Are there two better film villains than Richard Boone and Henry Silva? Or a more fetching woman in distress than could be played by Maureen O' Sullivan? And the story! Elmore Leonard, no less, wrote the source material.
An aging cowboy, after a lifetime of cow-punching, finally gets a small spread but, attempting to get ahead faster, makes a bad bet, losing his horse in the process. As he is walking back to his place, he hitches a ride on a stagecoach containing a newly-wed couple. Almost immediately, a gang of vicious murderers led by Boone seizes the coach and realize one traveler could make them all rich.
Sure, this has the glorious cinematography one would expect from an on-location Western of this era, and it has the involving plot and tension of the best films of this genre. What elevates it from good to excellent, however, is the interaction between the two talented leads, Scott and Boone. Each sees in the other the road not taken and a certain respect develops between them, even though both know sudden death lies directly ahead for both.