Budd Boetticher

Decision at Sundown

Decision at Sundown

Randolph Scott boldly subverts his upstanding image in this stark, often startlingly bleak tale of revenge and a man’s misguided quest for redemption. He plays the mysterious stranger who, consumed by hatred for the man he blames for his wife’s suicide, rides into the corrupt town of Sundown hell-bent on vengeance. There, both he and the townspeople face a reckoning that forces them to confront disturbing truths about themselves. All but annihilating the myth of the righteous western hero, Decision at Sundown edges the Ranown films into increasingly dark, despairing territory.

Film Info

  • United States
  • 1957
  • 77 minutes
  • Color
  • 1.85:1
  • English

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The Ranown Westerns: Five Films Directed by Budd Boetticher

The Ranown Westerns

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6 Discs

$119.96

Decision at Sundown
Cast
Randolph Scott
Bart Allison
John Carroll
Tate Kimbrough
Karen Steele
Lucy Summerton
Valerie French
Ruby James
Credits
Director
Budd Boetticher
Produced by
Harry Joe Brown
Associate producer
Randolph Scott
Screenplay by
Charles Lang
From a story by
Vernon L. Fluharty
Cinematography by
Burnett Guffey
Music composed and conducted by
Heinz Roemheld
Art direction
Robert Peterson
Film editor
Al Clark
Set decoration
Frank A. Tuttle
Assistant director
Sam Nelson
Recording supervisor
John Livadary
Sound
Jean Valentino

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