The Tall T
Based on a story by Elmore Leonard, this collaboration between director Budd Boetticher, actor Randolph Scott, and screenwriter Burt Kennedy is a model of elegantly economical storytelling charged with psychological tension. Here, Scott is the easygoing rancher who, along with the newlywed daughter (Maureen O’Sullivan) of a wealthy mining baron, must use his wits to stay alive when he is taken hostage by a band of ruthless stagecoach robbers. He is memorably matched by Richard Boone’s dangerously charming, nearly sympathetic villain in a performance that exemplifies the fine moral shading that distinguishes the Ranown westerns.
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Collector's Set
Cast
- Randolph Scott
- Pat Brennan
- Richard Boone
- Frank Usher
- Maureen O’Sullivan
- Doretta Mims
- Arthur Hunnicutt
- Ed Rintoon
Credits
- Director
- Budd Boetticher
- Produced by
- Harry Joe Brown
- Associate producer
- Randolph Scott
- Screenplay by
- Burt Kennedy
- Based on a story by
- Elmore Leonard
- Director of photography
- Charles Lawton Jr.
- Music composed and conducted by
- Heinz Roemheld
- Art director
- George Brooks
- Film editor
- Al Clark
- Set decorator
- Frank A. Tuttle
- Assistant director
- Sam Nelson
- Sound
- Ferol Redd
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