Ride Lonesome
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| Ride Lonesome | |
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| Directed by | Budd Boetticher |
| Produced by | Budd Boetticher |
| Written by | Burt Kennedy |
| Starring | Randolph Scott Karen Steele Pernell Roberts James Coburn |
| Music by | Heinz Roemheld |
| Cinematography | Charles Lawton Jr. |
| Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
| Release date(s) | 1959 |
| Running time | 73 min. |
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Ride Lonesome(1959) is one of Budd Boetticher's series of westerns with Randolph Scott that began with Seven Men from Now. It is another variation on the same theme of an aging man (usually a former lawman) who finds himself in a situation where he must protect a married or widowed woman from threats including a likeable villain.
In this case the woman is Karen Steele and the villain is Pernell Roberts. An added dimension is that Scott has a secret past and that he is transporting a murderer (James Best) for the reward ( which the likeable villain also covets) while being pursued by the murderer's brother Lee Van Cleef.
This film marked the screen debut of James Coburn as Whit, the well-meaning sidekick of Roberts.
