The Tall T (Boetticher, 1957): Prince Charles Cinema, 4pm
This film, part of the Ranown Series: Westerns of Budd Boetticher season at the Prince Charles, also screens on July 3rd. Full details here.
Chicago Reader review:
One of the best of the Randolph Scott-Budd Boetticher B westerns (1957),
in which the action is almost entirely psychological (Scott tries to
pry Maureen O’Sullivan away from the outlaws—Richard Boone, Henry Silva,
Skip Homeier—who are holding her for ransom) and the landscape is
deftly stylized into dark interiors (caves, a fateful well) that
punctuate the wide-open spaces. Boone makes one of the most memorable of
Boetticher’s witty, intelligent villains; no other western director so
seductively gave evil its due.
Dave Kehr
Here (and above) is director Martin Scorsese extolling the virtues of the film.
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