Capital Celluloid 2023 — Day 207: Thu Jul 27

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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