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Watch: Ride Lonesome 1959 123movies, Full Movie Online – A wanted murderer, Billy John, is captured by Ben Brigade, a bounty hunter, who intends to take him to Santa Cruz to be hanged. Brigade stops at a staging post, where he saves the manager’s wife from an Indian attack, and enlists the help of two outlaws to continue his journey more safely. However, the Indian attacks persist, the outlaws plan to take Billy for themselves, tempted by the offer of amnesty for his captor, and Billy’s brother Frank is in hot pursuit to rescue him. But Brigade has plans of his own ….
Plot: A wanted murderer, Billy John, is captured by Ben Brigade, a bounty hunter, who intends to take him to Santa Cruz to be hanged. Brigade stops at a staging post, where he saves the manager’s wife from an Indian attack, and enlists the help of two outlaws to continue his journey more safely.
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In the past year or so, I’ve made a determined decision to get more accustomed to pre-1970’s films from around the world, particularly genres I’ve previously given short change to, such as musicals, war films and westerns. I have to admit it’s greatly enhanced my appreciation of cinema in general. It’s amazing how great some of these films actually are.

Since cinema is the greatest love of my life, I also collect books on film, trying to find out anything and everything I can. As the old Calvin Klein commercial goes, ‘A man has many loves, but only one Obsession’. An unexpectedly great and relatively inexpensive find was ‘The Editors of American Cowboy’s The Top 100 Westerns of All Time,’ from 2011. Looming at #52 was this, and its write-up sounded intriguing, so I’ve always kept my eyes open for it. Sure enough, last month I saw a Randolph Scott Westerns 6-pack for a very low price, and I pulled the trigger (pardon the pun).

This was exceptional and clearly deserves its lofty status. There is so much action, intrigue and beauty jam-packed in Burt Kennedy’s script for this 72 minutes. Every shot is finely composed and exquisitely filmed. I dare you to find a better supporting cast. Sure, the four-hour epics by the Sir David Leans and Victor Flemings out there are great, but I’d rather see a simple story, brilliantly told than the gluttonous two-to-three-hour pieces of self-important crap you find these days. Let that be my epitaph.

I was so close to even giving this a perfect grade. It’s honestly THAT good.

You just don’t seem like the kind that would hunt a man for money.

Ride Lonesome is directed by Budd Boetticher, written by Burt Kennedy and stars Randolph Scott, Karen Steele, Pernell Roberts, James Coburn, James Best & Lee Van Cleef. Charles Lawton Jr. is the cinematographer (in CinemaScope for the Alabama Hills, Lone Pine, California location) and Heinz Roemheld provides the musical score. Film is part of the Ranown Western cycle involving Boetticher, Scott, Kennedy and producer Harry Joe Brown.

Bounty hunter Ben Brigade (Scott) captures wanted outlaw Billy John (Best) and tells him he’s taking him to Santa Cruz to be hanged. Best boasts that his brother Frank (Cleef) will soon be arriving to ensure that doesn’t happen. Brigade isn’t the least bit bothered by this statement. The two men stop at a Wells Junction, a remote swing station, where they encounter Boone (Roberts) & Whit (Coburn), two drifters, and Mrs Lane (Steele), the station attendant’s wife. With Mr Lane missing and the Mescalero Apache’s on the warpath, the group decide to collectively travel to Santa Cruz, but hot on their trail are the Indians and also Frank John’s gang. There’s also the small matter of motives within the group, for it seems Boone & Whit, too, have a special interest in Billy, while Brigade may have something far more ulterior driving him on…

As the decades have rolled by, the Boetticher/Scott Westerns have come to be rightly regarded as genre high points. Between 1956 to 1960 they produced 7 pieces of work. The weakest of which were the more jovial “Buchanan Rides Alone” (1958), and the Kennedy absent “WB” contract filler that was “Westbound” (1959). The remaining five each follow a familiar theme that sees Scott as a man driven by emotional pain, movies with simmering undertones and pulsing with psychological smarts. If you poll a hundred Western fans for their favourite Boetticher/Scott movie, you will find any of the five being mentioned as a favourite – such is the tightness and intelligence of each respective picture.

So we are out in the desolated Old West, it’s harsh and weather beaten. Our five characters are either troubled by death – prior and pending – and, or, searching for a life that may be a touch too far from their grasp. As their journey unfolds, loyalties will be tested and shifted, uneasy bonds formed, all while psychological and sexual needs bubble away under the surface. All this human foible glowering is viewed by the enveloping Alabama Hills – with Mount Whitney the chief patriarch overseeing his charges. “Ride Lonseome” is a stunning genre movie, an elegiac piece, one that’s bleak yet not without hope, a collage of tones seamlessly blended together to create one almost magnificent whole. It was the first Boetticher movie to be in CinemaScope, and pic is directed with great economic skill, where the whole width of the screen is creatively used by the director, thus placing the characters in the landscape in the way that the great “Anthony Mann” used to do with “Jimmy Stewart”. His action construction is smart, and it should be noted that there is not one interior shot in the whole film. Lawton Jr. sumptuously shoots in Eastman Color, which is actually a perfect choice for the rugged terrain and the wide and lonesome inducing open spaces provided by the Scope format. While Kennedy’s script is sparing, perfectly so, the dialogue is clipped but very telling, and crucially there’s no manipulation in the narrative.

Then of course there’s the cast. Scott leads off with one of his brave and ageing man of few words portrayals, a character with inner sadness gnawing away at him. With just one glance and a couple of words, Scott actually provides more depth than most other actors in the genre were able to do with more meatier parts. With the lead protagonist established, Boetticher surrounds him with fine support. Coburn was making his film debut and with his tall frame and distinctive voice he leaves a good impression, mostly because he works so well off of Roberts’ more outwardly tough turn. Their partnership gives the film a believable friendship at its centre, lovable rogues perhaps? And they also provide some of the lighter moments that Boetticher and Kennedy use to tonally keep us guessing. Steele is just sultry, a blonde fire cracker in the middle of a potential hornets nest. While Best does a nice line in snivelling weasel, his character trait being that he shoots his victims in the back. As for Cleef? He’s barely in it, but after his character is introduced into the story, his presence hangs over proceedings like a dark heavy cloud. He will be back, though, and rest assured it’s worth the wait.

Does Ride Lonesome have flaws? Yes. One thing is, is that at 73 minutes it’s too damn short!. But moving away from that particular greedy itch of mine, the film does carry some Western clichés. Most notably with the Indian participation in the story. Be it chases, portentous smoke signals or an adobe corral attack – where our group are of course outnumbered – it’s stock Cowboy & Indian fare, not helped by Roemheld’s music, which only reinforces the clichés. Thankfully, in Boetticher’s hands the clichés are overcome by the scenes managing to raise the pulse, and in one particular sequence, it provides the basis for a terrific tracking shot. Roemheld however does deliver the goods for the finale, though, and what a finale it is too. Featuring a tree shaped like a cross, the ending has sparked many an interpretation. Some way too deep (French critics) & some just bizarre (internet sleuths), when actually the interpretation is simple – hell they even got “Martin Scorsese” to explain it on the DVD… The memorable shot involving the tree, as the music pounds away, can induce pounds of goose-flesh rising up on the skin. As endings go in the Boettticher canon? It gives “Comanche Station’s” riderless horse finale a run for the title of being his, and Scott’s, best. A near masterpiece from a true auteur. 9/10

Roberts and Scott perfectly matched
For a 71-minute movie, Ride Lonesome is one of the most rivetingly memorable Westerns I’ve ever seen. Fans of epics and lots of mindless action should stay away. This is a thinking person’s group character study of the five principals and the ubiquitous presence of Lee Van Cleef’s “Big Brother” Frank despite a very economic amount of screen time.

True enough that in many ways, this plays a like a typical ’50’s “classic-formula”(including a misplaced-and-awkward Indian-Chief-wants-widow-for-squaw subplot) Western — albeit exceedingly well-directed and well-acted. The dialog, richness of characterizations, and interplay among characters ultimately set this one apart. These come across as indelibly drawn real people who happened to live in the 1870’s West. However, Boetticher fans need not threat that he has totally abandoned his contributions to Western Mythology. The rather spartan genre-emblematic symbolism he does include resonates all the more as a result of this efficiency.

This is true despite the presence, nay — especially due to the presence of Randolph Scott and his pitch-perfect interplay with charmingly roguish Boone, marvelously essayed by Pernell Roberts. Neither ever loses sight of who and what the other man is. Both share a healthy amount of mutual respect mixed with healthy skepticism and awareness of an inevitable dark cloud shadowing their temporary alliance. Roberts, in particular, evokes every bit of sardonic humor, masculine charm, and fidelity to his own peculiar code that the script allows him. Scott, for his part, is far closer to the dark bitterness of Will Kane than he is when playing most of his heroic characters.

Both characters are more-than-ably joined in the ensemble by half-witted-but-loyal cowpoke Whit (James Coburn), homicidal man-boy Billy (James Best), and-abandoned-wife-and-later-widowed Karen Steele. The female actor is quite appealing visually and as convincing as possible in her role given her contrived introduction into the plot. Once we get past the Indian subplot, she comes into her own as she gradually learns who Scott’s and Robert’s characters truly are, and adjusts her emotions accordingly.

But, one facet of this film that has always stuck in my mind is the way Boetticher and Kennedy brilliantly collaborated to have Van Cleef essay Big Brother Frank, the movie’s ultimate villain – especially considering the many High-Noon-ish parallels. He neither portrays a Big-Brother-Frank-Miller type of cocksure-but-defiantly-laconic swaggering gang leader or a typically unrepentant Lee Van Cleef villain. Instead, we get a somewhat remorseful, increasingly bemused, but immutably duty-bound human being of real-flesh-and-blood feelings. It is only after exhausting potential alternatives that he reluctantly comes to terms with the inevitability of his final conflict with Scott. And, his reluctance to do Scott further harm seems genuine, only to be trumped by his commitment to free little brother Billy.

But, as good as the entire ensemble is, the film draws a good deal of its charm and heart from Pernell Robert’s performance as Boone. I note this as an aside, because Roberts went on to make only one more indelible feature film performance before getting overshadowed on Bonanza. Even worse for his promising career, directors reportedly found him nearly impossible to work with and there was no love lost between him and his fellow cast members who felt he thought himself superior to all of them; intellectually speaking, he was probably right, but that bought him nothing in Hollywood. Eventually, he had a fairly long run starring in a highly rated series that for some reason, has had no shelf-life on reruns called Trapper John, M. D. But, there, too, Hollywood scuttlebutt indicates that he made few friends. After just re-watching his marvelous work in “Ride Lonesome”, and recalling other performances, I found myself thinking that these off-the-set issues were truly unfortunate because Roberts truly exuded leading-man-caliber talent. Instead I can only urge other IMDB’ers not to miss this performance.

Despite the economic budget, the cinematic and sound-related choices are impeccably executed. Contrasts are especially effective. My rating for this near-perfect Western is 9/10.

Ride Lonesome
This classic film is one I found out about because it was listed in the book 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die, the majority of the time I agree with the entries, so I hoped it would be the same with this one, directed by Budd Boetticher (The Cimarron Kid, City Beneath the Sea, The Tall T). Basically Ben Brigade (Randolph Scott) is a bounty hunter, he captures wanted outlaw Billy John (James Best), he intends to take him to Santa Cruz County, Arizona to be hanged. Billy John brags that his fellow outlaw brother Frank (Lee Van Cleef) will not allow him to come to justice, Brigade is not worried, but he allowing the brother to catch up to him. Along the way, Brigade stops at a staging post, he comes to the rescue of Carrie Lane (Karen Steele) during an Indian attack, he is joined during the rescue by new partners, gunmen Sam Boone (Pernell Roberts) and his friend Whit (James Coburn), to continue the journey more safely. Brigade knows that Sam and Whit’s arrival is motivated to Billy John for themselves and get the reward for his capture, and Frank is in hot pursuit to stop them. Scott is a good lead, Best has fun as the giggly criminal, and Van Cleef and Coburn are good snarling villains, it is a very simplistic but neatly crafted script, and there is plenty of material to get your attention, including shooting and chase sequences, a worthwhile western. Good!

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 13 min (73 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated Approved
Genre Western
Director Budd Boetticher
Writer Burt Kennedy
Actors Randolph Scott, Karen Steele, Pernell Roberts
Country United States
Awards N/A
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Mono (RCA Sound Recording)
Aspect Ratio 2.35 : 1
Camera N/A
Laboratory Pathé Laboratory, USA (color)
Film Length N/A
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process CinemaScope (anamorphic)
Printed Film Format 35 mm