Friday | February 21, 2014 7:00 pm

Ride Lonesome

Screening on Film

Directed by Budd Boetticher.
With Randolph Scott, Karen Steele, Pernell Roberts.
US, 1959, 35mm, color, 74 min.
Print source: Sony Pictures

As he had in Seven Men from Now, Budd Boetticher has leather-faced Randolph Scott cope with a traumatic past through the ruse of revenge. The equal of the horses they ride (one of the director’s signature traits), the characters travel across a dramatic landscape (near Lone Pine), defining it scenographically, ultimately causing it to become claustrophobically familiar. Dissimulation of the storyline bleeds into landscapes that are magnificently – and tautologically – what they are.