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Buchanan Rides Alone (1958) [Re-UP]

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Date: 5 Apr 2015 04:51:00
Buchanan Rides Alone (1958) [Re-UP]

Buchanan Rides Alone (1958)
DVD5 | VIDEO_TS | NTSC 16:9 | 01:19:22 | 2,91 Gb
Audio: #1 English, #2 French - each AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps | Subs: English, French
Genre: Western

Director: Budd Boetticher
Stars: Randolph Scott, Craig Stevens, Barry Kelley

On his way home to West Texas, Tom Buchanan rides into the Californian border town of Agry, and into a feud between several members of the Agry family. In helping out a Mexican seeking revenge on one of them, Buchanan finds himself against the whole family.

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Buchanan Rides Alone (1958) [Re-UP]

Lesser-known film from superior western director Budd Boetticher predates Akira Kurosawa's Yojimbo as an absurd, darkly comic tale where the mercenary laughs at the greedy fools. Randolph Scott played indomitable, deadly serious taskmasters in Boetticher classics such as Ride Lonesome and Comanche Station, but failing to comprehend the long standing, deep seeded greed of the townspeople, he's never in control and winds up spending the film with a bemused look on his face simply knowing he's at odds with the corrosive atmosphere. While Toshiro Mifune manipulated the warring buffoons into destroying themselves, these townspeople need no such puppet mastery; more than happy to do it on their own, the plot is driven by their latest underhanded deed. Even the title of Boetticher's tongue-in-cheek film is ironic, a parody of the typical western hero rather than the one being presented.

Buchanan Rides Alone (1958) [Re-UP]

Tom Buchanan is the most sociable character Scott played for Boetticher, picking up friends on the strength of his infectious grin as much as his honorable values. An unlikely candidate to stick his neck out for what he believes just given he's finally accrued enough blood money to purchase a ranch, Buchanan doesn't espouse any values; he's simply an amiable and accommodating individual. Riding into the town of Agry, run by the eponymous angry brothers who think nothing of double crossing and killing anyone in the way of their fortune and power, Buchanan enters into a feud on the right side, helping a Mexican (Manuel Rojas) who's avenging his sister's rape, but that's also the wrong side of the hypocritical town's law.

Buchanan Rides Alone (1958) [Re-UP]

Boetticher extends the hardboiled honor system to the Mexicans, certainly something racist Hollywood wasn't known for, portraying them as more noble and honorable than their American counterparts. Boetticher is at his best when Burt Kennedy contributes more than a rewrite, building strategy and tension between a small group of well defined characters that leads to the predestined final gunfight. Charles Lang's unfocused script is overloaded with coincidence and contrivance, negating the existential meditative game of human chess Boetticher is known for with unbelievable twists. Boetticher and Lang certainly know the script is ridiculous, they simply don't care because the Agry's way of life so greatly exceeds it.
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Buchanan Rides Alone (1958) [Re-UP]

Burt Kennedy and Charles Lang were Boetticher's favorite writers. Here is Lang's turn, adapting a novel by Jonas Ward. Buchanan rides into Agry Town, where he meets the Agry brothers and also the son of Simon Agry, Roy who ends up getting killed. It is hard to conceive a more despicable, corrupt, disloyal family with no principles at all. Craig Stevens is Carbo, who seems to have more brains than the brothers and is a kind of adviser to Judge Simon Agry. Lew Agry, the sheriff is the meanest of the lot, but one of the guys that helps him, called Pecos Hill is not so bad and he feels friendly in relation to Buchanan because they both come from the west of Texas. Amos Agry is the brother with no brains and he is like a Ping Pong ball between Simon and Lew. One of the best moments of the film is tragically funny: there are two groups of people shooting at each other and a saddlebag full of money between them. If one goes to pick up the saddlebag, whichever side he will run with the bag, the other side will shoot him, it is a no win situation. A fast moving, highly enjoyable western with a very good story and Randolph Scott at his best.
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