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Ride Lonesome

(Budd Boetticher, 1959)

Introduced by Grover Crisp, Executive Vice President, Asset Management, Film Restoration and Digital Management, Sony Pictures

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Ride Lonesome

"Budd Boetticher explored the bare essentials of the genre. His style was as simple as his impassive heroes. Deceptively simple. The archetypes of the genre were distilled to the point of abstraction."
MARTIN SCORSESE

One of seven austere westerns starring Randolph Scott and directed by one-time Ohio State football player Budd Boetticher, Ride Lonesome is perhaps the bleakest of the bunch. Here Scott plays bounty hunter Ben Brigade, who’s taking in criminal James Best to face trial for murder. Little does Best know that he’s only bait for Brigade’s brother Frank (Lee Van Cleef), who’s greatly wronged the bounty hunter in the past. Sony Pictures’ Grover Crisp presents footage pre- and post-restoration before the screening. (73 mins., 4K DCP)

More about the expert

Grover Crisp (Sony Pictures) has supervised numerous restoration projects including Elia Kazan’s On the Waterfront (1954), David Lean’s Lawrence of Arabia (1962), Luchino Visconti’s Sandra (1965), and Dennis Hopper’s Easy Rider (1969). This is his second appearance at Cinema Revival.

Ride Lonesome

Ride Lonesome, image courtesy Sony Pictures

Ride Lonesome

Ride Lonesome, image courtesy Sony Pictures

Restored by Sony Pictures.

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