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Buchanan Rides Alone is a 1958 American Western film directed by Budd Boetticher and starring Randolph Scott, Craig Stevens, and Barry Kelley. Based on the 1956 novel The Name's Buchanan by Jonas Ward, the film is about a Texan returning home with enough money to start his own ranch.
Find out who starred in and worked behind the scenes of the 1958 western film Buchanan Rides Alone, directed by Budd Boetticher and based on a novel by Jonas Ward. See the full list of actors, writers, producers, composers and more on IMDb.
A 1958 western directed by Budd Boetticher and starring Randolph Scott as a drifter framed for murder in a corrupt border town. The film features a noir-tinged plot, rich villains, and a memorable ironic ending.
- Tom Buchanan, Abe Carbo, K. T., Lew Agry
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.
When Buchanan defends Juan de la Vega (Manuel Rojas), a young man about to be lynched for shooting the town drunk, he himself is accused of murder and must struggle...
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- Randolph Scott
- Budd Boetticher
- Western
Randolph Scott plays a rugged, happy-go-lucky, soldier-of-fortune in Budd Boetticher's western "Buchanan Rides Alone," and the eponymous character stirs up a lot of trouble with the powers-that-be in a corrupt little American border town in this brisk, well-photographed sagebrusher based on author Jonas Ward's novel "The Name's Buchanan."
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In Buchanan Rides Alone, Scott switches from grim to affable and easy-going as a momentarily wealthy cowboy (Scott) who wanders into the corrupt bordertown of Agryville and runs afoul of the amoral, backstabbing Agry family that runs the town.
