Based on a story by Elmore Leonard, this collaboration between director Budd Boetticher, actor Randolph Scott, and screenwriter Burt Kennedy is a model of elegantly economical storytelling charged with psychological tension. Here, Scott is the easygoing rancher who, along with the newlywed daughter (Maureen O’Sullivan) of a wealthy mining baron, must use his wits to stay alive when he is taken hostage by a band of ruthless stagecoach robbers. He is memorably matched by Richard Boone’s dangerously charming, nearly sympathetic villain in a performance that exemplifies the fine moral shading that distinguishes the Ranown westerns.
NOTE: The first three films in the collection (The Tall T, Decision at Sundown, Buchanan Rides Alone) were released on a single disc and are noticeably softer than the two-per-disc Ride Lonesome and Comanche Station, which fare better with 60% higher bitrate.
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TITLE...........: The Tall T (1957) STARS...........: Randolph Scott, Richard Boone, Maureen O'Sullivan DIRECTOR........: Budd Boetticher WRITERS.........: Burt Kennedy, Elmore Leonard (novel) GENRE...........: Western, Thriller, Romance IMDB............: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0051047 RUNTIME.........: 1h 17mn SIZE............: 5.06GB VIDEO CODEC.....: HEVC (Main10@L4) BITRATE.........: 9000 Kbps (2-pass) RESOLUTION......: 1920x1040 ASPECT RATIO....: 1.85:1 FRAMERATE.......: 23.976 fps AUDIO1..........: English FLAC 1.0 AUDIO2..........: Commentary by film scholar Jeanine Basinger (2008) SOURCE..........: The Ranown Westerns Criterion Blu-ray, Indicator Blu-ray SUBTITLES.......: ENG ENCODE DATE.....: 2023-08-26
Extras
• Audio commentary by film scholar Jeanine Basinger (2008) • Introduction by Martin Scorsese • The Guardian Interview with Elmore Leonard (1997) • Image Gallery • Trailer
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