Synopsis
Ride Lonesome (1959) is Budd Boetticher's lean western, free to watch online on iFILM. Bounty hunter Ben Brigade captures the killer Billy John and starts the long ride to the gallows at Santa Cruz.
The route looks short on a map and feels endless on the trail. At a swing station two drifters attach themselves to Brigade — ex-outlaws after the same prisoner, since handing in Billy buys them a pardon. A freshly widowed woman rides along too. Apaches circle behind them. And Billy's brother is closing in to free him. Randolph Scott plays a man who isn't hauling his captive for the money; he's settling something far older.
This is one of seven westerns Boetticher made with Scott, and it runs a tight 73 minutes with nothing wasted. Watch for an early James Coburn and a coldly precise Lee Van Cleef. A dry, hard little genre piece for anyone who likes their frontier stories without sentiment. Stream Ride Lonesome online on iFILM.
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