Ride Lonesome

Well-regarded western, one of several collaborations between director Budd Boetticher and Randolph Scott. Scott plays Ben Brigade, a bounty hunter with a decades-old dream of vengeance on the man who hanged his wife., Wanted murderer Billy John is captured by bounty hunter Ben Brigade who intends to take him to Santa Cruz to be hanged. Brigade stops at a staging post, where he saves the manager’s wife from an attack and enlists the help of two outlaws to continue his journey more safely. However, the outlaws plan to take Billy for themselves and Billy’s brother Frank is in hot pursuit to rescue him. But Brigade has plans of his own., With a keen script and well-wrought performances, this western tells the tale of a bounty hunter who finally finds a chance to get revenge against the man who murdered his wife when he learns that his latest captive is the killer’s brother., Randolph Scott as an ex-sheriff who captures an outlaw and heads for Santa Cruz for the reward., A bounty hunter and his prisoner are en route to California when they save the manager’s wife of a frontier post from an attack. To ensure a safe journey forward, the bounty hunter enlists the help of two outlaws to accompany them, but these outlaws are not as helpful as they seem., A bounty hunter escorts a killer to town to be hanged, but is allowing the man’s outlaw brother to catch up with him, for a showdown over a shocking previous murder.