Randolph Scott is one of the most recognizable and acclaimed actors in Western history, with a storied career spanning from 1928 to 1962. Scott's command of the screen was not just down to his ...

THE BLACK PALACE OF LECUMBERRI was no joke. As the cell door closed behind him, a wave of dread struck Budd Boetticher. Stench rose from a hole in the ground, and the only window, twenty feet above, ...

The Golden Age of Hollywood brought so many different stars together that it might make your head spin, but as far as Westerns are concerned, it wasn't often that two genre heavies headlined the same ...

Budd Boetticher stretched the format of his Randolph Scott westerns into CinemaScope with this 1959 entry in the cycle, and in some respects the narrative seems drawn out as well: there is hardly any ...