Western star Randolph Scott straps on his guns for one of his very best films, now available on DVD for the first time. After losing his horse in a bull-riding contest, rancher Pat Brennan (Randolph Scott) hitches a lift home on the stagecoach out of the frontier town of Contention. At a remote way station, the stage is ambushed by a ruthless bandit gang led by Usher (Richard Boone). They don't intend leaving any witness - until they discover that one of the passengers is copper heiress Doretta Mims (Maureen O'Sullivan). Now they want $50,000 in ransom from her father... - or everybody dies. As tension mounts almost to breaking point, Brennan must discover a way to outwit - and outgun - the outlaw gang before they murder all of their hostages. Adapted from a story by Elmore Leonard, The Tall T is widely acknowledged to be one of the very best films in a series of highly rated westerns starring Randolph Scott and directed by Budd Boetticher. In 2000, The American Library of Congress selected the film for special preservation in the U.S. National Film Registry for being 'culturally, historically or aesthetically significant.' Believed by many to be one of his best films, Randolph Scott excels as expected in a western with many twists... [show more]
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Please note this is a region 2 DVD and will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play Perhaps the grittiest and grimmest of the Randolph Scott-Budd Boetticher collaborations The Tall T was adapted by Burt Kennedy from the Elmore Leonard short story The Captive Scott plays a former ranch foreman who along with newlyweds Maureen O&39;Sullivan and John Hubbard is held hostage at a deserted stagecoach station by ruthless bandit Richard Boone and his henchmen Henry Silva and Skip Homeier Since we already know that Boone has no qualms about killing a freckle-faced 10 year old boy we shudder to think of what&39;s in store for Scott and his fellow captives once Boone carries out his plan to rob the next stagecoach In Boetticher&39;s time-honored Mexican Standoff fashion Scott bargains with Boone for the life of O&39;Sullivan but his efforts are undercut by Hubbard&39;s cowardly treachery The film&39;s sparse carefully controlled tension level bursts into full-out bloodshed only minutes before the final fade-out Curiously the title The Tall T is never explained at any time; certainly the "T" doesn&39;t refer to Randolph Scott whose character name is Pat Brennan
Suspense-filled Western starring Randolph Scott. Forced to take the stagecoach after losing his horse in a bet, Pat Brennan (Scott), along with newlyweds Doretta and Willard Mims (Maureen O'Sullivan and John Hubbard), find themselves held hostage by a trio of ruthless outlaws led by Frank Usher (Richard Boone). After learning from the cowardly Willard that Doretta is the daughter of the richest man in the state, Usher sends him to demand a ransom. As they wait for the money to be paid, Brennan, realising that both his and Doretta's lives hang in the balance, tries to turn the outlaws against themselves in one last, desperate bid for freedom.
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