Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. The purpose of the scene is to depict Annies growing attraction to the distant, emotionally repressed Stride. Back home my mom would tell my dad to read me a story to put me to sleep. Noah Berry Jr., Karen Steele, and John Carroll. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. DECISION AT SUNDOWN (1957) is an American western film directed by Bud Boetticher and starring Randolph Scott. One cannot imagine Seven Men From Now, The Tall T, Ride Lonesome and Comanche Station at the Iverson Ranch or the studio backlot. When the minister asks if anyone objects to the union, Bart speaks up and asks Kimbrough if he remembers Sabine Pass and a girl named Mary. Tuesday February 28. Occasionally, however, directors would reverse the angle and film towards the bleak Inyo Mountains as director Ida Lupino and cinematographer Nicholas Musuraca did to emphasise the harsh world of their film noir, The Hitch-Hiker (1953). Watched Daniel and Roy return home with stolen horses, including a wild stallion, Black Midnight. Information Studio Columbia Pictures Corporation Genre Western Released 1957 Run Time 1 hr 17 min Rated PG Region of Origin United States Languages Original Audio English Audio and Subtitles . Yet the terrain, whatever its qualities, was never benign and characters perished both within the Alabama Hills and without. Click here to make a donation. Restored by UCLA Film & Television Archive. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); Im Eliseo Figueroa Jr. and youre not. John Carroll Tate Kimbrough With the odds now evened, Bart emerges from the stable for a showdown with the sheriff. Seven Men from Now and The Tall T begin in relatively lush settings before moving to the desert. Theres sand, theres rivers, its made for motion pictures. Colombia Pictures Corp. Producer: Harry Joe Brown. And bleeds it dry of any genuine semblance of honest to God character. Valerie French Ruby James Cast: Randolph Scott, John Carroll, Karen Steele, Valerie French, Noah Beery Jr. To report problems, broken links, or comment on the website, please contact support, Copyright 2023 UCLA Film & Television Archive. Boetticher really was an absolute craftsman when it came to the Western and I think there are echoes of his work in the Spaghettis and even in Peckinpah's stuff too, so it's a shame that he isn't as revered and appreciated as much as those. Sundown (Trailer Ufficiale HD) . My dad spoke fluent English with an accent but hed had a stint in the army and had mastered the language. Sundown at Granada. Some. But under circumstances like these the truth will come out and the truth is seldom what we think. The Town That Dreaded Sundown (1976) - Clip: Dawn Wells on The Town That Dreaded Sundown. His most recent book is Encyclopedia of American Film Serials (McFarland, 2017). Just do yourself a favor and stay away from DECISION AT SUNDOWN. In the films best sequence Scott follows Daniel into the Hills, thereby providing the motivation for Boetticher and cinematographer William Sickner to board a camera truck and film Daniel riding swiftly through the Hills with the snow-capped Sierra Nevada mountains in the background. Of the collaborations between Scott and Boetticher this I think is the worst. Decision at Sundown is a 1957 American Western film directed by Budd Boetticher and starring Randolph Scott. At first you think he is a white-hat, riding into town to free it from corruption, a man set against a town. Kimbrough, the self-appointed king of Sundown, readies for his wedding while his long-time mistress, Ruby James, voices her feelings of rejection and betrayal. Prior to the opening credits, the following written statement appears onscreen: "This >>, The film opens as the name ROCKY pans across the screen, filling the frame. This one is a bit darker than most. Both men are excited by the return to the district of widow Martha Baxter (Fay Baker) and her daughter Cindy (Lyn Thomas) and the film focuses on Scotts awkward courtship of Cindy, a relationship that is threatened by the return of Bill Jordans long lost son Daniel (Rand Brooks) and his crooked partner Roy (Gordon Jones). Boetticher confirms Masters assessment in the very next scene as Annie and Brigade tenderly address each other at night. Shout! The most romantic/lyrical moment in Boettichers Lone Pine films is a brief scene between Annie Greer, the wife of John Greer (Walter Reed) and Stride as he assists Annie in hanging clothes on a makeshift clothesline. Ravenously hungry, Sam walks out into the street in search of a meal, dropping his gun belt at the sheriffs orders. Comanche Station Among them Caleta Beach in Acapulco, Mexico. While Boetticher utilized the rivers and river basins, the timbered areas as well as the sand dunes at nearby Olancha (the Indian attack in Seven Men from Now), it was the Alabama Hills that dominated geography and texture of his films. Doors 9:00pm, Start 9:30pm. A shoot-out in the church puts the wedding on hold . Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Sundown SUNDOWN TOWN E 9 Original western webisode S. There's a doctor character who serves as kind of a Greek chorus to handhold the audience through the morality play that enfolds. Most low budget westerns in the 1940s and 1950s were filmed at the Iverson Ranch or the Corriganville Movie Ranch, locations less than an hour drive from the studio. Oct The movie is small. The expansive valleys and extensive network of flat areas within the Hills gave directors and cinematographers the opportunity to film spectacular action sequences with the use of fast moving camera trucks able to travel along a network of dusty roads, such as Movie Road, to film riders, wagons and stagecoaches moving at breakneck speed. The tone of this scene, with its subtle suggestion of longing and regret, contain tinges of a moment in The Searchers when the Reverend Captain Samuel Johnston Clayton (Ward Bond) notices Martha Edwards (Dorothy Jordan) gently caressing the army uniform of her husbands brother, Ethan Edwards (John Wayne). In those days they were ten cents, a quick read, you could fold them and put them in your pocket, and when you finished you threw them away. Principal photography commenced on May 2, 1960, getting wrapped up shortly after that. 9:09. Csar Albarrn-Torres Amanda Barbour Tara Judah Abel Muoz-Hnonin Fiona Villella. 53:52. Sundown Western TV S S1 E2 OVERLAND TRAIL TO SUNDOWN. Orson Welles's onscreen credit >>. In Black Midnight McDowall plays the gangly Scott Jordan who lives on a struggling ranch with his uncle, Bill Jordan (Damian OFlynn). Bart Allison, a stony man bent on revenge, rides into the town of Sundown with his old friend Sam on the very day that the target of his ire, Tate Kimbrough, is to marry Lucy Summerton, the town belle. So maybe you didnt lose anything that was really very worthwhile., Bartender: Doc, if youd been tending bar as long as I have, you wouldnt expect so much out of the human race., John Litel as Charles Summerton, trying to get Allison to leave town so his daughter man marry the richest man around in Decision at Sundown (1957), John Archer as Dr. Storrow, wondering if Bart Allison really can stand up to Tate Kimbrough while bartender Otis (James Westerfield) looks on in Decision at Sundown (1957), Ray Teal as Morley Chase, a rancher who might help Bart Allison even the odds in Decision at Sundown (1957), Karen Steele as Lucy Summerton, surprised to have her wedding interrupted as her father (John Litel) looks on in Decision at Sundown (1957), Valerie French as Ruby James, accompanied by Dr. Storrow (John Archer) and insisting on sitting in the front pew to watch her lover marry another woman in Decision at Sundown (1957), Randolph Scott as Bart Allison, taking cover in a stable as the hunter becomes the hunted in Decision at Sundown (1957). Read Reviews | Rate Theater. Come chill with the Dallas Observer street team for Movies at Sundown! I rate the others I've seen so far higher, although that is no slight against this as it was still pretty good and I'll give it props for presenting a different sort of story (based on a novel) than expected. After strapping on his gun, Bart goes to the wedding, stopping along the way for a drink at the saloon. This was all his fault and he knew it. I thank you for taking time from your busy lives to sit and chat with me. To make matters worse John Carroll as Tate Kimbrough is lame as well. This film from 1957 was the third in the series, and one that Boetticher considered one of his lesser films, but from the moment that Randolph Scott and Noah Beery Jr entered the town of Sundown, there isn't a wasted second of film where something isn't happening. 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At that point he stopped throwing them out and I had a comic book collection even though I still didnt know how to read. I remember being so excited the first day of school for the first grade. Made by fans in Aotearoa New Zealand. I thought it was like magic poof! Maybe everything he says is on the nose, but it's just so damn well written that the bluntness of the delivery is forgivable. While his dialogue exchanges with an assortment of colourful villains were abrupt on his part, his subtle facial gestures readily conveyed his (low) opinion of them. A fear that takes over a whole town, by name of Sundown. Decision at Sundown is the second film in this collaboration. It is filmed by the camera truck travelling parallel to the wagon and the Indians that, in one startling movement, pulls ahead of the wagon and suddenly cuts across in front of it to show the horses, at full tilt, heading towards the camera. Scott's character Bart Allison is certainly all of those things, a man who's harboured a desire to kill for three long years, and has finally found the man at the centre of all his rage, John Carroll's Tate Kimbrough, and it's his wedding day to boot. They are also matched in quality by similarly themed westerns such as A Lawless Street (1955), directed by Joseph H. Lewis and starring Randolph Scott. It's been an enjoyable trek, one that over the last few weeks has seen me delve back into the Western genre with my first experience of director Anthony Mann, Gary Cooper and Randolph Scott, and also director Budd Boetticher. And this went on for years. Dcisions rationnelles, dcisions politiques, dcisions sans prise de tte [Thomas Durand] 21:08. Noah Berry Jr., Karen Steele, and John Carroll. Established in Melbourne (Australia) in 1999, Cruel Weapons: On the Music Video Collaborations of Bob Dylan and Nash Edgerton. You got a reason? Boetticher certainly had a reason. Made by fans in Aotearoa New Zealand. And my interests in literary science fiction and fantasy expanded to include television and movies. Before the opening cast and >>, The following dedication appears in the opening credits: For nearly forty years this story has given faithful service to the Young in Heart; and Time has been powerless to >>, Working titles for this film were Black Irish , If I Die Before I Wake and Take This Woman . As a whole, though it starts very,, The first of these Budd Boetticher/Randolph Scott Westerners that hasn't really worked for me. Once again we're in deeply ambiguous territory that is of course deeply satisfying to watch. Virginia Mayo and Joel McCrea meet a tragic end in this 1949 Western directed by Raoul Walsh and based on his 1941 film, "High Sierra." He gives such an unusual performance. This is okay he doesnt have to play a saint in every movie but he acts as if he doesnt even like himself. 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