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Storyline

Passing through a border town, a man is caught up in a Mexican's murder of a member of the town's most powerful family.

Released

1958-08-01
Revenue

n/a
Budget

n/a
Runtime

1hr 20m
Genre

Western
Status

Released
Language

English
6.8
Production

Producers-Actors Corporation, Scott-Brown Productions

Crew

Budd Boetticher

Director

Charles Lang

Screenplay

Harry Joe Brown

Producer

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texan border town

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A Review by John Chard 6.5

Written by John Chard on 2014-06-28

There's Aggro In Agry. Making his way home to Texas, Tom Buchanan stops off at the little town of Agry for rest and refreshments. Quickly... read more

A Review by Wuchak 4

Written by Wuchak on 2022-03-19

_**A rare clunker from the Boetticher/Scott team**_ A mirthful gunman from West Texas (Randolph Scott) wanders into a border town in So... read more

_**A rare clunker from the Boetticher/Scott team**_ A mirthful gunman from West Texas (Randolph Scott) wanders into a border town in SoCal where feuding family members run the town (Barry Kelley, Tol Avery and Peter Whitney) and threaten to string him up for accessory to murder. Craig Stevens, Manuel Rojas and L.Q. Jones are also on hand. "Buchanan Rides Alone" (1958) is one of five Westerns from 1956-1960 written by Burt Kennedy, directed by Budd Boetticher and starring Randolph Scott. The others are: “7 Men from now,” “The Tall T,” “Ride Lonesome” and “Comanche Station.” Two additional films omit writer Kennedy from the equation: “Decision at Sundown” and “Westbound.” A little cult has formed around these Westerns and most are first-rate despite some not having the biggest budgets. I’ve seen four of ’em and like them all, except this one. It’s based on the first book of the Buchanan paperback series, started by Jonas Ward (aka William Ard) and continued by other authors after his death. Buchanan in print is a happy-go-lucky wanderer in the Old West with a tongue-and-cheek tone. The movie starts off entertaining enough with Scott jovial and confident in a decidedly unfriendly Southwestern town, but the second half devolves into tedious writing with absurd back-and-forth storytelling (he’s captured; he escapes; he’s captured; he escapes), not to mention at least one glaring plot hole in a life-or-death situation. Jennifer Holden is notable as the lone female, but little is done with her presence. This is a one-dimensional dude flick through and through. It’s not all bad. Like I said, the first half works well enough, there are some amusing scenes/lines, most of the cast is good, the music’s great, and the Arizona locations with saguaro cacti are fine. The bad writing sinks it, however. Kennedy wrote the script based on Ward’s book, but it was lost in translation. The film runs 1 hour, 19 minutes, and was shot in Old Tucson, Arizona, and wilderness parts nearby. GRADE: C-

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A Review by John Chard

There's Aggro In Agry. Making his way home to Texas, Tom Buchanan stops off at the little town of Agry for rest and refreshments. Quickly finding that the town is run by the family Agry itself, Buchanan falls foul of one of them straight...

A Review by John Chard 6.5

Written by John Chard on 2014-06-28

A Review by Wuchak 4

Written by Wuchak on 2022-03-19

_**A rare clunker from the Boetticher/Scott team**_ A mirthful gunman from West Texas (Randolph Scott) wanders into a border town in SoCal where feuding family members run the town (Barry Kelley,...