Budd Boetticher

Directing

Budd Boetticher

Born 1916-07-29 · Chicago, Illinois, United States

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.   Oscar "Budd" Boetticher, Jr. (July 29, 1916 in Chicago – November 29, 2001 in Ramona, California) was a film director during the classical period in Hollywood. He is best remembered for the series of low-budget Westerns he made in the late 1950s, starring Randolph Scott. Known for their sparse style, dramatic rocky locations near Lone Pine, California, and recurring stories of a lone man seeking vengeance amidst a brutal and abstract landscape, the films have, decades after their release, come to be known as some of the most significant Westerns ever made, often compared to the works of existential writers or to narratives from the Old Testament. Until 2008, only Seven Men From Now had received a special edition DVD release, and the remainder of Boetticher's most acclaimed films, including Ride Lonesome, The Tall T, Comanche Station, Decision at Sundown, and Buchanan Rides Alone, which were once unavailable, had a DVD release on November 4, 2008 as the Budd Boetticher Box Set. Description above from the Wikipedia article  Budd Boetticher, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Acting credits

Tequila Sunrise poster
6.1

In a seaside California town, best friends Mac and Nick are on opposite sides of the law. Mac is a former drug dealer trying to clean up his act, while Nick is a high-profile detective trying to take down a Mexican drug lord named Carlos. Soon Nick's loyalties are put to the test when he begins an affair with restaurateur Jo Ann -- a love interest of Mac's -- unwittingly leading his friend into a police-orchestrated trap.

Tequila Sunrise

1988

Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western poster
7.0

Interviews and film clips re-create the glorious history of the American western.

Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western

1997

Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That poster
7.0

Documentary about filmmaker Budd Boetticher.

Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That

2005

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8.3

Documentary about the making of the John Wayne film The Alamo (1960). Included are behind-the-scenes photos and footage of the actual production of the film, clips from it and interviews with members of the cast, crew and local residents in Brackettville, TX, where it was filmed.

John Wayne's 'The Alamo'

1992

Internet Love poster
10.0

Starting out as e-mail pen pals, Daniel and Laura soon fall in love. Only problem is that she lives in Germany and he lives in Los Angeles. When they finally arrange to meet in person, they discover that there is no chemistry between them.

Internet Love

1998

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Documentary about American gangster movies.

Hollywood Gangster

2008

Spine Tingler! The William Castle Story poster
7.8

Chronicles the last great American showman, filmmaker William Castle, a master of ballyhoo who became a brand name in movie horror with his outrageous audience participation gimmicks.

Spine Tingler! The William Castle Story

2007

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7.0

When Robert and Rosemarie Stack (Robert starred in Boetticher's "The Bullfighter and the Lady") visit Mary and Budd Boetticher to attend the Boettichers' showing of their exquisite Portuguese Lusitano and Spanish Andalusian horses, Budd Boetticher takes the opportunity to narrate the proud history of these outstanding horses and their centrality to the development of the "rejoneador" (a bullfighter on horseback) and the kind of demanding training necessary to bring both horses and riders to performance perfection.

My Kingdom For...

1985

Good Luck, Mr. Yates poster
6.5

A 4F military school teacher's lie about being accepted for active duty causes problems on the home front.

Good Luck, Mr. Yates

1943

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Budd Boetticher talks about the Ranown Cycle, a collection of low-budget westerns of the late 1950s.

Budd Boetticher on the Ranown Cycle

2018

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A documentary about American film director Budd Boetticher

Budd Boetticher: A Study in Self-Determination

1971

Western Legenden - Made in Hollywood poster
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Western Legenden - Made in Hollywood

2009

Made in Hollywood: The World of Budd Boetticher poster
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Documentary about the director Budd Boetticher.

Made in Hollywood: The World of Budd Boetticher

2017

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A documentary about director Budd Boetticher.

Visiting Budd Boetticher

2000

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10.0

A 1989 documentary regarding filmmaker & maverick man Budd Boetticher. The man who lived and breathed bullfighting, filmmaking, purported madness and, ultimately, a peace of mind.

Budd Boetticher: One on One

1989

Behind the camera

Ride Lonesome poster
6.7

On the way to pick up the bounty on a wanted murderer, a bounty hunter stops at a staging post where he is forced to continue his journey with two outlaws who want the murderer for their own reasons and a recently-widowed woman, with the murderer's brother and his men in hot pursuit.

Ride Lonesome

1959

Ride Lonesome poster
6.7

On the way to pick up the bounty on a wanted murderer, a bounty hunter stops at a staging post where he is forced to continue his journey with two outlaws who want the murderer for their own reasons and a recently-widowed woman, with the murderer's brother and his men in hot pursuit.

Ride Lonesome

1959

The Red Ball Express poster
6.0

August 1944: proceeding with the invasion of France, Patton's Third Army has advanced so far toward Paris that it cannot be supplied. To keep up the momentum, Allied HQ establishes an elite military truck route.

The Red Ball Express

1952

The Tall T poster
7.0

An independent former ranch foreman and an heiress are kidnapped by a trio of ruthless outlaws.

The Tall T

1957

7 Men from Now poster
6.8

A former sheriff relentlessly pursuing the 7 men who murdered his wife in Arizona crosses paths with a couple heading to California.

7 Men from Now

1956

The Man from the Alamo poster
6.6

During the war for Texas independence, one man leaves the Alamo before the end (chosen by lot to help others' families) but is too late to accomplish his mission, and is branded a coward. Since he cannot now expose a gang of turncoats, he infiltrates them instead. Can he save a wagon train of refugees from Wade's Guerillas?

The Man from the Alamo

1953

The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond poster
6.1

Jack Diamond and his sickly brother arrive in prohibition New York as jewelry thieves. After a spell in jail, the coldly ambitious Diamond hits on the idea of stealing from thieves himself and sets about getting close to gangster boss Arnold Rothstein to move in on his booze, girls, gambling, and drugs operations.

The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond

1960

Comanche Station poster
6.7

A white man trades with the Comanche for the release of a female stranger and the pair cross paths with three outlaws who have their eyes on the handsome reward for bringing her home and Comanche on the warpath.

Comanche Station

1960

Comanche Station poster
6.7

A white man trades with the Comanche for the release of a female stranger and the pair cross paths with three outlaws who have their eyes on the handsome reward for bringing her home and Comanche on the warpath.

Comanche Station

1960

East of Sumatra poster
5.8

Duke Mullane, manager of a Malayan tin mine, goes to a little-known island to open a new mine in the jungle. Initially, the natives there are friendly, especially dancer Minyora...who proves to be affianced to local ruler King Kiang. Alas, a series of unfortunate incidents changes Kiang's attitude to hostility, and Duke is stranded with his crew, Minyora, and his old flame Lory...who's now engaged to his boss!

East of Sumatra

1953

Buchanan Rides Alone poster
6.6

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.

Buchanan Rides Alone

1958

Blades of the Musketeers poster
8.0

In 1625 France, D'Artagnan joins the king's musketeers, meets three new friends - Athos, Porthos and Aramis - among them and, together, the four quickly find themselves embroiled in court intrigue with Prime Minister Richelieu attempting to sabotage the congenial relationship existing between France and England. Originally produced as a 60-minute episode of THE MAGNAVOX THEATER on CBS as THE THREE MUSKETEERS. This has the distinction of being the first movie specifically made for TV. Later retitled and released theatrically.

Blades of the Musketeers

1950

The Killer Is Loose poster
6.7

A savings-and-loan bank is robbed; later, a police wiretap identifies meek bank teller Leon Poole as the inside man. In capturing him, detective Sam Wagner accidentally kills Poole's young wife, and at his trial Poole swears vengeance against Wagner. Poole begins his plans to get revenge when he escapes his captors.

The Killer Is Loose

1956

Bullfighter and the Lady poster
6.3

An American takes up bullfighting to impress the ladies but learns to respect the sport.

Bullfighter and the Lady

1951

Horizons West poster
6.3

Brothers Dan and Neil Hammond return to Texas after the Civil War. Ambitious Dan turns to rustling and then shady land deals to build an empire. Being held for a murder, he is rescued from a lynch mob by Neil, who is now the Marshal, but there is eventually a falling out between the brothers, good triumphing over evil.

Horizons West

1952

Decision at Sundown poster
6.3

A man and his partner arrive at a small Western town to kill its most powerful man because the former blames him for his wife's death.

Decision at Sundown

1957

Behind Locked Doors poster
6.3

Behind the locked doors of a mental institution resides crooked politico Judge Drake, free from prosecution so long as he pretends to be crazy. To get the goods on Drake, private detective Ross Stewart has himself committed to the asylum as a patient. Meanwhile, reporter Kathy Lawrence, posing as Stewart's wife, acts as his liaison to the outside world.

Behind Locked Doors

1948

The Magnificent Matador poster
6.0

Karen Harrison is a spoiled, rich, American predator who falls head-over-heels for the brooding, tormented, about-to-retire matador, Luis Santos who has inexplicably run away prior to a corrida that was to occasion the "alternativa" of a young, up-and-coming bullfighter.

The Magnificent Matador

1955

Seminole poster
5.6

Lance Caldwell, a cavalry lieutenant, recounts his efforts to make peace with the Seminole Indian tribe, under an evil major.

Seminole

1953

Wings of the Hawk poster
5.7

Gringo miner Gallager is caught up in the Mexican revolution of 1910-11 when corrupt administrator Ruiz appropriates his mine. Gallager saves the life of guerilla leader Raquel, then finds there's a price on his head; he becomes romantically involved with her in the course of a series of rescues and ambushes, leading up to Orozco's march on Ciudad Juarez.

Wings of the Hawk

1953

The Cimarron Kid poster
6.1

Audie Murphy comes into his own as a Western star in this story. Wrongly accused by crooked railroad officials of aiding a train heist by his old friends the Daltons, he joins their gang and becomes an active participant in other robberies. Betrayed by a fellow gang member, Murphy becomes a fugitive in the end. Seeking refuge at the ranch of a reformed gang member, he hopes to flee with the man's daughter to South America, but he's captured in the end and led off to jail. The girl promises to wait.

The Cimarron Kid

1952

Westbound poster
6.4

As the Civil War spills our nation’s blood, Capt. John Hayes fights on a vital but little-known battlefront. He aims to ship gold to Union banks through a small Colorado town, defying Southern sympathizers who aim to stop him at any cost.

Westbound

1959

City Beneath the Sea poster
5.1

Two adventures dive for treasure off the coast of Jamaica.

City Beneath the Sea

1953

A Time for Dying poster
6.3

Passing through a town, a farm boy aspiring to be a bounty hunter rescues a woman who has been tricked into working in its brothel and the two travel towards his father's ranch.

A Time for Dying

1969