The Tall T (1957) (The Captives)

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"Always fun to see a well adapted Elmore Leonard -story. Men are kind, the villains are victims of circumstance who made bad calls, and the action is explosive (in whatever sense it can be in the 50s before that Manchurian Candidate kung fu fight). "

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"Director Budd Boetticher was a master of stillness, and his particular stylistic gift—a sturdy, static group shot containing two or three people, often arranged in triangle formation across the widescreen frame, and plenty of unresolved tension—gets a thorough workout in The Tall T, the terse second entry in Boetticher’s “Ranown” cycle of films starring Randolph Scott. Staged largely against a cluster of boulders in the desert, the film finds Scott’s lone horseman stoically weighing "