“I had me a quiet woman once. Outside she was as calm as Sunday, but inside wild as mountain scenery.” Randolph Scott was a Hollywood Cowboy Legend, the always tall-in-the-saddle hero who helped ...

Lonesomeness, nobility, and anti-machismo: the ‘Ranown’ westerns are an underappreciated treasure of American cinema.

For nearly 40 years, Randolph Scott cultivated for himself an impressive film career. The Hollywood legend starred in everything from war pictures and musicals to intense dramas and (briefly) horror, ...

In 1950, Randolph Scott starred in the classic Western Colt .45, which followed gun salesman Steve Farrell as he gets into a heap of trouble after a gunfighter escapes from prison. While the film is ...

Budd Boetticher stretched the format of his Randolph Scott westerns into CinemaScope with this 1959 entry in the cycle, and in some respects the narrative seems drawn out as well: there is hardly any ...