Ride Lonesome

★★★★★

“Scorching lead-hot action all the way!”

1959 · 1 h 13 min

Directed by Budd Boetticher

Western

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Cast

Randolph Scott Karen Steele Pernell Roberts James Best Lee Van Cleef James Coburn

Credits

Written by: Burt Kennedy

Plot

A bounty hunter, Ben Brigade, brings a killer through hostile Apache country, aiming to use him as bait for the man who killed his wife, in a spare, tense and philosophical Western.

Sinekatalog’s take

A lean, tense and taut Western classic.Sinekatalog’s own editorial review – not a user or critic quote.

Ratings

IMDb: 7.1 / 10 (7,746 votes)
IMDb rating and vote count from the IMDb ratings dataset (October 2026). Scores change over time.

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