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The Tall T (1957)
Topic Started: Nov 6 2008, 09:18 PM (284 Views)
Laughing Gravy
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Randolph Scott and Maureen O'Sullivan stumble into a stagecoach robbery and are held prisoner by Richard Boone and a pair of bullet-happy gunslingers in this film from the new Budd Boetticher collection.

A very entertaining, suspensful, and enjoyable B-Western from the late '50s. I've always heard adjectives like "sparse" to describe the Boetticher/Scott collaborations, and this is certainly a spare, taut little tale without an extra shot, spare line of dialog, or meaningless movement in it. Gripping and fun; Boone is the most dangerous of the three desperados and he never shoots anybody; he just stays coiled like a snake. Scott is excellent, and O'Sullivan has a thankless part that's not without interest. The film on DVD looks very good to great, and there is plenty of bonus material. I liked it a lot.
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Boone truly is outstandingly villainous in TALL T.
2nd favorite Boone performance in a film; 1st fave Boone performance is in HOMBRE.
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Gravy...I'd be interested in reading your take on "Ride Lonesone" when you get to it.
I saw both "Tall T" and "Ride Lonesome" on the big screen and love both of them.
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I just found out that The Tall T was originally released with Hellcats of the Navy. WOW. Now THERE'S a future drive-in double feature for FNF...
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My husband is looking for the paperback THE TALL T AND OTHER STORIES that was a collection of western stories in an attempt to cash in on the motion picture. If anyone comes across it, let me know. He found it once at a pulp and paper convention but the vendor, knowing he wanted it badly, ignored the $5 sticker price and claimed the price was $20. When my husband said it was marked $5, they took the sticker off and said that was mislabeled.
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shelbyvinje
Nov 9 2008, 01:04 PM
My husband is looking for the paperback THE TALL T AND OTHER STORIES that was a collection of western stories in an attempt to cash in on the motion picture. If anyone comes across it, let me know. He found it once at a pulp and paper convention but the vendor, knowing he wanted it badly, ignored the $5 sticker price and claimed the price was $20. When my husband said it was marked $5, they took the sticker off and said that was mislabeled.
THE COMPLETE WESTERN STORIES OF ELMORE LEONARD
by Elmore Leonard - Fiction - 2004 - 528 pages
Published by HarperCollins, 2004
ISBN 0060724250, 9780060724252
528 pages
Begins with Elmore Leonard's first five shorts, including
"The Captives," filmed as THE TALL T.

This story is also available in the collection THE TONTO WOMAN AND OTHER WESTERN STORIES from Delacorte Press in hardback and in a cheaper oversized paperback form.
In addition to the "The Captives, the short story "3:10 To Yuma" is also included. Leonard's western stories are nothing like the work of Louis L'Amour or any other western writers. They are all Hardboiled tales set in the old west ...I highly recommend this volume.

Very clean copies of the Delacorte Press anthology is often availabe on eBay.
Edited by Mantan, Nov 9 2008, 07:15 PM.
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