I was never a Randolph Scott fan. Even today if I see a western starring Randolph Scott, I won’t watch it. I really love westerns, but he just doesn’t do it for me.
The Searchers was a good western but the best is The Wild Bunch. “Bloody” Sam Peckinpah knew how to to shoot a western.
You’d do it for Randolph Scott. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVGFGmoltDs
Gail Russell, who plays Annie, was one of the most beautiful women on film, but Hollywood chewed her up and spit her out. She was in the full grip of alcoholism when the movie was made, and it shows on her face and in her increasingly frail frame.
Great movie! It has one of the most memorable gunfight/climaxes I can remember. I won’t spoil it for you. If you’ve seen it, you know what I’m talking about.
Love Randolph Scott Westerns! Got many of the best on DVD!
” John Ford’s The Searchers, probably one of the greatest westerns ever made,”
Always heavily overrated for some odd reason and nowhere near the greatest western ever made. It’s not even close to the best John Wayne western. The story is a massive deviation from the Cynthia Parker story. But we got a good Buddy Holly sing from a line in it.
Later made western, The Missouri Breaks, a 1976 American Western film
starring Marlon Brando and Jack Nicholson, could fit that category.
Clayton Moore’s home was just down the street, and up a couple of blocks from where I grew up. Never met him, but we all knew where he lived. (unlike our politicians - why is that?)