‘Ride Lonesome’: Trading One Freedom for Another

Randolph Scott plays a bounty hunter who has his reasons for bringing an outlaw to trial.
‘Ride Lonesome’: Trading One Freedom for Another
Ben Brigade (Randolph Scott), in "Ride Lonesome." Columbia Pictures
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NR | 1h 13m | Western | 1959

With miles of open country in every direction, it’s hard to think of any man in the Wild West who didn’t feel utterly free. Think again, says screenwriter Burt Kennedy. In this riveting screenplay, every man wants to buy freedom from something and figures he has just the thing that’ll buy it for him.

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