Ride Lonesome

by Kirk Ellis Narrated by Justin Price

Overview

Ride Lonesome, the fifth film in the "Ranown cycle," is both the best and most representative of the whole series, which has been called "the most remarkable convergence of artistic achievement in the history of low-budget moviemaking." Director Bud Boetticher captures the alienation and loneliness of an America faced with the Cold War and the daily threat of nuclear annihilation. Shot in seventeen days for under a half-million dollars, Ride Lonesome is a masterpiece of cinematic minimalism.



Veteran screenwriter Kirk Ellis brilliantly unpacks the themes, narrative, visual language, and editing in this seminal film. In Ride Lonesome Ellis not only shows how this one film embodies a turning point for the Western, but he also explores the unique vision and contributions of director Boetticher and his writing partner Burt Kennedy.

Editorial Reviews

From the Publisher

"Ride Lonesome offers fresh insight into the careers of screenwriter/director Burt Kennedy and legendary film auteur Budd Boetticher, as well as a blow-by-blow account of the making of Ride Lonesome, one of the great American films. It is essential reading for anyone interested in Western movies."—W. K. Stratton, author of The Wild Bunch: Sam Peckinpah, a Revolution in Hollywood, and the Making of a Legendary Film

"Kirk Ellis provides an accessible and erudite account of how, in a perfectly aligned set of creative associations, the filmmakers came to produce Ride Lonesome, one of the truly great Westerns. For anyone interested in Budd Boetticher or the genre more generally, this is an essential study."—Peter Stanfield, coeditor of "Un-American" Hollywood: Politics and Film in the Blacklist Era

Product Details

BN ID:	2940160273105
Publisher:	Tantor Audio
Publication date:	01/30/2024
Edition description:	Unabridged

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