Decision at Sundown (1957)
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77% of users liked it
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Decision at Sundown was one of several felicitous collaborations between star Randolph Scott and director Budd Boetticher. Scott plays a flint-eyed gunman who rides into a sleepy town to drive out local tough guy John Carroll by sundown. Scott is motivated not by justice but by revenge; years… More Decision at Sundown was one of several felicitous collaborations between star Randolph Scott and director Budd Boetticher. Scott plays a flint-eyed gunman who rides into a sleepy town to drive out local tough guy John Carroll by sundown. Scott is motivated not by justice but by revenge; years earlier, Carroll had stolen Scott's wife. The woman subsequently killed herself, and the fact that she had left Scott willingly is torturing both men, each of whom feels partially responsible for her death. As sundown approaches, the "angst" suffered by both hero and villain spreads to the rest of the townspeople, who do a lot of soul-searching while waiting for the final confrontation. Decision at Sundown truly lives up to the label "psychological western". ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Directed By
- Budd Boetticher
- Genres
- Western, Action & Adventure, Classics
Unrated,
- In Theaters
- Nov 10, 1957 Wide
Critic Reviews
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Michael E. Grost, Classic Film and Television
Remarkable look at dictatorship, revolt and non-violence in a Western town.
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Jeffrey M. Anderson, Combustible Celluloid
It works well enough to get you riled up.
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Dennis Schwartz, Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Solid Randolph Scott and Budd Boetticher revenge Western.
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Cast
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Randolph Scott
as Bart Allison
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John Carroll
as Tate Kimbrough
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Karen Steele
as Lucy Summerton
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Valerie French
as Ruby James
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Noah Beery Jr.
as Sam
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John Archer
as Dr. Storrow
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Andrew Duggan
as Sheriff Swede Hansen
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James Westerfield
as Otis
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John Litel
as Charles Summerton
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Ray Teal
as Morley Chase
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Vaughan Taylor
as Barber
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Richard Deacon
as Zaron
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H.M. Wynant
as Spanish
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Guy Wilkerson
as Abe
- Bob Steele
