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Alfonso Bedoya, Clem Bevans, Donna Martell

Randolph Scott's movie-star reputation was redeemed late in the day by Budd Boetticher's remarkable "Ranown" films in the late '50s and Sam Peckinpah's sublime Ride the High Country, Scott's sw...( read more  read more... )an song, in 1962. Ten Wanted Men typifies the pictures his career needed redeeming from--formula oaters that are workmanlike at best and suitable for recommending only to confirmed fans of the genre.

Scott plays a well-to-do rancher who sends for his lawyer brother (Lester Matthews) to help civilize his corner of the Southwest. That's enough to tick off Scott's chief rival and former protégé, Richard Boone, who gets even more irritated when Scott's nephew charms the local señorita Boone has been wooing in his heavy-handed way. His reaction is to import a passel of gunslinging plug-uglies and start making life miserable for everybody.

Boone would prove a superb adversary to Scott in The Tall T two years later, but here he just flails. Scott's character is possibly the most irritatingly self-righteous he ever played, so he scarcely bothers to play it at all. Bruce Humberstone's lax direction leaves no doubt when a stunt double has stepped in for Scott, and if a gunshot happens to fill the frame with smoke, you can count on the air being clear as a bell in the next camera angle. The only mildly interesting thing to wonder about in Ten Wanted Men (apart from exactly which 10 the title refers to) is how elements of Billy the Kid and the Lincoln County War came to be grafted onto the otherwise nondescript plot. --Richard T. Jameson

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Unrated, 89 min.

Directed by: H. Bruce Humberstone

Release Date: February 1, 1955

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DVD Release Date: September 6, 2005

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  • 339z
    October 17, 2009
    339z
    wow umn just seen this movie 4 the 1st time n think that this is a good movie 2 watch,.....its got a good cast of actors/actressess throughout this movie...i think that richard boone, randolph scott, minor watson, jocelyn brando, leo gordon, lester matthews, clam beavens, donna ...( read more)martell, alfonso bedoya play good roles/parts throughout this movie....i think that the director of this western/drama/action/adventure/classics movie had done a good job of directing this movie because you never know what 2 expect throughout this movie...this is a good western movie 2 watch n its enjoyable movie
  • 01MovieMan
    May 23, 2008
    01MovieMan
    This is a good movie
  • azahbelle
    April 7, 2007
    azahbelle
    im a sucka for a good western
  • SarahJoyFrost
    December 11, 2006
    SarahJoyFrost
    i would like to see this
  • maka112929
    October 18, 2006
    maka112929
    this was and still is sooo friggin good

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