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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Sony
EAN: 9781404969933
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Subtitled, NTSC
ISBN: 1404969934
Label: Sony Pictures
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Region Code: 99
Release Date: September 06, 2005
Running Time: 80 minutes
Sales Rank: 53660
Studio: Sony Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: February 01, 1955
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
Randolph Scott rides tall in the saddle as a powerful cattle rancher in this action-packed western. Scott who made a noteworthy contribution to this genre in the late 50's as a lean mean cowboy stars as John Stewart an Arizona rancher determined to rule his vast empire with strong willed integrity. Stewart meets with opposition however from local landowner Wick Campbell (Richard Boone) who prefers the persuasive power of the pistol to the letter of the law. Suddenly Stewart is forced to defend himself and the woman he loves Jocelyn Brando) against Campbell's renegades who are determined to ransack the town. Now Stewart must take a life-and-death stand in a rugged confrontation that pits one man of justice against the overwhelming odds of TEN WANTED MEN.System Requirements:Running Time: 79 Min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: WESTERN/MISC. Rating: NR UPC: 043396091429 Manufacturer No: 09142
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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 swan 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
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - Watchable western
Director H Bruce Humberstone specialised in detective movies and musicals and his lacklustre direction of this rugged Western may be explicable for that reason .It needed a genre specialist to lift out of the routine but watchable picture we are confronted with in Ten Wanted Men
Randolph Scott plays John Steward , a prosperous Arizona rancher who brings his lawyer brother to the area to help in the imposition of law and order.Steward's most implacable enemy is locasl saloon owner and ... Read More
Rating:  - "Ten Wanted Men (1955) ... Randolph Scott ... Columbia Pictures Classic Westerns"
Columbia Pictures presents "TEN WANTED MEN" (1955) (80 mins/Color) (Dolby digitally remastered) --- Starring Randolph Scott, Richard Boone, Jocelyn Brando, Leo Gordon, Lee Van Cleef & Skip Homeier --- Directed by H. Bruce Humberstone and released in February 1, 1955, our story line and film, A powerful rancher John Stewart, attempts to establish law and order on his vast Arizona spread without resorting to violence ... Less peacefully inclined is Stewart's chief rival Wick Campbell, who believes ... Read More
Rating:  - Underrated Gem
i don't know why anyone gives this film less than five star rating and on top of it praise the budd boetichher westerns. though boeticher films are great, i find the pre-boetciher-scott westerns the best as there are more traditional and less talky and grim than the boeticher westerns. Ten wanted men is no exception; it is fast paced, well-plotted and has plenty of intense action to keep your eyes peeled. definately one of scott's best. sometimes i find that in the scott-boeticher westerns, there's too ... Read More
Rating: - Ten Wanted Men 1954
Randolph Scott (1898-1987) rides tall in the saddle as a powerful cattle rancher in this action-packed Western , Scott how made a noteworthy contribution to this genre in the late 1950s as lean , mean cowboy , stars as John Stewart , an Arizona Rancher determined to rule his vast empire with strong-willed integrity . Stewart meets with appostions , however from local landowner Wick Campbell (Richard Boone 1917-1981) who preferes the persuasive power of the pistol to the letter of the law . Suddenly Stewart ... Read More
Rating: - Good, middlin' Scott Western
While Columbia studios' TEN WANTED MEN is not a top drawer Western like COMANCHE STATION or RIDE LONESOME of a few years later, it is never less than entertaining---the kind of "super B" feature that enthralled sagebrush-addicts back in the 1950s. Certainly this is no Budd Boetticher directed product, and it lacks his stunning, distinctive touches, but there is enough action to keep any fan glued to his TV set. Richard Boone, who appeared in a number of Randy Scott's 1950s Westerns (most notably in THE TALL ... Read More
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