Budd Boetticher — Director (14)
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The Cimarron Kid (1952) WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Cimarron Kid
director: Budd Boetticher actor: Audie Murphy / Beverly Tyler …
other title: L'ultimo fuorilegge / Flucht vor dem Tode …
Audie Murphy comes into his own as a Western star in this story. Wrongly accused by crooked railroad officials of aiding a train heist by his old friends the Daltons, he joins their gang and becomes an active participant in other robberies. Betrayed by a fellow gang member, Murphy becomes a fugitive in the end. Seeking refuge at the ranch of a reformed gang member, he hopes to flee with the man's daughter to South America, but he's captured in the end and led off to jail. The girl promises to wait.
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The Magnificent Matador (1955) WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Magnificent Matador
director: Budd Boetticher actor: Maureen O'Hara / Anthony Quinn …
other title: Die Nacht gehört uns / Le brave et la belle …
Karen Harrison is a spoiled, rich, American predator who falls head-over-heels for the brooding, tormented, about-to-retire matador, Luis Santos who has inexplicably run away prior to a corrida that was to occasion the "alternativa" of a young, up-and-coming bullfighter.
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A Time for Dying (1969) WikiData IMDb TMDB
A Time for Dying
director: Budd Boetticher actor: Richard Lapp / Anne Randall …
other title: Qui tire le premier ? / Un tiempo para morir …
Passing through a town, a farm boy aspiring to be a bounty hunter rescues a woman who has been tricked into working in its brothel and the two travel towards his father's ranch.
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Behind Locked Doors (1948) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Behind Locked Doors
director: Budd Boetticher actor: Lucille Bremer / Richard Carlson …
other title: Il gorilla umano / Hinter verschlossenen Türen …
Behind the locked doors of a mental institution resides crooked politico Judge Drake, free from prosecution so long as he pretends to be crazy. To get the goods on Drake, private detective Ross Stewart has himself committed to the asylum as a patient. Meanwhile, reporter Kathy Lawrence, posing as Stewart's wife, acts as his liaison to the outside world.
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The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond (1960) IMDb TMDB
The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond
director: Budd Boetticher actor: Ray Danton / Karen Steele …
other title: Jack Diamond gangster / J.D., der Killer …
Jack Diamond and his sickly brother arrive in prohibition New York as jewelry thieves. After a spell in jail, the coldly ambitious Diamond hits on the idea of stealing from thieves himself and sets about getting close to gangster boss Arnold Rothstein to move in on his booze, girls, gambling, and drugs operations.
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The Red Ball Express (1952) WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Red Ball Express
director: Budd Boetticher actor: Jeff Chandler / Alex Nicol …
other title: L'autocolonna rossa / Unternehmen Rote Teufel …
August 1944: proceeding with the invasion of France, Patton's Third Army has advanced so far toward Paris that it cannot be supplied. To keep up the momentum, Allied HQ establishes an elite military truck route.
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Westbound (1959) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Westbound
director: Budd Boetticher actor: Randolph Scott / Virginia Mayo …
other title: L'oro della California / Messer an der Kehle …
As the Civil War spills our nation’s blood, Capt. John Hayes fights on a vital but little-known battlefront. He aims to ship gold to Union banks through a small Colorado town, defying Southern sympathizers who aim to stop him at any cost.
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Comanche Station (1960) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Comanche Station
director: Budd Boetticher actor: Randolph Scott / Nancy Gates …
other title: La valle dei mohicani / Emboscada Fatal …
A white man trades with the Comanche for the release of a female stranger and the pair cross paths with three outlaws who have their eyes on the handsome reward for bringing her home and Comanche on the warpath.