Budd Boetticher’s ‘Ranown Westerns’ Are Complex and Ambiguous
The heroes and villains in Bud Boetticher’s Ranown Westerns are less mighty opposites than mighty complements.
The heroes and villains in Bud Boetticher’s Ranown Westerns are less mighty opposites than mighty complements.
Sergio Leone’s work might be traced back to Budd Boetticher’s Westerns just as much as to Kurosawa, and Don Siegel also owes him something – and not just because Boetticher wrote the story for Two Mules for Sister Sara.