Direction: Budd Boetticher

The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Budd Boetticher. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.


Seven Men from Now

1956 · Movie · 78 min. · United States

Direction Budd Boetticher

Cast Randolph Scott · Gail Russell · Lee Marvin · Walter Reed

Plot A former sheriff, haunted by the loss of his wife in a Wells Fargo robbery, hunts for the seven men responsible for her death. Along the way, he assists a...

7.4

1K votes

7.4

1K votes

The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond

1960 · Movie · 101 min. · United States

Direction Budd Boetticher

Cast Ray Danton · Karen Steele · Elaine Stewart · Jesse White

Plot Jack Diamond and his sickly brother arrive in prohibition New York as jewellery thieves. After a spell in jail the coldly ambitious Diamond hits on the idea of stealing from...

7.2

660 votes

7.2

660 votes

Ride Lonesome

1959 · Movie · 73 min. · United States

Direction Budd Boetticher

Cast Randolph Scott · Karen Steele · Pernell Roberts · James Best

Plot A wanted murderer, Billy John, is captured by Ben Brigade, a bounty hunter, who intends to take him to Santa Cruz to be hanged. Brigade stops at a staging post,...

7.0

1K votes

7.0

1K votes

The Tall T

1957 · Movie · 78 min. · United States

Direction Budd Boetticher

Cast Randolph Scott · Richard Boone · Maureen O'Sullivan · Skip Homeier

Plot Having lost his horse in a bet, Pat Brennan hitches a ride with a stagecoach carrying newlyweds, Willard and Doretta Mims. At the next station the coach and its passengers...

6.9

1K votes

6.9

1K votes

The Killer is Loose

1956 · Movie · 73 min. · United States

6.7

524 votes

6.7

524 votes

Comanche Station

1960 · Movie · 74 min. · United States

Direction Budd Boetticher

Cast Randolph Scott · Nancy Gates · Claude Akins · Skip Homeier

Plot In this western, a loner puts aside a ten year search for his kidnapped wife to help rescue another settler and is lead into an ambush staged by a vicious...

6.7

823 votes

6.7

823 votes

Behind Locked Doors

1948 · Movie · 62 min. · United States

Direction Budd Boetticher

Cast Lucille Bremer · Richard Carlson · Douglas Fowley · Ralf Harolde

Plot A well-known judge has become a fugitive from the police, with a large reward on his head. A reporter believes that the judge is hiding in a private sanitarium, so...

6.5

86 votes

6.5

86 votes

Decision at Sundown

1957 · Movie · 77 min. · United States

Direction Budd Boetticher

Cast Randolph Scott · John Carroll · Karen Steele · John Archer

Plot A Texan who fought in the Civil War arrives at Sundown accompanied by a friend. His intention is to get revenge on a man who happens to be the richest...

6.4

513 votes

6.4

513 votes

Horizons West

1952 · Movie · 81 min. · United States

6.3

484 votes

6.3

484 votes

The Missing Juror

1944 · Movie · 66 min. · United States

Direction Budd Boetticher

Cast Jim Bannon · Janis Carter · George Macready · Jean Stevens

Plot Jim Bannon, fresh from his radio success on I Love a Mystery, stars in this taut suspenser. The jurors of a celebrated murder case are being bumped off one by...

6.2

34 votes

6.2

34 votes

Buchanan Rides Alone

1958 · Movie · 78 min. · United States

Direction Budd Boetticher

Cast Randolph Scott · Craig Stevens · Barry Kelley · Tol Avery

Plot On his way home to West Texas, Tom Buchanan rides into the Californian border town of Agry, and into a feud between several members of the Agry family. In helping...

6.2

436 votes

6.2

436 votes

The Man From the Alamo

1953 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

6.2

824 votes

6.2

824 votes

Westbound

1959 · Movie · 72 min. · United States

6.2

242 votes

6.2

242 votes

Seminole

1953 · Movie · 82 min. · United States

6.1

506 votes

6.1

506 votes

Red Ball Express

1952 · Movie · 83 min. · United States

Direction Budd Boetticher

Cast Jeff Chandler · Alex Nicol · Charles Drake · Judith Braun

Plot A racially integrated platoon fights to overcome their differences during World War II.

5.8

30 votes

5.8

30 votes

Bullfighter and the Lady

1951 · Movie · 87 min. · United States

Direction Budd Boetticher

Cast Robert Stack · Joy Page · Gilbert Roland · Virginia Grey

Plot Johnny Regan, a U.S. citizen, goes to Mexico and takes up bullfighting as a lark, hoping to impress a Mexican beauty, Anita de la Vega. His lighthearted studying, under the...

5.8

32 votes

5.8

32 votes

The Cimarron Kid

1952 · Movie · 84 min. · United States

Direction Budd Boetticher

Cast Audie Murphy · Yvette Duguay · Beverly Tyler · James Best

Plot 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...

5.6

142 votes

5.6

142 votes

The Magnificent Matador

1955 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction Budd Boetticher

Cast Maureen O'Hara · Anthony Quinn · Manuel Rojas · Richard Denning

Plot Maureen O'Hara as the spoiled, rich, American preditor who falls head-over-heels for the brooding, tormented, about-to-retire matador, Luis Santos (Anthony Quinn) who has inexplicably run away prior to a corrida...

5.4

101 votes

5.4

101 votes

Escape in the Fog

1945 · Movie · 65 min. · United States

Direction Budd Boetticher

Cast Otto Kruger · Nina Foch · William Wright · Konstantin Shayne

Plot A nurse recovering in a hospital from a nervous breakdown keeps having dreams where she sees two men trying to murder a third. When she meets the the officer in...

5.4

52 votes

5.4

52 votes

City Beneath the Sea

1953 · Movie · 78 min. · United States

Direction Budd Boetticher

Cast Robert Ryan · Mala Powers · Anthony Quinn · Suzan Ball

Plot Divers Brad Carlton (Robert Ryan) and Tony Bartlett (Anthony Quinn) arrive in Jamaica to attempt salvage of the "Lady Luck," sunk with all hands and a million in gold. They...

5.3

46 votes

5.3

46 votes