Buchanan Rides Again is a 1958 western

Western (genre)

The Western is a genre of various visual arts, such as film, television, radio, literature, painting and others. Westerns are devoted to telling stories set primarily in the latter half of the 19th century in the American Old West, hence the name. Some Westerns are set as early as the Battle of...

 film directed by Budd Boetticher

Budd Boetticher

Oscar "Budd" Boetticher, Jr. was a film director during the classical period in Hollywood most famous for the series of low-budget Westerns he made in the late 1950s starring Randolph Scott.Known for their sparse style, dramatic rocky locations near Lone Pine, California, and recurring stories of...

 and starring Randolph Scott

Randolph Scott

Randolph Scott was an American film actor whose career spanned from 1928 to 1962. As a leading man for all but the first three years of his cinematic career, Scott appeared in a variety of genres, including social dramas, crime dramas, comedies, musicals , adventure tales, war films, and even a few...

. It is based on the 1956 William Ard (writing as Jonas Ward) (1922-1960) novel The Name's Buchanan.

Plot

On his way home to West Texas

Texas

Texas is the second largest U.S. state by both area and population, and the largest state by area in the contiguous United States.The name, based on the Caddo word "Tejas" meaning "friends" or "allies", was applied by the Spanish to the Caddo themselves and to the region of their settlement in...

, Tom Buchanan (Randolph Scott) rides into the Californian border town of Agry, and into a feud between several members of the Agry family. In helping out a Mexican seeking revenge on one of them, Buchanan finds himself against the whole family.

Cast

• Randolph Scott
  Randolph Scott
  Randolph Scott was an American film actor whose career spanned from 1928 to 1962. As a leading man for all but the first three years of his cinematic career, Scott appeared in a variety of genres, including social dramas, crime dramas, comedies, musicals , adventure tales, war films, and even a few...
  
   - Tom Buchanan
• Craig Stevens
  Craig Stevens (actor)
  Craig Stevens was an American motion picture and television actor.-Early and personal life:Born Gail Shikles, Jr., in Liberty, Missouri, his father was a high school teacher....
  
   - Abe Carbo
• Barry Kelley
  Barry Kelley
  Barry Kelley was an actor on Broadway in the 1930s and '40s and in movies during the 1940s, '50s, and '60s. The heavy-set actor created the role of Ike in Oklahoma! on Broadway....
  
   - Lew Agry
• Tol Avery
  Tol Avery
  Tol Avery was an American film and television character actor with more than a hundred screen appearances between 1950 and 1974...
  
   - Judge Simon Agry
• Peter Whitney
  Peter Whitney
  Peter Whitney, was an American actor in film and television. Born as Peter King Engle in Long Branch, New Jersey, Whitney's corpulent, heavy build qualified him to play villains in many Hollywood movies in the 1940s and 1950s.From the late 1950s, he was more prolific playing character roles in...
  
   - Amos Agry
• Manuel Rojas - Juan de la Vega
• L. Q. Jones
  L. Q. Jones
  L.Q. Jones is an American character actor and film director, known for his work in the films of Sam Peckinpah.-Life and career:...
  
   - Pecos Hill
• Robert Anderson - Waldo Peck
• Joe De Santis
  Joe De Santis
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   -Esteban Gomez
• William Leslie - Roy Agry
• Jennifer Holden
  Jennifer Holden
  Jennifer Holden , born in Chicago, Illinois, is an actress who appeared in such films as Jailhouse Rock, Buchanan Rides Alone, and Gang War.-See also:**...
  
   - K. T.
• Nacho Galindo - Nacho

DVD release

In 2008 a DVD box set of five Budd Boetticher films starring Randolph Scott was released. Along with Buchanan Rides Alone the set includes Comanche Station

Comanche Station

Comanche Station is a 1960 American CinemaScope western film. This was the last of Budd Boetticher's late 1950s Ranown Cycle western films starring Randolph Scott.-Plot:...

, Decision at Sundown

Decision at Sundown

Decision at Sundown is a 1957 western directed by Budd Boetticher and starring Randolph Scott.One of seven Boetticher/Scott western collaborations that also includes Seven Men from Now, The Tall T, Buchanan Rides Alone, Westbound, Ride Lonesome and Comanche Station.-Plot synopsis:Bart Allison ...

, Ride Lonesome

Ride Lonesome

Ride Lonesome is a a 1959 Eastmancolor film; one of Budd Boetticher's "Ranown" westerns starring Randolph Scott and part of a series of films that began with Seven Men from Now...

and The Tall T

The Tall T

The Tall T is a 1957 western film directed by Budd Boetticher. It stars Randolph Scott, Richard Boone, Maureen O'Sullivan and Henry Silva. The film was adapted by Burt Kennedy from an Elmore Leonard short story, "The Captives."...

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