Ride Lonesome

Ben Brigade is a bounty hunter escorting a captured murderer, Billy John, to Santa Cruz, where the man is to be hanged. On the road he stops at a stagecoach station, saves the station master's wife from an Indian attack, and continues the journey with two outlaws who want Billy for themselves. A promise of amnesty for whoever delivers him gives them their motive. Billy's brother Frank is also riding after the group, and Brigade has reasons of his own for wanting Frank to catch up.

Ride Lonesome was released in 1959 and runs 73 minutes. It is a Western produced by Columbia Pictures and Ranown Pictures Corp., directed by Budd Boetticher from a screenplay by Burt Kennedy, and produced by Randolph Scott with Boetticher. It is the fifth of the seven Westerns Boetticher directed, sitting between Decision at Sundown and Comanche Station. Scott stars as Ben Brigade, with Karen Steele as Mrs. Carrie Lane, Pernell Roberts as Sam Boone, James Best as Billy John, Lee Van Cleef as Frank and James Coburn as Whitt.

On IMDb the film holds 7.1 out of 10 from around 7,500 votes, while on TMDB it has 6.7 from a much smaller number of ratings. A critics' rating of 9.2 from ten reviews places it well above both audience scores.