TCM airs 8 Budd Boetticher movies today plus slideshow with lots of Randolph Scott

June 25, 4:01 AMNY Classic Movies ExaminerCliff Aliperti

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Randolph Scott, star of 4 of today's Budd Boetticher
movies, on 1973 John Fords Cowboy Kings postcard

TCM airs 8 Budd Boetticher movies today plus slideshow with lots of Randolph Scott

Turner Classic Movies (TCM) airs 8 Budd Boetticher movies plus a documentary about Boetticher today, Thursday, June 25. Play word association and mention Boetticher to film buffs and most will quickly link the B-director to Randolph Scott--TCM does so today with 4 of Boetticher's Westerns starring Scott airing between 11:30 am and 5:30 pm. But TCM extends beyond the Scott Westerns to air "Bullfighter and the Lady" as well as some of Boetticher lesser seen B's.

The complete schedule follows and then at the bottom of the page you'll find a slideshow of 10 images featuring vintage movie cards and collectibles depicting the stars of today's movies, including several of Randolph Scott.

6:00 am "One Mysterious Night" (1944) starring Chester Morris, Janis Carter, William Wright

7:15 am "Escape in the Fog" (1945) starring Otto Kruger, Nina Foch, William Wright

8:30 am Budd Boetticher "A Man Can Do That" (2005) documentary

10:00 am "The Killer Is Loose" (1956) starring Joseph Cotten, Wendell Corey, Rhonda Fleming

11:30 am "Comanche Station" (1960) starring Randolph Scott, Nancy Gates, Claude Akins

1:00 pm "Buchanan Rides Alone" (1958) starring Randolph Scott, Craig Stevens, Barry Kelly

2:30 pm "Ride Lonesome" (1959) starring Randolph Scott, Karen Steele, Pernell Roberts

4:00 pm "Decision at Sundown" (1957) starring Randolph Scott, John Carroll, Karen Steele

5:30 pm "Bullfighter and the Lady" (1951) starring Robert Stack, Joy Page, Gilbert Roland

David Thomson writes succinctly of the Boetticher-Scott Westerns in The New Biographical Dictionary of Film:

... a remarkable series of Westerns, all made cheaply and quickly in desert or barren locations. They have a consistent and bleak preoccupation with life and death, sun and shade, and encompass treachery, cruelty, courage, and bluff with barely a trace of sentimentality or portentousness.

Following Budd Boetticher day TCM turns in a pretty different direction with films by Federico Fellini all night long! Beginning at 8 pm with 1954's "La Strada," the schedule continues with "Juliet of the Spirits" (1965), "Satyricon (1970), "Roma" (1972), and which finishes up with the documentary "The Magic of Fellini" (2002) airing from 5-6 am before beginning a run of David Lean movies on Friday.

A gallery of vintage movie cards and collectibles featuring the stars of today's Budd Boetticher classics, especially Randolph Scott, follows: