tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7520645801211732446.post1100162408644890089..comments2022-04-07T06:17:15.511-07:00Comments on The Ranown Cycle: Buchanan Rides Alone (1959)Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7520645801211732446.post-85616286930422321942016-01-24T07:08:47.733-08:002016-01-24T07:08:47.733-08:00Just saw this last night. Not my favorite of the...Just saw this last night. Not my favorite of the Boetticher/Scott films either (still a few I haven't gotten to), but pretty good. I think it suffers a bit from repetitiveness. It's the only one where most of the action is in and around a town, which is maybe one reason it's not as good. The character Scott plays in these films is at his best out in the wilderness. But an interesting counterpoint to the series as a whole.<br /><br />Kurosawa is generally believed to have used Dashiell Hammett's Red Harvest as the inspiration for Yojimbo. I can't say I saw any great similarity here. But if it's there, it's probably more a matter of Burt Kennedy (writing the screenplay uncredited) being influenced by Hammett as well. Lots of writers of westerns drew on hardboiled crime fiction to give their work more of a bite.<br /><br />Kurosawa loved American westerns, but obviously his primary influence there was John Ford. He never admitted that he'd borrowed ideas from Red Harvest, but he did say Hammett was an influence on his work, and on Yojimbo specifically. Anyway, the western genre borrowed plenty from him in return. Chrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00271250698430923736noreply@blogger.com