Ten Wanted Men
by H. Bruce Humberstone
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Actor: Alfonso Bedoya, Donna Martell, Jocelyn Brando, Randolph Scott, Richard BooneDirector: H. Bruce Humberstone
Brand: Sony
DVD: Region Code 99
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Subtitled); Japanese (Subtitled)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 80 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-09-06
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Sony Pictures
Movie Reviews of Ten Wanted Men
Movie Review: Watchable western
Summary: 3 Stars
Director H Bruce Humberstone specialised in detective movies and musicals and his lacklustre direction of this rugged Western may be explicable for that reason .It needed a genre specialist to lift out of the routine but watchable picture we are confronted with in Ten Wanted Men
Randolph Scott plays John Steward , a prosperous Arizona rancher who brings his lawyer brother to the area to help in the imposition of law and order.Steward's most implacable enemy is locasl saloon owner and businessman Wick Campbell whose anger is further fuelled when his mistress ,tired of Campbell's jealousy and abusive seeks sanctuary at Steward's ranch .Campbell hires a bunch of ne'er do well gunslingers (including Leo Gordon and Lee Van Cleef ,both excellent ).He does not scruple to kill to obtaian more land and to rustle Steward's cattle .events move towards a climax when the gunslingers lay siege to a building with Steward ,the helpless local law and a few of Steward's closest allies
Boone is first rate,giving depth to what could simply have been a caricature villain and Jocelyn Brando does well in the underwritten role of Steward's girl friend .After a stuttering start the movie build s to a sharp and gripping climax.Given tauter direction and a more animated performance by Scott thios could have bben a minor classic .As it is ,while watchable and entertaining ,it just lacks that extra bite to lift it above the ordinary
Summary of Ten Wanted Men
Randolph Scott rides tall in the saddle as a powerful cattle rancher in this action-packed western. Scott who made a noteworthy contribution to this genre in the late 50's as a lean mean cowboy stars as John Stewart an Arizona rancher determined to rule his vast empire with strong willed integrity. Stewart meets with opposition however from local landowner Wick Campbell (Richard Boone) who prefers the persuasive power of the pistol to the letter of the law. Suddenly Stewart is forced to defend himself and the woman he loves Jocelyn Brando) against Campbell's renegades who are determined to ransack the town. Now Stewart must take a life-and-death stand in a rugged confrontation that pits one man of justice against the overwhelming odds of TEN WANTED MEN.System Requirements:Running Time: 79 Min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre:?WESTERN/MISC. Rating:?NR UPC:?043396091429 Manufacturer No:?09142Randolph Scott's movie-star reputation was redeemed late in the day by Budd Boetticher's remarkable "Ranown" films in the late '50s and Sam Peckinpah's sublime Ride the High Country, Scott's swan song, in 1962. Ten Wanted Men typifies the pictures his career needed redeeming from--formula oaters that are workmanlike at best and suitable for recommending only to confirmed fans of the genre.
Scott plays a well-to-do rancher who sends for his lawyer brother (Lester Matthews) to help civilize his corner of the Southwest. That's enough to tick off Scott's chief rival and former prot?gé, Richard Boone, who gets even more irritated when Scott's nephew charms the local se?orita Boone has been wooing in his heavy-handed way. His reaction is to import a passel of gunslinging plug-uglies and start making life miserable for everybody.
Boone would prove a superb adversary to Scott in The Tall T two years later, but here he just flails. Scott's character is possibly the most irritatingly self-righteous he ever played, so he scarcely bothers to play it at all. Bruce Humberstone's lax direction leaves no doubt when a stunt double has stepped in for Scott, and if a gunshot happens to fill the frame with smoke, you can count on the air being clear as a bell in the next camera angle. The only mildly interesting thing to wonder about in Ten Wanted Men (apart from exactly which 10 the title refers to) is how elements of Billy the Kid and the Lincoln County War came to be grafted onto the otherwise nondescript plot. --Richard T. Jameson
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