(Budd Boetticher, US 1959, 73 min, 35mm)

Randolph Scott is bounty hunter Ben Brigade, hellbent on finding his wife’s killers. Tense and filled with surprising reversals and double-crosses, Ride Lonesome is the best of the collaborations between star Scott, writer Burt Kennedy, and director Budd Boetticher made at Columbia Pictures. The effective supporting cast includes the quirky James Best, a pre-Trapper John M.D. Pernell Roberts, Lee Van Cleef, and James Coburn in his movie debut. Then at 8:30 p.m. Ride the High Country

(Sam Peckinpah, US 1962, 94 min., 35mm)

Many Peckinpah fans consider this elegiac Western to be his finest creation. The director teamed two of the genre’s legendary leading men (Randolph Scott and Joel McCrea) in a story of two aging gunslingers hired to protect a gold shipment. Two films for one admission price.

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