Budd Boetticher – MRQE

My Kingdom For…

Sat, 06 Dec 2025 05:00:00 +0000

When Robert and Rosemarie Stack (Robert starred in Boetticher’s “The Bullfighter and the Lady”) visit Mary and Budd Boetticher to attend the Boettichers’ showing of their exquisite Portuguese Lusitano and Spanish Andalusian horses, Budd Boetticher takes the opportunity to narrate the proud history of these outstanding horses and their centrality to the development of the “rejoneador” (a bullfighter on horseback) and the kind of demanding training necessary to bring both horses and riders to performance perfection.

Red Ball Express

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

August 1944: proceeding with the invasion of France, Patton’s Third Army has advanced so far toward Paris that it cannot be supplied. To keep up the momentum, Allied HQ establishes an elite military truck route.

Arruza

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Eight years in the making, Boettichers portrait of his longtime friend, the famous bullfighter Carlos Arruza, was a labor of love that the renowned director of westerns pursued despite contending with illnesses, bankruptcy, jail time, and lucrative offers from Hollywood. The result is an astonishing work of poetry, immediacy, and violence that fearlessly wrestles with the filmmakers own ambivalence about the titular matadors triumphs prior to his death by automobile accident at the age of 46.

A Time for Dying

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Cass Bunning, a farm boy with a talent for shooting, meets up with Nellie, a naive woman from the East, who has been lured West by the promise of a waitressing job which turns out to be in a brothel.

The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond

Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Jack Diamond and his sickly brother arrive in prohibition New York as jewelry thieves. After a spell in jail, the coldly ambitious Diamond hits on the idea of stealing from thieves himself and sets about getting close to gangster boss Arnold Rothstein to move in on his booze, girls, gambling, and drugs operations.

Comanche Station

Sat, 30 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A man saves a woman who had been kidnapped by Comanches, then struggles to get both of them home alive.

Westbound

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

As the Civil War spills our nations blood, Capt. John Hayes (Randolph Scott) fights on a vital but little-known battlefront. He aims to ship gold to Union banks through a small Colorado town, defying Southern sympathizers who aim to stop him at any cost.

Ride Lonesome

Wed, 27 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

On the way to pick up the bounty on a wanted murderer, a bounty hunter stops at a staging post where he is forced to continue his journey with two outlaws who want the murderer for their own reasons and a recently-widowed woman, with the murderer’s brother and his men in hot pursuit.

Buchanan Rides Alone

Sat, 06 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A Texan pits a powerful family against itself to save a Mexican from hanging.

Decision at Sundown

Mon, 25 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Bart Allison arrives in Sundown after a three year search for Tate Kimbrough. Although it is Kimbrough’s wedding day, Allison makes it clear he blames him for the death of his wife and is out to kill him. A shoot-out in the church puts the wedding on hold and Allison and his trail-buddy hole up in the livery stable. But the reasons for his actions become increasingly unclear, while the town starts to wonder about the grip Kimbrough has over them.