Tall Man Riding (1955)

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Plot Summary
Still seeking revenge against ranch owner Tuck Ordway for publicly whipping
him years earlier and breaking up his relationship with Ordway's daughter,
cowboy Larry Madden plans to oust Ordway from his ranch by having his claim
to the land declared invalid. Ordway's daughter Corinna,
believing Madden to be the cause of the family's recent misfortunes,
is unaware that the local saloon owner also has designs upon the Ordway holdings.
Written by Doug Sederberg

Cast
Randolph Scott ... Larry Madden
Dorothy Malone ... Corinna Ordway
Peggie Castle ... Reva
William Ching ... Rex Willard (as Bill Ching)
John Baragrey ... Cibo Pearlo
Robert Barrat ... Tucker Ordway
John Dehner ... Ames Luddington
Paul Richards ... The Peso Kid
Lane Chandler ... Hap Sutton
Mickey Simpson ... Deputy Jeff Barclay
Joe Bassett ... Will
Charles Watts ... Al - Pearlo's Palace Bartender
Russ Conway ... Marshal Jim Feathergill (as Russell Conway)
Mike Ragan ... Tom
Dub Taylor ... Townsman (uncredited)
and many more...

Directed
Lesley Selander

Writing Credits
Joseph Hoffman ... (screenplay)
Norman A. Fox ... (novel)

Produced
David Weisbart ... producer

Music
Paul Sawtell

Cinematography
Wilfred M. Cline ... director of photography (as Wilfrid M.Cline)

Trivia
Dorothy Malone was billed on posters as "That 'Battle Cry' Girl."

Goofs
Audio/visual unsynchronised
When Randolph Scott throws a silver peso down on the dirt street to challenge the Peso Kid,
the coin rings like it was dropped on concrete.

Continuity
When Madden shoots one of the henchmen, he grabs his right arm.
Shortly later, he is grabbing his left arm.

Obvious stunt double for Larry Madden (Randolph Scott)
in the fight scene with the deputy under the wagon.
As the wagon moves forward and the deputy grabs onto the wagon from beneath it
and as the wagon clears them, it pulls them along behind it, the stunt double looks up
and you can see his face, which is clearly not Randolph Scott.
In addition, the double's hair is dark while Scott's hair is silvery gray.
Neither the shirt nor trousers that the double is wearing match what Madden is wearing.
The brown dirt stains on the double's clothes from the fight are not duplicated on Scott's clothes,
and the double's gun belt is turned all the way around during the fight
so that the buckle is at his back, while the shots showing Scott as Madden
have the gun belt still correctly oriented.

Factual errors
In the Proclamation read by Marshal Jim Feathergill regarding the land owned by Tucker Ordway,
he refers to the current Secretary of State as James J. Blaine,
as that is what is signed at the bottom of the page. His middle initial is actually G.

Revealing mistakes
When Madden convinces the deputy to confess that The Peso Kid killed Rex Willard,
and the crowd leans forward to hear him repeat it louder after Madden commands him to do so,
a man in the crowd directly behind the deputy and facing the camera mouths the exact words
that the deputy is speaking as he speaks them, "It was The Peso Kid that killed Willard."

Memorable Quotes

Filming Locations
Dijon Street, Warner Brothers Burbank Studios - 4000 Warner Boulevard, Burbank, California, USA
French Ranch, Hidden Valley Road, Thousand Oaks, California, USA
Iverson Ranch - 1 Iverson Lane, Chatsworth, Los Angeles, California, USA
Janss Conejo Ranch, Thousand Oaks, California, USA
Universal Studios - 100 Universal City Plaza, Universal City, California, USA (Six Points western town)

Tall Man Riding is a 1955 American Western film directed by
Lesley Selander and starring Randolph Scott, Dorothy Malone, and Peggie Castle.
Based on the novel Tall Man Riding, by Norman A. Fox,
the film is about a cowboy seeking revenge against a ranch owner for
publicly whipping him years earlier and for breaking up his relationship
with the ranch owner's daughter.

User Review

In a good western Scott is the ideal western hero.
25 June 2011 | by alexandre michel liberman (tmwest) (S. Paulo, Brazil)

Quote from ALEX

This is a good Randolph Scott western , good plot, good scene of the Land Rush plenty of action scenes, colorful, two pretty actresses Dorothy Malone and Peggie Castle, where Castle outshines Malone. If you saw this western in the fifties you would certainly agree that you got your money's worth, it sure delivers all you could expect from a pre Boetticher Scott western. Scott gives one of his best performances as Larry Madden, a tough, quiet, well developed character the ideal western hero. Paul Richatd as "The Peso Kid" makes us nostalgic of the "bandidos" in the old westerns. Lesley Selander,

the director, had a lot of practice in this genre, remember Hopalong Cassidy?