The Tall T: "Our candidate for the best entry in the classic tradition-in which a loner is tested, physically and morally, within an unforgiving landscape, and proven unpretentiously heroic. ...The Tall T's narrative is typical of the best Boetticher/Kennedy: it moves from a humanizing comedy so rare in the genre into a harsh and convincing savagery as Maureen O'Sullivan and Scott are taken hostage by Richard Boone (in a complex performance) and two less redeemable sidekicks ("I've never shot me a woman, have I, Frank?"). Boetticher's villains are relentlessly cruel, yet morally shaded...."-Scott Simmon