Budd Boetticher

He also directed the first three episodes of the TV series Maverick.

Boetticher finally achieved his major breakthrough when he teamed up with actor Randolph Scott, producer Harry Joe Brown and screenwriter Burt Kennedy to produce the seven films (last in 1960) that came to be known as the Ranown Cycle. (The name "Ranown" came from RANdolph Scott and Harry Joe BrOWN.) Even though his films were hailed at the time by some critics, including French critic André Bazin, who praised the first, Seven Men from Now (1956), as an "exemplary Western", they were largely forgotten until a new generation of scholars and critics championed them in the 1970s.

Boetticher's other most important films include The Tall T (1957), Buchanan Rides Alone (1958), Ride Lonesome (1959), and Comanche Station (1960).

Boetticher spent most of the 60s south of the border pursuing his obsession, the documentary of his friend, the bullfighter Carlos Arruza, turning down profitable Hollywood offers and suffering humiliation and despair to stay with the project, including sickness, bankruptcy and confinement in both jail and asylum (all of which is detailed in his autobiography When in Disgrace). It was finally released in the USA as "Arruza" in 1971. Read Less