
The Naked Spur(1953)
A bounty hunter trying to bring a murderer to justice is forced to accept the help of two less-than-trustworthy strangers.


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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.

Randolph Scott
Ben Brigade

Karen Steele
Mrs. Carrie Lane

Pernell Roberts
Sam Boone

James Best
Billy John

Lee Van Cleef
Frank

James Coburn
Whitt
Bennie E. Dobbins
Outlaw (uncredited)

Roy Jenson
Outlaw (uncredited)
Dyke Johnson
Outlaw (uncredited)

Boyd 'Red' Morgan
Outlaw (uncredited)
Ride Lonesome is a western film released in 1959 exploring themes of bounty hunter, brother, outlaw, indian attack. Directed by Budd Boetticher, it stars Randolph Scott, Karen Steele, Pernell Roberts. 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.
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