Budd Boetticher Movies

A college student takes a break and goes out to sea with his father, the captain of a shark-hunting boat. When his inexperience results in an...

A young man with a love of horses, Scott Jordan (Roddy McDowall) lives on the family ranch with his uncle Bill (Damian O’Flynn). When he buys a...

Interviews and film clips re-create the glorious history of the American western.

An independent former ranch foreman and an heiress are kidnapped by a trio of ruthless outlaws.

A newsman tracks down a phantom killer of murder-trial jurors.

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...

Lance Caldwell, a cavalry lieutenant, recounts his efforts to make peace with the Seminole Indian tribe, under an evil major.

As the Civil War spills our nation’s blood, Capt. John Hayes fights on a vital but little-known battlefront. He aims to ship gold to Union...

A savings-and-loan bank is robbed; later, a police wiretap identifies meek bank teller Leon Poole as the inside man. In capturing him, detective Sam...

Merchant seaman Archie Gibbs manages to survive when his ship is torpedoed by a German submarine. Disguising himself in the uniform of a dead Nazi...

Starting out as e-mail pen pals, Daniel and Laura soon fall in love. Only problem is that she lives in Germany and he lives in Los Angeles. When they...

A female juvenile court judge learns that her own daughter is one of the town delinquents in this minor low-budget potboiler.

A Canadian Mountie follows a fugitive to a small fur-trapping community. Most of the action is handled by Chinook, a handsome German Shepherd.

Budd Boetticher talks about the Ranown Cycle, a collection of low-budget westerns of the late 1950s.

Passing through a border town, a man is caught up in a Mexican's murder of a member of the town's most powerful family.

A former sheriff relentlessly pursuing the 7 men who murdered his wife in Arizona crosses paths with a couple heading to California.

An American takes up bullfighting to impress the ladies but learns to respect the sport.

During the war for Texas independence, one man leaves the Alamo before the end (chosen by lot to help others' families) but is too late to accomplish...

Documentary about the director Budd Boetticher.

A veteran rodeo rider takes on a young apprentice in order to "teach him the ropes", and winds up competing against him.