The Ranown Cycle Westerns: watch order

The movies in the series, sorted by release date. Total runtime: 8 h 50 min. The six briskly entertaining, vividly performed westerns made by director Budd Boetticher and strapping star Randolph Scott in the second half of the 1950s transcend their B-movie origins to become rich, unexpectedly profound explorations of loyalty, greed, honor, and revenge.

1. 
   Movie 1

   7 Men from Now (1956)

   1 h 18 min · ★ 6.8

   Former sheriff Ben Stride, haunted by the loss of his wife in a Wells Fargo robbery, hunts for the seven men responsible for her death – along the way, encountering a couple heading west for California, and an outlaw he…

2. 
   Movie 2

   The Tall T (1957)

   1 h 18 min · ★ 7.0

   Pat Brennan's luck is about to go from bad to worse; after gambling his horse away, he gets a ride from Willard and Doretta Mims. However, their stagecoach is hijacked by a trio of merciless bandits, led by ruthless…

3. 
   Movie 3

   Decision at Sundown (1957)

   1 h 18 min · ★ 6.3

   A man and his partner arrive at a small Western town to kill its most powerful man because the former blames him for his wife's death.

4. 
   Movie 4

   Buchanan Rides Alone (1958)

   1 h 20 min · ★ 6.6

   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.

5. 
   Movie 5

   Ride Lonesome (1959)

   1 h 13 min · ★ 6.7

   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…

6. 
   Movie 6

   Westbound (1959)

   1 h 9 min · ★ 6.4

   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 banks through a small Colorado town, defying Southern sympathizers who aim to…

7. 
   Movie 7

   Comanche Station (1960)

   1 h 14 min · ★ 6.7

   A white man trades with the Comanche for the release of a female stranger and the pair cross paths with three outlaws who have their eyes on the handsome reward for bringing her home and Comanche on the warpath.