Ride Lonesome

Ride Lonesome

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1959 · 73 min · ★ 6.7 · Western

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.

Directed by Budd Boetticher · Written by Burt Kennedy

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