For about the first twenty minutes this looks as if it is going to be a homely little affair with too sweet children and a predictable storyline but then this is based upon an Elmore Leonard story. True it is a very slight story and the film is rather thin but then there is no wasted moment here. Fantastic use of location, an excellent Richard Boone as a thoroughly bad, bad man and yet...plus the iconic Randolph Scott. It is one of Scott's last films and he seems slightly uncomfortable but still does a most convincing job, helping to steer this modest affair through its various difficult moments. There is time within the short running time for everybody to re-evaluate their life and in the end we feel that not only have we seen a most efficient and exciting western but something much deeper too.
Review of The Tall T
