--- title: 'The Tall T (1957)' type: 'film' director: 'Budd Boetticher' released: '1957-01-01' runtime_minutes: 78 genres: - 'Western' countries: - 'United States' canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/the-tall-t-1957' review_count: 0 imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0051047/' publisher: 'CinePixo' --- # The Tall T (1957) 1957 · 78 min · Western · United States ## Synopsis The Tall T is a 1957 American Western film directed by Budd Boetticher and starring Randolph Scott, Richard Boone, and Maureen O'Sullivan. Adapted by Burt Kennedy from the 1955 short story "The Captives" by Elmore Leonard, the film is about an independent former ranch foreman who is kidnapped along with an heiress, who is being held for ransom by three ruthless outlaws. In 2000, The Tall T was selected for the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant." ## Credits - **Director:** [Budd Boetticher](https://cinepixo.com/people/budd-boetticher) - **Screenplay:** [Burt Kennedy](https://cinepixo.com/people/burt-kennedy) - **Original Music Composer:** [Heinz Eric Roemheld](https://cinepixo.com/people/heinz-eric-roemheld) - **Producer:** [Harry Joe Brown](https://cinepixo.com/people/harry-joe-brown) - **Director of Photography:** [Charles Lawton Jr.](https://cinepixo.com/people/charles-lawton-jr) - **Editor:** [Al Clark](https://cinepixo.com/people/al-clark) ## Cast - [Richard Boone](https://cinepixo.com/people/richard-boone) - [Robert Anderson](https://cinepixo.com/people/robert-anderson-2) - [Maureen O'Sullivan](https://cinepixo.com/people/maureen-o-sullivan) - [Robert Burton](https://cinepixo.com/people/robert-burton) - [John Hubbard](https://cinepixo.com/people/john-hubbard) - [Arthur Hunnicutt](https://cinepixo.com/people/arthur-hunnicutt) - [Henry Silva](https://cinepixo.com/people/henry-silva) - [Randolph Scott](https://cinepixo.com/people/randolph-scott) - [Skip Homeier](https://cinepixo.com/people/skip-homeier) ## Criticism on CinePixo No reviews published yet. Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/the-tall-t-1957 Film facts: Wikidata (Q2037090); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.