Buchanan Rides Alone

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.

Cast

Randolph Scott

as Tom Buchanan

Craig Stevens

as Abe Carbo

Barry Kelley

as Lew Agry

Tol Avery

as Judge Simon Agry

Peter Whitney

as Amos Agry

Manuel Rojas

as Juan de la Vega

L.Q. Jones

as Pecos Hill

Robert Anderson

as Waldo Peck

Joe De Santis

as Esteban Gomez

William Leslie

as Roy Agry

Reviews

John Chard

There's Aggro In Agry. Making his way home to Texas, Tom Buchanan stops off at the little town of Agry for rest and refreshments. Quickly finding that the town is run by the family Agry itself, Buchanan falls foul of one of them straight away. His problems are further compounded when he steps in ...

Wuchak

_**A rare clunker from the Boetticher/Scott team**_ A mirthful gunman from West Texas (Randolph Scott) wanders into a border town in SoCal where feuding family members run the town (Barry Kelley, Tol Avery and Peter Whitney) and threaten to string him up for accessory to murder. Craig Stevens, ...

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