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Ride Lonesome (1959)

Directed by Budd Boetticher · Cinematography by Charles Lawton Jr.

Approved73 min60 frames

Western

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Stills, screencaps & shots from Ride Lonesome

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Ride Lonesome (1959) movie still: fullbody — An open field features sparse vegetation and a thick, charred tree trunk. A cowboy wearing a fringe…Ride Lonesome (1959) movie still: wide — A vast arid desert landscape features rolling sand dunes and distant mountains. A ruined wooden structure…Ride Lonesome (1959) movie still: fullbody — A group of five people stand behind a crumbling adobe wall in a desert. They look out over a landscape…Ride Lonesome (1959) movie still: wide — A dry, open clearing surrounded by dense clusters of green trees. Four individuals walk across the dirt…Ride Lonesome (1959) movie still: medium — A man in a worn hat stands against a stone structure in a desert. The man gazes toward the side while…Ride Lonesome (1959) movie still: medium — A rugged desert environment with large rock formations beneath a bright, cloudy sky. A man with face…Ride Lonesome (1959) movie still: medium — A man and a horse stand in a barren desert landscape covered with boulders. The sunlit terrain is vast…Ride Lonesome (1959) movie still: medium — An adobe building wall with a rough texture serves as the background for a woman. The woman stands in an…Ride Lonesome (1959) movie still: wide — A vast desert valley is framed by massive granite boulders and distant blue mountains. Two tiny silhouettes…Ride Lonesome (1959) movie still: medium — Two men stand near a horse in a dense thicket of trees and shrubs. The men are engaged in conversation…Ride Lonesome (1959) movie still: wide — A man on horseback stands before a dense thicket of bare and leafy trees. The landscape is a flat, dry,…Ride Lonesome (1959) movie still: wide — A vast, open sandy desert expanse features a small wooden structure in the center. Three horseback riders…Ride Lonesome (1959) movie still: medium — A dark night landscape featuring a sparse, uneven field with a single dead tree. A blonde woman stands in…Ride Lonesome (1959) movie still: medium — A man rides a brown horse through a flat landscape filled with sparse trees. Distant figures on horses…Ride Lonesome (1959) movie still: medium — A crumbling adobe structure sits amidst a desolate desert landscape with distant blue mountains. Two men…Ride Lonesome (1959) movie still: fullbody — A dry desert clearing surrounded by scrub brush and low trees. One man stands with a gun while a woman…
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Ride Lonesome — official trailer

What is Ride Lonesome about?

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.

Where can you watch Ride Lonesome?

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What does the cinematography of Ride Lonesome look like?

Across 60 sampled frames, Ride Lonesome builds its coverage from wide compositions (42% of the sample), with medium shots (38%) carrying much of the rest. Cinematographer Charles Lawton Jr. keeps 70% of it in hard-edged, naturalistic light. Daylight carries most of the picture. Anamorphic glass shapes the frame. Deep focus keeps foreground and background readable at once in 75% of the frames.

What is the color palette of Ride Lonesome?

The dominant colors across the sampled frames of Ride Lonesome (1959) are #35312a, #cfb28d, #4a3a2e, #131111, #8e7255, #564938 — measured from the per-frame color data FrameThrower extracts for every film.

  • #35312a
  • #cfb28d
  • #4a3a2e
  • #131111
  • #8e7255
  • #564938

See the full Ride Lonesome colour palette — every hex with its share, plus warmth, saturation and luminance.

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