Decision at Sundown (1957) poster
1957 · western · drama

Decision at Sundown

Directed by Budd Boetticher1h 18m1957
  • sombre
  • brisk
  • intense

A man and his partner arrive at a small Western town to kill its most powerful man because the former blames him for his wife's death.

Our read · Decision at Sundown (1957) reads as a sombre, kinetic, grounded western · drama entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.

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Randolph ScottJohn CarrollKaren SteeleValerie FrenchNoah Beery Jr.
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Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.

Mood · HeavyCosy
Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic
Intensity · GentleExtreme
Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal
Hope · NihilisticRedemptive
Stakes · IntimateEpic
Humour · NoneBroad
Reality · GroundedFantastical
Density · SparseTwisty
Warmth · ColdTender
Auteur · TransparentSignature
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