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  Review by Andy Summers 🤠 ★★★ 7

  The 1st of January 2022 was a day I remember well, because after an afternoon with Harry Potter, my night began with a triple bill of Randolph Scott and Budd Boetticher, with 7 Men from Now, and Comanche Station and Ride Lonesome from the Ranown Cycle a great start to the year. That start spawned an obsession that is still ongoing, with Sugarfoot my 46th Scott film in a little over a year. I must admit that finding those remaining films in his filmography is proving trickier and trickier, but still a worthwhile use of my hard earned cash.

  One of the reasons that Randolph Scott slipped so effortlessly into the Western genre was his Southernly drawl and gentlemanly charm.…

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  Review by PUNQ ★★½

  Mostly a wholesome western with Randolph Scott trying to establish himself in a small town. There are some bad guys lurking, and while it does play out alright, the stuff they added for excitement wasn't much. Instead Adele Jergens as a strong minded saloon girl and her involvement in Scott's life became what was most interesting about Sugarfoot (1951). And it's all in nice color too.

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  Review by Genesio De Rosa ★★

  “He who acknowledges ignorance is on the road to wisdom.”

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  Review by Nick James ★★

  Not worth the effort it took to track down and watch. Though I guess I should be glad I watched this now when I still have a few other Scott westerns left instead of saving it for the end.

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  Review by Karl Janssen ★★

  Sugarfoot is one of the harder-to-find westerns in Randolph Scott's body of work, and that's probably a good thing. Scott plays Jackson Redan, an ex-Confederate soldier who moves to Prescott, Arizona after the war. He's such a dapper and well-mannered Southern gentleman that he sticks out like a sore thumb among the rougher characters of Prescott, who nickname him Sugarfoot. This film takes Scott's trademark Southern gentleman persona and exaggerates it to a ridiculous extent, to the point where he comes across as a naive babe in the woods. Throughout the film he is contrasted with the villainous Jacob Stint, played by Raymond Massey as a stereotypically sneering, lecherous scoundrel. Despite Redan's self-righteous indignation over Stints's unethical business practices, his…

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  Review by 🇵🇱 Steve G 🇵🇸 ★½

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  It's been a rare thing for me to dislike a Randolph Scott western, but Sugarfoot was fucking crap.

  It's quite telling that Scott, without Budd Boetticher or Andre de Toth behind him, is completely miscast and subsequently delivers easily the worst performance I've seen from him so far. I mean, the chap wasn't the best of actors anyway, he was a big old plank of wood for the most part.

  But that's why Boetticher and de Toth never asked him to work outside of his very limited skill set as an actor. Here, Edwin L. Marin asks him to play a sort of well-to-do high society businessman who drops anchor in…

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  Review by Rutledal ★★

  Mercifully short Scott western with a muddled plot and miscast Scott. Not worth the effort of tracking it down.

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  Review by Mike Johnson ★★★

  Randolph Scott / Arthur Hunnicutt buddy flick.

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  Review by Jeremy Milks ★★½

  Tidy little Western that doesn't have much going for it other than the repressed, prim acting of Randolph Scott, who's always watchable. This doesn't approach the intensity of the Budd Boetticher films that Scott starred in but if you like B-Westerns it's a good enough choice.

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  Review by Lonehand ★★½

  G rated Western Theater.

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  Review by joelnox ★★★

  Standard Scott Western is colorful and full of action. The solid supporting cast helps.