Limits of 'Auteur Theory' -- This is as good as one of the Boetticchers

"Man in the Saddle" is easily as good as all but the very best of the "Ranown" Westerns directed by Budd Boetticcher, yet it has an inexplicably low rating here. It shows you the limits of the "auteur" theory and the cults of good, not great, directors like Boetticcher, who was, after all, a hired hand. He was not in the class of a John Ford, let alone a real auteur like Stanley Kubrick.

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"Why do people always laugh in the wrong places?"
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