Is "Tall T" For Terror, Tall, or a Tall Or Terrible Ranch?

I Would Ride The Caterpillar, Possibly The "Full Circus Size" Carousel, Skip
the Roller Coaster (safety concern), and Maybe Part Of Hellcats Of The Navy
In Favor Of The Canteen and Other Jolly Roger Kiddieland Attractions.
Note That It's Here Where They Identify The Tall T As A Ranch. 

Greenbriar's Tall T Way Of Life Enhanced by HD

T Is For Terror? Now I Am Confused.

A first exposure to Scott/Brown/Boetticher came via this, among few times a movie really transformed me at adult age (that story told here). How many pics do we know virtually by heart? (my list may well run into hundreds) I don't tire of The Tall T, and now having captured it on HD (Sony's Movie Channel) redoubles likelihood of increased revisit. Interesting how Randy smiles near constant right up to onset of crisis, then never does again for Tall T's balance. And what of the title's meaning? The ad above links it with character Tenfoorde's ranch, being his smaller-scale Rieta or Spanish Bit, I suppose. The S/B/B's were shot almost entirety outdoors --- was that cheaper in a long run? Had to have saved insofar as set construct, rock and scrub being all TT needed for backdrop. The Tall T is a western where writing amounts to chief contribution (Burt Kennedy), that hoisting the auteur theory upon a petard, as it was clearly Kennedy over Boetticher that distinguished the S/B/B's (then why don't we call them the S/B/B/K's, or better yet, the K/S/B/B's?). To think 1957 took The Tall T so utterly for granted; if we toted up titles of outstanding small pics from that year, the number would be considerable.

Willard Mims (John Hubbard) Is Yellow, Selfish, and No Good, But He Does Save Lives

Richard Boone Explains To Randy That a Western Is Only
As Good As Its Principal Heavy

A Greenbriar reader once recalled seeing The Tall T on an ozoner triple with The Lineup and Seventh Voyage Of Sinbad. What bliss ... with corndogs and sodee pop for a chaser. Westerns getting tougher by '57 allowed shotgun blasts to the face, a new level of screen violence; in this instance, it happens twice. They say actioners are measured in terms of a villain's strength, for which The Tall T stands as vivid-est example. Some call Richard Boone's performance "method," a damning with faint praise. I say if this result came of method, give us more. Randolph Scott was said to have spent breaks reading The Wall Street Journal. For him, the movies were pure business, art entering in to extent of making them saleable. Maybe we need more like him and them today. I'm beginning to rethink the despised character of Willard Mims (John Hubbard) --- after all, it's his selfish idea that preserves life for others --- without it, we'd have he/Randy/Maureen in the well, and a movie over in thirty minutes. Sometimes it's cravenest cowards that enable heroism to save the day.