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The Tall T

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The Tall T	comment	Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })The Tall T is a 1957 Western film directed by Budd Boetticher.Pat Brennan (Randolph Scott) is a former cowboy who is trying to make a go of his own ranch. He rides into the town of Contention for supplies, stopping along the way at a "swing station" to water his horse and exchange plesantries with station master Hank and Hank's son Jeff. Pat's looking to buy a bull to put to stud, but after he's goaded into a foolish wager, he not only doesn't get the bull, he loses his horse.Pat starts the long long walk back to his ranch; he still has 15 miles to go when he hitches a ride on a stagecoach. The coach was rented by arrogant accountant Willard Mims (John Hubbard) and his meek wife Doretta (Maureen O'Sullivan), who are on their honeymoon. The coach stops at the swing station—but Hank and Jeff aren't there.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })Instead, to their horror, the people on the coach find three bandits: leader Frank Usher (Richard Boone) and his wingmen Billy Jack (Skip Homeier) and "Chink" (Henry Silva). The bandits, who have already murdered Hank and Jeff, kill the coach driver and are about to kill the other three when cowardly Willard proposes instead that they hold his wife for ransom. A tense waiting period ensues after the bandits send off their ransom demand.Based on a short story by Elmore Leonard called "The Captives".
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The Tall T / int_1235f055	comment	Dirty Coward: To save his own skin, Willard suggests that the bandits ransom his wife. Then Willard is only too willing to leave Doretta behind when he gets the chance.
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The Tall T / int_1daa7fce	type	In the Back
The Tall T / int_1daa7fce	comment	In the Back: Frank makes a point of having Chink shoot the weaselly Willard in the back. Then Pat deliberately calls out Chink's name so he won't have to shoot Chink in the back. And at the end, Pat gets the drop on Frank from behind as Frank exits the shack. Frank calmly says that Pat won't be willing to shoot a man in the back, and he's right, as Pat lets him get on his horse and walk away.
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The Tall T / int_23473ae7	type	Adaptation Expansion
The Tall T / int_23473ae7	comment	Adaptation Expansion: Leonard's story begins with the scene where Pat hitches a ride on the stagecoach. The film adds several scenes before that, establishing Pat's character and the reason he doesn't have a horse - and, not incidentally, making the story long enough for a feature film.
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The Tall T / int_2b80abf4	type	Trivial Title
The Tall T / int_2b80abf4	comment	Trivial Title: "The Tall T" is the name of Tenvoorde's ranch, which Pat visits early in the movie, and which has nothing to do with the rest of the story.
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The Tall T / int_319e4a2f	type	Even Evil Has Standards
The Tall T / int_319e4a2f	comment	Even Evil Has Standards: Frank is a thief and murderer who had no problem killing a father and his young son. But he's sickened by Willard's eagerness to offer his wife up for ransom. He pretends to let Willard go, then has Chink shoot Willard down.
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The Tall T / int_3f45f1e6	type	Adaptational Heroism
The Tall T / int_3f45f1e6	comment	Adaptational Heroism: Because Boetticher liked nuanced, likable villains, Frank is much more sympathetic in the film than he is in the original Elmore Leonard story.
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The Tall T / int_65fcc287	type	Lima Syndrome
The Tall T / int_65fcc287	comment	Lima Syndrome: Frank keeps Pat alive for no other reason than he likes him, apparently. And he later puts a Comforting Comforter over a sleeping Doretta.
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The Tall T / int_6b05b601	type	Jerkass Has a Point
The Tall T / int_6b05b601	comment	Jerkass Has a Point: Willard is portrayed as a horrible scoundrel and coward for offering his wife up for ransom. And well, he basically is a horrible scoundrel and coward, as he is eventually willing to leave and abandon Doretta. But he did save their lives by telling Frank that Doretta was rich and could be ransomed. If he hadn't, the bandits would have killed all three of them right there.
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The Tall T / int_786d6cf6	type	You Wouldn't Shoot Me
The Tall T / int_786d6cf6	comment	You Wouldn't Shoot Me: So says Frank, noting that he stopped the others from killing Pat at the station, and Pat wouldn't shoot a man In the Back anyway. He's right.
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The Tall T / int_7febc23b	type	Establishing Character Moment
The Tall T / int_7febc23b	comment	Establishing Character Moment: Pat in his first scene has a friendly conversation with Hank and is nice to little Jeff, showing him to be kind and decent. Willard is first scene in the coach acting like an obnoxious prick, demanding that the coachman fetch all his baggage.
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The Tall T / int_9b54d536	type	Evil Counterpart
The Tall T / int_9b54d536	comment	Evil Counterpart: Frank is basically the evil version of Pat. Like Pat, he dreams of having his own ranch with a herd of cattle. Like Pat, he's attracted to Doretta. Frank clearly likes Pat much more than the two goons in his gang. And Frank and Pat both hold to the same codes of the west, although Frank's willingness to violate those codes at the end show why he's the Evil Counterpart to begin with.
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The Tall T / int_a4c37cbe	type	Mood Whiplash
The Tall T / int_a4c37cbe	comment	Mood Whiplash: What looks like it might be a family comedy film in the early going suddenly turns a lot darker when the stagecoach meets the bandits.
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The Tall T / int_aef5c283	type	Off-into-the-Distance Ending
The Tall T / int_aef5c283	comment	Off-into-the-Distance Ending: Pat and Doretta are walking away. Doretta hesitantly reaches out and eventually puts her arm around Pat's waist. He puts his arm around her shoulder, and they walk off as The End pops up onscreen.
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The Tall T / int_bcd27e37	type	Improbable Aiming Skills
The Tall T / int_bcd27e37	comment	Improbable Aiming Skills: Frank is impressed when Chink manages to shoot Rintoon the coach driver while he's in the air. Later Chink shoots Willard off his horse with a rifle (plausible enough), then manages to shoot him a couple more times with pistols firing from the hip (not so plausible).
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The Tall T / int_bf1edb7e	type	Comforting Comforter
The Tall T / int_bf1edb7e	comment	Comforting Comforter: Surprisingly it's Frank, the bandit leader, who tenderly covers up Doretta with a blanket when he finds her sleeping in the shack.
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The Tall T / int_d73ecb18	type	Gun Struggle
The Tall T / int_d73ecb18	comment	Gun Struggle: Played straight, as a struggle between Billy Jack and Pat over a shotgun leads to Billy Jack taking a shotgun blast under his chin.
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The Tall T / int_ed503b22	type	Match Cut
The Tall T / int_ed503b22	comment	Match Cut: From Pat chopping wood to Doretta starting a fire with the chopped wood.
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The Tall T / int_f10d3363	type	Distracted by the Sexy
The Tall T / int_f10d3363	comment	Distracted by the Sexy: How Pat takes out Billy Jack, the youngest and by far the dumbest of the bandits. He tells Doretta to undo her blouse. Then he emerges from the shack and suggests Billy Jack go in. Billy Jack does so and sees Doretta with her shirt open, wearing her slip. He grabs her and is manhandling her when Pat charges back in and kills him.
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