While I was off in the mountains over Thanksgiving, with no Internet, John, Graham and an assorted cast of characters kept the lights on with a steady stream of comments. Y’all are sure something for me to be thankful for!
Anyway, one of the new released that was name-dropped was The Randolph Scott Collection from Via Vision out of Australia. It’s a pretty eclectic set, leaning towards the Harry Joe Brown pictures.
The Texans (1938)
Directed by James P. Hogan
Starring Randolph Scott, Joan Bennett, Walter Brennan
A post Civil War picture from Paramount.
When The Daltons Rode (1940)
Directed by George Marshall
Starring Randolph Scott, Kay Francis, Brian Donlevy, Broderick Crawford, Andy Devine, George Bancroft, Edgar Buchanan
About 80 minutes of nonstop action as the Daltons blast their way from one robbery to the next, with Scott a lawyer friend who tries to help out.
Corvette K-225 (1943)
Directed by Richard Rosson
Starring Randolph Scott, James Brown, Ella Raines, Barry Fitzgerald, Robert Mitchum
Howard Hawks produced this World War II picture, with Scott going after the U-boat that sank his ship and machine-gunned his crew.
Gunfighters (1947)
Directed by George Waggner
Starring Randolph Scott, Barbara Britton, Bruce Cabot, Forrest Tucker
A cool Cinecolor picture produced by Harry Joe Brown.
Coroner Creek (1948)
Directed by Ray Enright
Starring Randolph Scott, Marguerite Chapman, George Macready, Edgar Buchanan, Wallace Ford , Forrest Tucker, Joe Sawyer
Ray Enright directs that spectacular cast in Cinecolor. It doesn’t get much better than that.
The Doolins Of Oklahoma (1949)
Directed by Gordon Douglas
Starring Randolph Scott, George Macready, Louise Allbritton, John Ireland , Charles Kemper, Noah Beery Jr.
This is just a terrific movie that gets everything right. 
The Walking Hills (1949)
Directed by John Sturges
Starring Randolph Scott, Ella Raines, Edgar Buchanan, Arthur Kennedy, John Ireland, Josh White
A group of men head to together in search of a lost wagon train loaded down with gold. Sturges’ does a great job, and the Alabama Hills and Death Valley locations are put to good use.
Santa Fe (1951)
Directed by Irving Pichel
Starring Randolph Scott, Janis Carter
Scott’s trying to help build a railroad, with even his own brothers trying to stop him.
Most of these pictures can be found elsewhere — some even on Blu-Ray, so there’s likely some duplication with something you already have. But there’s plenty of good stuff to recommend it. Sure wish there was a Blu-Ray version available, too (especially of Doolins).
50 Westerns From The 50s. 
Toby…Thanks for your comments on Randolph Scott. He grew up in Charlotte NC (near where my father lived–his family and my dad’s were acquaintances). When he passed away in March 1987, I published an appreciation of his long career and work. A few months later I got a telephone call (!) from his widow, Mrs. Patricia Stillman Scott, who had somehow seen the piece I wrote and wanted to contact me to thank me. Over the next decade or so we became close friends, we exchanged photos, and I made videocassettes of Randy’s movies for her–she had not paid that close attention to them when they were married. I have photographs of Mrs. Scott playing bridge (I think it was) with Doris Day, Mrs. Bob Hope, and Mrs. Ray Milland, and also of her cats (she got photos of my cocker spaniels!). She would call me by telephone fairly often (almost never observing the time difference between California and North Carolina, so it was always late!), and we would just chat. It was always a great pleasure for me.
She told me that when Randy died, his body was transported back to Charlotte where he was interred in Elmwood Cemetery, with Rev. Billy Graham presiding over the burial ceremony. She did not make the trip due to an aversion to air travel.
When Mrs. Scott passed away a few years back, her executor sent me a very thoughtful announcement of her death, lined in black, which I treasure.
Randolph Scott was the archetypal Western actor, embodying all that was good and wonderful in the genre…and, as I found out, that personality on screen was the same off screen. -Boyd
@ Boyd Cathey – what a great story. Thank you for sharing this.
Thank you so much!
It’s always good to hear nice things about people we like & respect even if we didn’t know them personally. More than thirty years after his death we’re still enjoying his work, maybe now more than ever.
Like the townsfolk in “Blazing Saddles” we all take our hats of for Randolph Scott
That is a wonderful recollection of a magical friendship, Boyd. Thanks so much for sharing it with us Scott devotees.
Wonderful. Thumbs way up.