Buchanan Rides Alone is a 1958 American Western film directed by Budd Boetticher and starring Randolph Scott, Craig Stevens, and Barry Kelley.

Based on the 1956 novel The Name's Buchanan by Jonas Ward (in this case, Willam Ard), the film is about a Texan returning home with enough money to start his own ranch.

A lynching is arranged, but the judge, Simon Agry (Roy's father), interrupts and makes a show of being determined to conduct a trial in a decent, proper manner.

Another Agry, Amos, overhears this deal being made and tells Lew, who immediately concocts a plan to have the money for himself.

Gomez returns to Simon's house with the ransom money, and the judge sends his enforcer, Carbo, to get Juan from jail.

A gunfight breaks out, the saddlebags containing the $50,000 are dropped in the street, and the ensuing stand-off results in the judge and the sheriff shooting each other, committing mutual fratricide.

Juan is freed, the ransom money is returned to the de la Vega family, and Tom resumes his journey to Texas.

In a 2001 interview at the Cinecon Film Festival, Boetticher confirmed that the script was Kennedy's work, noting that such lines as "This sure is a $10 town" and "Don't just stand there, Amos, get a shovel!"