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Buster gladly obliges and proceeds to shoot off each of the fingers of his right hand before finishing him off with the sixth shot delivered over-the-shoulder using a mirror.Ī young singing cowboy clad in black then rides into town and politely challenges Buster. Joe's brother arrives in dismay and challenges Buster to a gunfight in the street. Buster breaks the barroom tension with a boisterous song about 'Surly Joe', much to the patrons' delight. Having shot himself three times, Joe falls dead. After failing to persuade Joe to end the confrontation, Buster repeatedly kicks a plank in the poker table, which tips Joe's gun hand so that his pistol points backwards and discharges into his face. When Buster refuses, a large menacing player named Joe stands and draws a concealed pistol. He joins a game of poker that a player has suddenly left, but discovers the player vacated the seat after being dealt the infamous dead man's hand, which the other players insist Buster play now that he has seen the cards.

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The picture consists of six tales, entirely distinct from one another.īuster Scruggs, a cheerful singing cowboy, arrives at an isolated cantina full of outlaws where he exchanges insults with another patron before effortlessly shooting everyone as they reach for their guns.īuster then wanders into Frenchman's Gulch and enters a saloon, leaving his guns at the door to comply with its no firearms policy. The film earned three nominations at the 91st Academy Awards: Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Costume Design and Best Original Song ('When a Cowboy Trades His Spurs for Wings'). The National Board of Review named it as one of its top ten best films of 2018. After a limited theatrical run beginning on November 9, 2018, it was released on Netflix on November 16. The film premiered at the 75th Venice International Film Festival on August 31, 2018, where it won the Golden Osella Award for Best Screenplay. It stars Tim Blake Nelson, Tyne Daly, James Franco, Brendan Gleeson, Bill Heck, Grainger Hines, Zoe Kazan, Harry Melling, Liam Neeson, Jonjo O'Neill, Chelcie Ross, Saul Rubinek, and Tom Waits, and features six vignettes that take place on the American frontier. It had a limited theatrical release, being primarily intended for Netflix television. The Ballad of Buster Scruggs is a 2018 American Western anthology film written, directed, and produced by the Coen brothers.