Randolph Scott stars in director Sam Peckinpah's ode to the taming ofthe American frontier and passing of the West's values of individual survival and integrity ... as a pair of aging lawmen, for one last time, Ride the High Country. Released at the tail end of the western genre, and virtually thrown away by MGM, Ride the High Country feels like an elegy for the western itself -- and Peckinpah himself would go on to revise western conventions with such later efforts as Peckinpah (1969) and Peckinpah (1973). When he gets hired to escort a shipment of gold, he decides to enlist the help of his old pal played by Randolph Scott. The film featured Scott's final screen performance.In the early years of the 20th century, an aging ex-lawman, Steve Judd (Judd, Gil, and Heck ride up into the mountains toward Coarsegold (A Sierra foothills town north of Fresno ) mining camp. This film come out during a transition period for the western genre.
Featurette: A Justified Life: Sam Peckinpah and the High Country; Commentary by Peckinpah Biographers/Documentarians Nick Redman, Paul Seydor, Garner Simmons and David Weddle; Peckinpah Trailer GallerySam Peckinpah's second feature united aging Western stars Joel McCrea and Randolph Scott in a beautiful meditation on the passing of the West's heroes.
| Rating: 4/5 Release date: June 20, 1962
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When the dust settles, the three brothers are dead, but Judd is mortally wounded.
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The two young people are quite good, especially Miss Hartley, a newcomer with real promise.
Unlike McCrea's character, Scott's doesn't have much remaining integrity, and thus is easily tempted, along with his young saddle mate to convince McCrea's Steve Judd to steal the gold for themselves instead of delivering it as expected. | Rating: 2/5
Be on the lookout for your Britannica newsletter to get trusted stories delivered right to your inbox.Articles from Britannica Encyclopedias for elementary and high school students. Ride the High Country is the one Sam Peckinpah movie about which there has never been controversy--save at MGM in 1962, when a new studio regime opted to dump this beautiful, heartbreakingly elegiac Western into the bottom half of a double-bill. When they reach Elsa's farm, the Hammond brothers are waiting, having already killed her father. Released at the tail end of the western genre, and virtually thrown away by MGM, Ride the High Country feels like an elegy for the western itself -- and Peckinpah himself would go on to revise western conventions with such later efforts as The Wild Bunch (1969) and Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (1973).~Hal Erickson. Find Where to Watch Ride The High Country and Many More Full-Length Movies From The Best Streaming Services Online. I always did.
During the night as Gil and Heck prepare to leave with the gold, Judd confronts them at gunpoint. A newly married couple (Thomas Jane and Lauren German) takes a honeymoon hell-ride through the ...
A newly married couple (Thomas Jane and Lauren German) takes a honeymoon hell-ride through the The film's script, though credited solely to veteran TV screenwriter N. B. Javascript is not enabled in your browser. Ride the High Country (released internationally as Guns in the Afternoon) is a 1962 American CinemaScope Western film directed by Sam Peckinpah and starring Randolph Scott, Joel McCrea, and Mariette Hartley.