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Ride The High Country [VHS] [1962]
 
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Ride The High Country [VHS] [1962]

VHS ~ Joel McCrea
4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)

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  • Actors: Joel McCrea, Randolph Scott, Mariette Hartley, Ron Starr, Edgar Buchanan
  • Directors: Sam Peckinpah
  • Writers: Sam Peckinpah, N.B. Stone Jr., Robert Creighton Williams
  • Producers: Richard E. Lyons
  • Format: HiFi Sound, PAL
  • Language English
  • Classification: 15
  • Studio: Warner Home Video
  • VHS Release Date: 3 April 2000
  • Run Time: 89 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B00004CS2L
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 11,887 in Video (See Bestsellers in Video)

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Two old cowboys have the task of moving a shipment of gold. One is honest, the other wants the gold...

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5.0 out of 5 stars Peckinpah directs McRae and Scott in this classic western, 6 April 2003
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MGM thought they were producing just another B-Wesern when director Sam Peckinpah made this 1962 movie, but "Ride in the High Country" turns out to be a classic of the genre. Aging ex-Marshall Steve Judd (Joel McRae) is hired to transport a load of gold from a mining camp to town. He hires his old friend, Gil Westrum (Randolph Scott) and a younger one, Heck Longtree (Ron Starr) to help him guard the gold. Westrum tries to convince Judd to steal the gold, but Judd refuses. They attend the wild wedding of Elsa (Mariette Hartley), who ends up running away with them, having fallen for young Heck. While the groom's family comes after Elsa, Westrum and Longtree try to steal the gold. Judd stops them and vows to bring them in for trial. But when the in-laws catch up with Judd, Westrum returns to help out his old friend in one last gun battle.

"Ride the High Country" is about the death of the Old West. This film was supposed to be the last film for both Scott and McRae, although McRae changed his mind afterwards. Peckinpah presents a natural Western, in settings far removed from the Monument Valley splendor we associate with John Ford. Both the dialogue and the performances represent that realism as well. The final scene between Scott and McRae is as touching as any this side of "Shane." Of course, Peckinpah goes on to deal with the end of the Old West in a more different fashion in his classic "The Wild Bunch." But I really think this is the better Western once you get past all the bloody violence of the other one.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Fine western!, 24 Jul 2000
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Good western - brilliantly performed by ol' cowboys Joel McCrea and Randolph Scott. Only wish that "hell-and-fire" director Peckinpah would have made other quiet and poetic movies like this one.
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5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars The Best Western Ever, 7 Jan 2001
A masterpiece. An unmissable westen containing all the classic ingredients of good versus bad, the final showdown, the fading of the old west. Marvellous music and photography.
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"Ride The High Country"(62) was Sam Peckinpah's second film following the very under rated "The Deadly Companions"(61). Read more
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