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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.
- Randolph Scott
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Reduced to transporting gold from a distant mine to a small-town bank, retired lawman Steve Judd (Joel McCrea) recruits friend Gil Westrum (Randolph Scott), who has been performing in a traveling...
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- Randolph Scott
- Sam Peckinpah
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Ride the High Country - Full Cast & Crew. Sam Peckinpah's elegy for the Old West is set in the early 1900s, where two former lawmen are hired to transport gold from a mining camp to a town...
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Feb 9, 2023 · Hannah Long revisits the 1960s film Ride the High Country, a Western fable of decline, inheritance, and hope.
From the majestic wildness of the "high country" we cut, as the credits end, to the bustling vulgarity of a California township where the shabby old lawman, Steve Judd (McCrea), is nearly run down by an automobile (anticipating the fate of another Peckinpah hero, Cable Hogue).
From acclaimed action director Sam Peckinpah ("Straw Dogs") comes this tense explosive drama about two aging gunslingers who sign on to transport gold from a remote mining town.
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But although Ride the High Country was the seed from which the director’s revisionist approach to Westerns would ultimately grow, it wasn’t nearly as graphically violent as his following features, which would eventually earn him the nickname “Bloody Sam.” Sam was not bloody just yet and the controversy around his persona wasn’t nearly ...
