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Budget. $813,000 [1] Box office. $2 million [2] 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. The supporting cast includes Edgar Buchanan, James Drury, Warren Oates, and Ron Starr.
Ride the High Country: Directed by Sam Peckinpah. With Randolph Scott, Joel McCrea, Mariette Hartley, Ron Starr. An ex-union soldier is hired to transport gold from a mining community through dangerous territory.
- (15K)
- Drama, Western
- Sam Peckinpah
- 1962-05-09
Feb 9, 2023 · Ride the High Country is about the death of a generation and the sad inevitability of change. It’s a story about the 1960s. About the end of an era of film and a style of acting. About a director wrestling with his father’s legacy. The passing away of a generation of Christian men.
Title Screen : Movie Title/Year and Scene Descriptions: Screenshots: Ride the High Country (1962) In Sam Peckinpah's classic revisionist western (often considered the first "modern" western) - his feature film directorial debut - an elegiac, end-of-an-era western, set in the early 20th century, in the high country of the Sierra Nevada Mountains around the mining town of Coarse Gold; it was always noted as the valedictory 'swan song' for iconic genre actors Randolph Scott and Joel McCrea ...
Ride the High Country. Released Jun 20, 1962 1h 34m Western CTA List. 89% Tomatometer 19 Reviews 83% Popcornmeter 2,500+ Ratings. Reduced to transporting gold from a distant mine to a small-town ...
- (19)
- Randolph Scott
- Sam Peckinpah
- Western
Purchase Ride The High Country on digital and stream instantly or download offline. In this brilliant, moving film directed by Sam Peckinpah (The Wild Bunch), cowboy icons Randolph Scott and Joel McCrea find roles to match their leathery Western personas, playing aging lawmen hired to guard a gold shipment. They don’t have much: a horse each, a couple of dollars. And they have everything: their independence. But the frontier is disappearing – and so is space wide open enough for ...
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Aging ex-marshal Steve Judd is hired by a bank to transport a gold shipment through dangerous territory. He hires an old partner, Gil Westrum, and his young protege Heck to assist him. Steve doesn't know, however, that Gil and Heck plan to steal the gold, with or without Steve's help. On the trail, the three get involved in a young woman's ...
