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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.
- (14K)
- Drama, Western
- Sam Peckinpah
- 1962-05-09
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.
- $813,000
- June 20, 1962 (USA)
- Richard E. Lyons
- George Bassman
During the making of Ride the High Country in 1962, director Sam Peckinpah was ordered by MGM to stop filming on location (Mammoth Lakes, near Bishop) due to unfavorable weather conditions and to relocate to Bronson Canyon in Los Angeles instead. Peckinpah allegedly saw to it that none of the cast and crew members remain sober during the six ...
Released in United States June 2000 (Shown at Anthology Film Archives in New York City as part of a Sam Peckinpah Retrospective, June 1-11, 2000.) Two aging gunslingers sign on to transport gold from a remote mining town.
- Sam Peckinpah, Hal Polaire
- Randolph Scott
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.
Rated 4.5/5 Stars • Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 10/18/23 Full Review Matthew B This early Sam Peckinpah western provided a transition between the western horse operas of the 1950s and the new ...
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- Western
Ride the High Country, American western film, released in 1962, that was a revisionist take on the genre. It was the second movie by director Sam Peckinpah, and its embittered characters and realistic gunplay began to establish the formulas for which he became famous.
