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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.
- $813,000
- June 20, 1962 (USA)
- Richard E. Lyons
- George Bassman
May 3, 2006. Ride the High Country: The Essentials. SYNOPSIS At a traveling sideshow, former lawman Steve Judd encounters an old friend, Gil Westrum, another ex-lawman fallen on hard times. The two agree to escort a gold shipment from a mining camp high in the Sierras to the town below.
- Sam Peckinpah, Hal Polaire
- Randolph Scott
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
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Jun 20, 2015 · Ride the High Country (1962): Peckinpah’s Ode to the Old West and Old Actors Randolph Scott and Joel McCrea June 20, 2015 by EmanuelLevy Director Sam Peckinpah’s second feature, Ride the High Country , is both a swan song to the codes of the Old West and a celebration of two vet actors, Randolph Scott and Joel McCrea, who have contributed ...
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. Ex-lawman Steve Judd (played by Joel McCrea) has fallen on hard times.
- Lee Pfeiffer
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 ...
Jul 11, 2017 · Ride the High Country. Rating: 3.5 of 5. Filmmaker Sam Peckinpah's 1962 second feature (and first unqualified masterpiece) is a laconic tale about the end of the frontier that both celebrates and deconstructs the romantic view of Old West nobility and heroism. Peckinpah casts two veteran hands of the genre—Randolph Scott and Joel McCrea—as ...
