Search results
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 ...
Wuchakk 13 May 2017. Released in 1962, "Ride the High Country" was Sam Peckinpah's second feature film and arguably his best Western; yes, better than the overrated "Wild Bunch" (1969). While it lacks that movie's slow-motion ultra-violence, it has a superior story and more interesting characters.
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. Starring screen legends Randolph Scott ("The Last of the Mohicans") and Joel McCrea ("The Virginian"). Co-starring Emmy-winner Mariette Hartley ("Peyton Place"). Inducted into the Library of Congress National Film ...
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. Starring screen legends Randolph Scott ("The Last of the Mohicans") and Joel McCrea ("The Virginian"). Co-starring Emmy-winner Mariette Hartley ("Peyton Place"). Inducted into the Library of Congress National Film ...
Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 3, 2003. Bosley Crowther New York Times. TOP CRITIC. Symbols of a waning era who eventually clash over right and wrong, Messrs. McCrea and Scott mesh ...
Summary An ex-union soldier is hired to transport gold from a mining community through dangerous territory. But what he doesn't realize is that his partner and old friend is plotting to double-cross him. Drama. Western. Directed By: Sam Peckinpah.
