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Rating: 6.5 stars

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Ride the High Country (1962)

Directed by Sam Peckinpah

Western | Drama | Romance

Most recently watched by sleestakk

Overview

An ex-lawman 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.

Rated NR | Length 94 minutes

Actors

Randolph Scott | Joel McCrea | Mariette Hartley | Ron Starr | Edgar Buchanan | R.G. Armstrong | Jenie Jackson | James Drury | L.Q. Jones | John Anderson | John Davis Chandler | Warren Oates | Alice Allyn | Oscar Blank | Chet Brandenburg | Don Brodie | Chris Carter | Byron Foulger | Frank Hagney | Percy Helton | Victor Izay | Don Kennedy | Jack Kenny | Donald Kerr | Mina Martinez | Charles McQuary | Michael T. Mikler | Spec O'Donnell | Carmen Phillips | Myrna Ross | Wayne Tucker | Chalky Williams

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Viewing Notes

From my new German box set of Peckinpah westerns from the Plaion label. Great packaging with postcards of the lobby cards for each movie and an extensive booklet (that’s in German).

Mariette Hartley does a great job as the wanna-be-tough-but-actually-just-innocent-and-adorable country girl that tags along with two grizzled old-timers played by Joel McCrea and Randolph Scott, who may or may not be on the same side. Hartley is cute as a button in this.

This plays out in a space between the time-honored conventional westerns that came before it and the neo-westerns of the New American cinema that came after without really belonging in either.

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