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| Director: Sam Peckinpah
Actors: Joel Mccrea, Randolph Scott, Mariette Hartley, Ron Starr, Edgar Buchanan
Studio: MGM (Warner)
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Rating:  42 reviews
Sales Rank: 16515
Format: Color, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Media: VHS Tape
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 94 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.3 x 4.2 x 1.1
ISBN: 6302032245
UPC: 027616085030
EAN: 9786302032246
ASIN: 6302032245
Theatrical Release Date: 1962
Release Date: April 25, 1994
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Spectacular Western February 19, 1998
Derek Leaberry (Bennett Point, MD)
10 out of 12 found this review helpful
Joel McCrae stars as Steve Judd, an ageing lawman reduced to taking odd jobs in the rapidly civilizing west of the late 1890s. Taking a job transporting gold from a violent mining camp in the High Sierras, Judd hires two men to help in the job, one a friend(Randolph Scott) from law days gone by. The two assistants plot to steal the gold as soon as they are hired and the action gets thick from there. Vital to this movie is the display of Judd's moral code. Judd may be a man just barely hanging on, a supurfluous man in the New West, but he's kept his manly virtues- his strength of character, his wisdom, his courage, and his dignity. However humbled by his circumstances, Judd is a man worthy of emulation. He is a true hero. END
15 stars...5 each for McCrea, Scott and Peckinpah! January 12, 2006
Richardson (Sunny California USA)
10 out of 10 found this review helpful
This may be the best of all Peckinpah westerns and one of the all time great westerns...heck...films of all time IMHO.
The story is not only a classic one but features the acting of two of the genres most well known stars (McCrea and Scott) playing parts that fit perfectly with their age at the time and ....well..
picture Clint Eastwood (Unforgiven era) and Duke Wayne (Rooster Cogburn era) in a Western together about aging cowpokes...on one last job....fighting their conscience and age and ...well...you unsterstand how impossible that is to film..that was a once in a lifetime opportunity and Peckinpah didn't squander a bit of it...from georgously backlit scenes in the old west to perfect dialog and believable story turns....this is a film to cherish and share with friends and loved ones....
anyone that discounts Peckinpah as a director because they think he is all slow motion bullets and blood...needs to see this and RE-think!
It moved me like no other Western has before. March 21, 2006
Russ (California)
9 out of 10 found this review helpful
I first saw this movie in the early 90's. While watching the opening scene where Randolph Scott is working a carnival booth, I thought to myself, "This is going to be a corny movie. 'Not my style". Boy was I wrong. Ride the High Country is a masterpiece, one of my favorite Westerns of all time. The conversations between two old buddies, the "one-liners", the sarcastic remarks, the scenery and settings, it's all great. I'm not going to talk about the story. It's been told enough already. But I will say this. I am not easily moved by what happens in movies. After all, men aren't supposed to be emotional. But, the ending of this movie really got to me. It was the icing on the cake. What a terrific film. Ride The High Country is a must-see for Western buffs or any movie lover.
 A first-rate western with magnificent scenery April 7, 2006
Stephen H. Wood (South San Francisco, CA)
8 out of 10 found this review helpful
RIDE THE HIGH COUNTRY (1962, MGM) is one of four titles in SAM PECKINPAH'S THE LEGENDARY WESTERNS COLLECTION. All four titles go a long way toward placing Peckinpah in the pantheon of western filmmakers. HIGH COUNTRY rates **** (out of ****) from stingy Leonard Maltin, so it is hard to call it a "guilty pleasure." But maybe it should be since it was shut out of the 1962 Oscars. It has a script by N. B. Stone, Jr. and has been magnificently photographed in CinemaScope and Metrocolor by Lucien Ballard on high Sierra and Inyo Forest locations. At their very best, at the end of illustrious film careers, Randolph Scott and Joel McCrea play aging gunfighters lost in time around the 1880's. The Gold Rush era is over, but there is still good money to be made in escorting gold bullion from the top of the California Sierra forests to a frontier town in the valley below. Scott and McCrea are up to the challenge, but hesitate when a preacher's daughter (Mariette Hartley in her film debut) and a tenderfoot come with the deal. "This is a mission for gold, not romance," proclaims one of the two aging men. This superb and intelligent western will come as a revelation to movie lovers who only can think of Sam Peckinpah in terms of poetic bloodbath westerns. It balances lyrical romance with the old mens' code of ethics expertly, and it has been filmed on gorgeous California Gold Rush country locations with glorious performances by everyone. RIDE THE HIGH COUNTRY is a winner for western film devotees.
One of The Last Classic Traditional Westerns and One of The First Modern Westerns October 24, 2006
Terence Allen (Atlanta, GA USA)
7 out of 8 found this review helpful
Ride The High Country is one of those curious works of art that bridges the past and the present, combining the best of both worlds while being extremely enriching and satisfying on its own merits. The first major film of legendary film director Sam Peckinpah, it stands with his other Western film The Wild Bunch as two of the greatest film of its, or any other genre.
Featuring two actors who were indivisibly synomous with Western films, Joel McCrea and Randolph Scott, and featuring supporting performances by Ron Starr, Mariette Hartley, RG Armstrong, Warren Oates, LQ Jones, James Drury and Edgar Buchanan, the film tells what seems like a fairly simple story, and makes it violently poetic and elegiac all at once.
McCrea and Scott play two aging ex-lawmen who are living out their remaining years in vastly different ways. McCrea picks up odd transport and security jobs because he's now too old to be a lawman. Scott performs in a Wild West show because he'd rather act that cling to a life of serving the law. When McCrea asks Scott's help in transporting miners' gold, Scott sees an opportunity to get rich quick, and along with his young sidekick, join McCrea in the hopes of convincing McCrea of running off with the gold. Along the way, they run into a sheltered farm girl who runs off and marries Drury, who comes from a family of backwoods maniacs. And so the story goes...
Ride The High Country is traditional in its casting of solid, if older Western stars like McCrea and Scott, traditional in the values espoused by McCrea, those of loyalty, honor, and sacrifice. The film is modern in how it depicts the two older men as products of a rapidly bygone era that is not loyal, does not honor, and in fact sacrifices them at the expense of modern life. The film has its cake and eats it too because it is wonderfully made, wonderful written, and wonderfully acted.
Randolph Scott, who had become a very wealthy man and made movies for the enjoyment and not out of necessity, left acting forever after appearing in Ride The High Country. He knew he would never make a greater film, and in fact, this was the best Western he ever made, even surpassing the great Westerns he made with Budd Boetticher.
Ride The High Country will always be mentioned when great Westerns and great films of all kinds are discussed.
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