Ride the high country 1962 cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. Ride the high country trailer directed by sam peckinpah and starring randolph scott, joel mccrea, ron starr, edgar buchanan, r. I have liked randolph scott and joel mccrea for awhile now and they both make great westerns. Ride the high country movie quotes rotten tomatoes.
Ride the high country vigorously and colorfully brings alive the. Watch ride the high country starring randolph scott in this western on directv. Although the movie was completed in only 26 days, peckinpah ran into. The film s plot is predictable, but contains many themes that peckinpah would explore in his later career and a nostalgia for the older western pictures. Ride the high country 1962 full movie download full hd. Sam peckinpahs early career highlight ride the high country 1962, now regarded as a classic, was initially dumped into theaters as the lesser half of double features but eventually earned its own release. Holden, borgnine, ryan and edmond obrien are particularly effective in roles that make their previous toughguy characterizations look transparent. Ride the high country explicit please retry amazon music unlimited. Theyd both been at it awhile by the time the film was shot in 1961 mr. This is no exception and with it now in hd, you cannot go wrong. The farmer is a tormented sinner obsessed with scripture a staple character in melodrama. Reviewed in the united states on january 11, 2018 i have liked randolph scott and joel mccrea for awhile now and they both make great westerns.
Released at the tail end of the western genre, and virtually thrown away by mgm, ride the high country feels like an elegy for the western itself and peckinpah himself would go on to revise western conventions with such later efforts as the wild bunch 1969 and pat garrett and billy the kid 1973. Writerdirector stuart gordon returned to the world of live theater in 2009 with productions of nevermore starring his old friend jeffrey combs as edgar allan poe and 2011s reanimator the musical the title says it all. Ride the high country, american western film, released in 1962, that was a revisionist take on the genre. The warner archive collection bluray of ride the high country is a welcome surprise. Ride with randolph and mccrea, ride tall1962 nshepard. Randolph scott felt that, at the age of 63 he was unlikely to find a role in a film so well conceived and constructed, and opted to hang up his screen spurs after completing the film. Ride the high country released internationally as guns in the afternoon is a 1962 american western film directed by sam peckinpah and starring randolph scott, joel mccrea, and mariette hartley. Ride the high country bluray disc, 2017 for sale online.
The image is very sharp, black levels are excellent, and the grain structure gives this bluray a pleasing, film like appearance. In this film an aging sheriff named judd is hired to protect a shipment of gold from a nearby mine. Watch ride the high country online 1962 movie yidio. Ride the high country dvd, 2006 for sale online ebay. Judd hires his friend gill and a young man named heck to assist him with the job. Ride the high country was not only a farewell to the oldstyle western, it was also the last film of one of the genres most faithful and dependable stars. Ride the high country movie trailer and videos tv guide. An exunion soldier is hired to transport gold from a mining community through dangerous territory.
Its available to watch on tv, online, tablets, phone. When the rough cut was complete, mgm editorial maven margaret booth wanted to adjust the whole picture up to mgm standards. The far country 1954 approved 1h 37min romance, western 19 march 1955 japan a selfminded adventurer jeff webster locks horns with a crooked lawman mr. Ride the high country 1991 cast and crew moviefone. Ride the high country film by peckinpah 1962 britannica. The basically retired randolph scott and joel mccrea saddled up once more and seeing the two of them in here made me so damn greedy. Readers are encouraged to read the comments of our resident expert, robert a. They take a job as guards who protect a shipment of gold. Ride the high country is the one sam peckinpah movie about which there has. Ride the high country was an incredibly lucky film. The film is rough around the edges, and you can tell its before peckinpah hit his stride, but its still got some great location shooting and decent cinematography. But their last film ride the high country stands as an a western and a very good one too. Watch ride the high country full movie in hd visit movie 36206 an exlawman is hired to transport gold from a mining community th. Oscars best picture winners best picture winners golden globes emmys san diego comiccon new york comiccon sundance film festival toronto intl film festival awards central festival central all events.
Gil randolph scott and steve joel mccrea are two proud former lawmen coping with the changing times after helping settle the wild west. One, if not the best, westerns ever made, featuring two of the greatest stars ever to ride off into a sunset. Using everything that came before and predicting everything that came after, ride the high country can now be seen as the lynchpin in the history of the entire western genre. See the full list of ride the high country cast and crew including actors, directors, producers and more. Popularly viewed as peckinpahs first accomplished film following the compromised the deadly companions 1961, ride the high country 1962 has been mostly seen as the directors farewell to the traditional western formula while incorporating features that faintly anticipate future creative developments in his work 1. Ride the high country began filming on location at mammoth lake, near bishop, california but a freak snowstorm forced the production to close down and peckinpah was ordered to move his cast and crew to the mgm backlot at bronson canyon in hollywood to complete the film.
When bad weather ruined the mountain location shoot producer lyons had bronson caverns redressed to look like a sierratop mining camp, and got away with it. In 2014 he produced and directed taste, a play based on the true life story of the man who put a helpwanted ad on the internet for someone he could. Ride the high country is a 1962 american western film directed by sam peckinpah and starring randolph scott, joel mccrea, and mariette hartley. Ride the high country dvd 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. Cast and crew credits for ride the high country, 1962, directed by sam peckinpah, with randolph scott, joel mccrea, mariette hartley, at turner classic movies. Sam peckinpah gives two western greats a welldeserved finale to two amazing careers. Ride the high country, major dundee has, first of all, made a magnificently directed and acted film. Watch ride the high country movie trailers, exclusive videos, interviews from the cast, movie clips and more at.
Read about the ride the high country dvd and browse other dvd movies. While peckinpah purportedly hated the score by george bassman, he was wrong, just as he was wrong about initially hating. Watch ride the high country online stream full movie. Ride the high country trailer turner classic movies. The bravados classic western, full movie, gregory peck, english free full western films. 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 exlawman steve judd played by joel mccrea has fallen on hard times. But what he doesnt realize is that his partner and old friend is plotting to doublecross him. Unknown to steve, the restless gil and a young drifter intend to steal the next gold transport. Ride the high country is moralistic even as westerns go, but it takes a halfstep away from simplicity. Ride the high country a muchloved revisionist western, director peckinpahs second feature film proved to be a bittersweet swan song for the old west and a classy farewell to the screen for. The supporting cast includes edgar buchanan, james drury, warren oates, and ron starr. Sam peckinpah randolph scott, joel mccrea, mariette hartley, warren oates, l. Ride the high country, is in many ways an oldfashioned buddy picture, with randolph scott and joel mccrea in the leads.
On the way, the men help elsa knudsen mariette hartley to break free from her zealot father. Ride the high country indeed provides a real moral tale about temptation and redemption. A small western that deserves appreciation and a lot of viewings. Gill and heck are planning to double cross judd and steal the gold. While offering no real challenge to the achievements of later. Reduced to transporting gold from a distant mine to a smalltown bank, retired lawman steve judd joel mccrea recruits friend gil westrum randolph scott, who has been performing in a traveling carnival. Perhaps they owe this final chance to director sam peckinpah who turns the story into a splendid film in its genre shot in beautiful outdoor sceneries, with very well managed action scenes, a credible script, great settings and a fine musical score too. With joel mccrea, randolph scott, mariette hartley, ron starr. Watch ride the high country full movie in hd visit an exlawman is hired to transport gold from a mining community th. Randolph scott and joel mccrea in ride the high country 1962 randolph scott and mariette. He takes a job transporting gold deposits from a mining. But his feeling for flavorsome dialogue, rabelaisian humor, and fullblooded.