Ride the High Country
Directed by Sam Peckinpah
- tonylisNovember 19, 2024Peckinpah at his lyrical best. Two great central performances form Joel McRea and Randolph Scott with great support from Warren Oates ,James Dury and john Anderson. If you are a Western fan you probably have already seen it, but it's still worth watching again and again. A Class Classic. If you're new to Westerns this is a great place to start.
Ride the High Country Trivia
Ride the High Country was released on May 9, 1962.
Ride the High Country was directed by Sam Peckinpah.
Ride the High Country has a runtime of 1h 33m.
Ride the High Country was produced by Richard E. Lyons.
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 desire to escape first from her father, then from her fiance and his dangerously psychotic brothers.
The key characters in Ride the High Country are Gil Westrum (Randolph Scott), Steve Judd (Joel McCrea), Elsa Knudsen (Mariette Hartley).
Ride the High Country is rated Approved.
Ride the High Country is a Western, Drama, Action film.
Ride the High Country has an audience rating of 8.3 out of 10.
Ride the High Country had a budget of $813K.