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| Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | Release Date: May 9, 1962 |
Starring:
Edgar Buchanan, James Drury, Jenie Jackson, Joel McCrea, John Anderson, L.Q. Jones, Mariette Hartley, R.G. Armstrong, Randolph Scott, Ron Starr
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.
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Despite studio indifference, this was perhaps the one time in his career Sam Peckinpah enjoyed an uncomplicated, nearly universal critical response: The movie was instantly hailed as a modern Western classic. [18 May 1997, p.81]
When you see a great Peckinpah film like his second feature, Ride the High Country (1962), you feel that the director has found a way to tell a story that lays his own soul across the screen. This movie celebrates a hero of self-control. But each frame is energized with a sense of what that self-control has cost the man in love, friendship, and glory.
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Perhaps the most simple and traditional and graceful of all modern Westerns.
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