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Dominican Rep. Ride the High Country
- Original title
- Ride the High Countryaka
- AKA
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- Guns in the Afternoon
- Year
- 1962
- Running time
- 94 min.
- Country
United States- Director
- Screenwriter
- Cast
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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- See all credits
- Music
- Cinematography
- Producer
- Genre
- Western. Adventure | Old Age / Elderly. Friendship
- Synopsis
- Aging lawman Steve Judd (Joel McCrea) takes a job transporting gold from the Sierra Nevada mining town of Coarsegold, and hires old pal Gil Westrum (Randolph Scott) not knowing that Westrum and his callow sidekick Heck Longtree (Ron Starr) intend to abscond with the paydirt. On the way they pick up Elsa Knudsen a runaway farm girl hoping to marry Billy Hammond, a miner. But she doesn't realize that Billy is only one of a bunch of uncouth Hammond boys, a near-feral group with no respect for the bonds of marriage.
- Rankings Position
- Awards
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1962: BAFTA Awards: Nominated to Best Promising Newcomer (Hartley)
- Critics' reviews
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"Peckinpah's attention to detail and character makes this film a multifaceted jewel to be studied and enjoyed again and again"
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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"
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"Perhaps the most simple and traditional and graceful of all modern Westerns."
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"Peckinpah's marvellous elegiac western incorporates the themes of 'The Wild Bunch' - the end of the old west, friendship and betrayal - but is more moving than his blood-soaked epic."
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- Ranking Lists Position
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- 32 My Favorite Westerns (224)
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