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Dominican Rep. Ride the High Country
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Western. Adventure
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 ... [+]
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TV Guide | "Peckinpah's attention to detail and character makes this film a multifaceted jewel to be studied and enjoyed again and again" | POS |
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United States |
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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" | POS |
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United States |
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"Perhaps the most simple and traditional and graceful of all modern Westerns." | POS |
United Kingdom |
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"Peckinpah's superb second film, a nostalgic lament for the West in its declining years, with a couple of great set pieces" | POS |
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United Kingdom |
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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." | POS |
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