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- 1962
- Approved
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
- 1 h 34 m
- 1962
- Approved
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
- 1 h 34 m
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.
Directed By: Sam Peckinpah
Written By: N.B. Stone Jr., William Roberts, Sam Peckinpah
- 1962
- Approved
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
- 1 h 34 m
- 1962
- Approved
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
- 1 h 34 m
Ride the High Country
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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.
Directed By: Sam Peckinpah
Written By: N.B. Stone Jr., William Roberts, Sam Peckinpah
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 11 Critic Reviews
92
100% Positive
11 Reviews
11 Reviews
0% Mixed
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0% Negative
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The action is underpinned by the men's nostalgic reminiscences and regretful ruminations. A masterclass in unobtrusive film-making. [17 Mar 2014, p.29]
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.
Peckinpah's attention to detail and character makes this film a multifaceted jewel to be studied and enjoyed again and again. The honest, subtle, and consummately skillful performances by Scott and McCrea and promising newcomer Mariette Hartley continue to draw viewers in.
Perhaps the most simple and traditional and graceful of all modern Westerns.
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. That's mainly down to the two stars, leathery veterans Joel McCrea and Randolph Scott. [12 Aug 2006, p.53]
Peckinpah's superb second film, a nostalgic lament for the West in its declining years, with a couple of great set pieces (the bizarre wedding in the mining camp, the final shootout among the chickens).
It is Sam Peckinpah’s direction, however, that gives the film greatest artistry. He gives N. B. Stone Jr.’s script a measure beyond its adequacy, instilling bright moments of sharp humor and an overall significant empathetic flavor.
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Awards
National Film Preservation Board, USA
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Grand Prix de l'UCC
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
BAFTA Awards
• 1 Nomination
