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Ride the High Country
a.k.a. Guns in the Afternoon Director: Sam Peckinpah Cast: Joel McCrea, Randolph Scott, Mariette Hartley, Ron Starr

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  • DVD Release Date: 01/10/2006
  • Original Release: 1962
  • Rating: Not Rated
  • Sales Rank: 14,790

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Closed Caption; New featurette A Justified Life: Sam Peckinpah and the High Country; Commentary by Peckinpah biographers/documentarians Nick Redmanm, Paul Seydor, Garner Simmons and David Weddle; Sam Peckinpah trailer gallery

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Disc #1 -- Ride the High Country
1. Credits [1:32]
2. Old-timers Reunion [5:44]
3. Man for the Job [4:11]
4. Heck of a Partner [4:31]
5. The Knudsens [3:03]
6. Preaching and Propositioning [4:20]
7. Wrong Kind of Man [5:42]
8. Expectations [5:32]
9. A Matter of Character [6:12]
10. Coarsegold [5:12]
11. Wedding Preliminaries [4:40]
12. Kate's Place [3:48]
13. Saloon Ceremony [4:22]
14. There Goes the Bride [3:53]
15. A Matter of Posession [5:03]
16. Tonight We Move [3:12]
17. Confrontation [2:27]
18. Hillside Challenge [5:12]
19. No Future In Out Partnership [2:02]
20. I'll Be There [2:00]
21. Ambush [2:58]
22. Halfway Like Always [3:04]
23. So Long, Partner [2:40]

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This Sam Peckinpah-directed feature outing was intended as the cinematic swan song for both Randolph Scott and Joel McCrea; while McCrea would unexpectedly emerge from retirement, this 1961 western serves as an excellent valedictory for both men. The time is the early 1900s, when the Old West was slowly and stubbornly giving way to the new. McCrea plays Steve Judd, an ex-lawman living on the fringes of poverty but maintaining his dignity and honesty. Hired to escort a gold shipment from the wide-open mining town of Coarse Gold, he engages his old pal Gil Westrum (Scott) to help him. But Gil hasn't Steve's integrity, and he and his young saddle pal Heck Longtree (Ronald Starr) hope to talk Steve into helping them steal the gold. En route to Coarse Gold, the three riders spend the night at the farm of a religious fanatic (R.G. Armstrong), whose daughter Elsa (Mariette Hartley in her film debut), chafing at her father's loud piety, is planning to elope with her boyfriend Billy (James Drury). The next day, Elsa insists on joining up with the group so she can marry Billy at Coarse Gold, leading to numerous complications and, of course, a final shoot-out that allows Steve and Gil to reconcile their differences and pave the way for the film's elegiac finale. Released at the tail end of the western genre, and virtually thrown away by MGM, Ride the High Country feels like an elegy for the western itself -- and Peckinpah himself would go on to revise western conventions with such later efforts as The Wild Bunch (1969) and Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (1973). Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

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