
Code of the West according to Peckinpah: Ride the High Country
Review created: 10/01/01
by: George_Chabot-- a member of Epinions and Advisor in Movies
Pros:
Joel McCrea, Randolph Scott, Direction, Story, Photography, Score
Cons:
Needs to be recognized as the masterpiece it is.
Ride the High Country (1962) "All I want is to enter my house justified." Steve Judd Director Sam Peckinpah had an abiding interest (perhaps obsession) in several themes - friendship, trust, honor, betrayal, aging, and rise of modern times/end of the old West. He explored those themes at least twice I'm aware of, in his better known The Wild Bunch, a 1969 film unfairly remembered more for its blood-spattered violence than its immaculate production values, and this lesser known gem: Ride the High Country. Both Peckinpah's films featured a pair of aging protagonists who had made their marks in..
Review ID: 10000000000685623

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