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Ride the High Country (1962) [ReUp]

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Date: 28 Jan 2015 13:58:00
Ride the High Country (1962) [ReUp]

Ride the High Country (1962)
DVD9 | ISO+MDS | NTSC 16:9 | Cover + DVD Scan | 01:33:52 | 6,16 Gb
Audio: #1 English, #2 French - each AC3 1.0 @ 192 Kbps| Subs: English, French, Spanish
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance

Director: Sam Peckinpah
Stars: Joel McCrea, Randolph Scott, Mariette Hartley

Aging ex-marshal Steve Judd is hired by a bank to transport a gold shipment through dangerous territory. He hires an old partner, Gil Westrum, and his young protege Heck to assist him. Steve doesn't know, however, that Gil and Heck plan to steal the gold, with or without Steve's help. On the trail, the three get involved in a young woman's desire to escape first from her father, then from her fiance and his dangerously psychotic brothers.

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Sam Peckinpah's second feature united aging Western stars Joel McCrea and Randolph Scott in a beautiful meditation on the passing of the West's heroes. Having survived into the automobile age, McCrea's ex-sheriff stoically maintains his honorable values while Scott's Wild West performer parodies himself for cash. Even as a job guarding gold puts them on opposite sides of the law, the need to safeguard the next generation from extremes of piety and pragmatism finally unites them. Devoid of the brutal violence that would mark Peckinpah's later revisonist Western The Wild Bunch (1969), Ride the High Country explores similar ideas with a literate, autumnal approach – although, in Peckinpah's world, violence is still justified to battle the savage remnants of an untamed Western past. Cinematographer Lucien Ballard's spectacular landscapes glorify the waning high country, underscoring Peckinpah's elegy to a better, if difficult, time. MGM buried Ride the High Country on the bottom of a double bill, but critics still noticed its charm and newcomer Mariette Hartley as Elsa; the first of several Peckinpah Westerns eulogizing the genre, it has since come to be seen as one of his best films.
Lucia Bozzola, Rovi
Ride the High Country (1962) [ReUp]

With the help of David Weddle's outstanding biography on Peckinpah, If They Move, Kill 'Em!, here are some historical details surrounding the production. Originally titled Guns in the Afternoon, Peckinpah was originally unsure about taking on the project until he read it. He fell in love with the story, about aging cowboys that were facing a new American west, and he took a pay cut to direct the film. He asked producer Richard Lyons if he could rewrite the script without changing the story and he managed to overhaul the screenplay while still maintaining its 90-minute runtime.

Ride the High Country (1962) [ReUp]

The film was an outstanding effort, the cast knew it (not initially though, as McCrea and Scott almost left, before the decision was made for them to switch roles to the ones onscreen), but when it came to screenings, the film almost didn't make it to a theater. The studio president was so disenchanted with it that he almost didn't release it until finding out most of the work had already been completed. Peckinpah was barred from the lot, and post-production work was done over the phone with Peckinpah on the other end. While it was not popularly received, the critics enjoyed it, and rightfully so.

Ride the High Country (1962) [ReUp]

Much has been made about how McCrea's role was modeled after Peckinpah's father. But the interesting thing to me when watching the film was that if there was a character that one could somewhat attribute to Peckinpah himself, it would be that of Elsa. Like Elsa, Sam was trying to break out of a somewhat rigidly structured family life (his family were primarily businessmen and judges that perhaps stifled what he thought was his true calling), and perhaps once he got what he wanted, maybe (without realizing it) things were a bit overwhelming for him? That can be left for other more knowledgeable fans of Peckinpah to debate over.

Ride the High Country (1962) [ReUp]

For the times, this movie was quite daring and very smart, and that still holds true to a large degree. In the first few minutes, a topless Hartley (with her back to the camera) appears, something that for the times was a little bit shocking, but it's done in such a way that makes it revelatory to the story. McCrea and Scott were both admittedly past their prime and are brave enough to let that show through the course of the film, such as a scene where McCrea reads a contract and has to use glasses in order to read it. The first scene where McCrea runs into Scott is actually somewhat funny, as Scott's character is wearing a Buffalo Bill costume.

Ride the High Country (1962) [ReUp]

I've only seen McCrea in the title role of that underrated 1944 classic of the same name, and I wonder if both men realized that the tongue was firmly planted in the cheek on that. There are other small stylistic touches and performances that would be the foundation of future Peckinpah movies. Oates as Henry Hammond was extremely enjoyable to watch, and Jones has a death scene that is somewhat similar to Slim Pickens' death in Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid, and is quite frankly, a pretty cool death for any actor.

Ride the High Country (1962) [ReUp]

The show is McCrea and Scott's to deliver and they do with flying colors. Even as Scott double crosses McCrea, it's hard to see him realistically going though with it, because, by and large, he's a tough, fair man (take, for example, the scene where he and McCrea punch Heck within a few moments of each other). If McCrea was modeled after Peckinpah's father, it's easy to see why there was a lot of respect given to him by Sam as a boy. This is one of the first Peckinpah films I can ever recall seeing, and to see it all over again was a treat.
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Ride the High Country (1962) [ReUp]
Ride the High Country (1962) [ReUp]

Edition Details:
• Commentary by Peckinpah documentarians Nick Redman, Paul Seydor, Garner Simmons and David Weddle
• New documentary: A Justified Life: Sam Peckinpah and the Hogue Country (22:55)
• Peckinpah trailer gallery

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