Ride the High Country

Sam Peckinpah’s classic western stars Randolph Scott as a lawman turned sharpshooter who plans to steal gold from a remote mining town. With Joel McCrea., Sam Peckinpah’s elegiac Western, with Randolph Scott and Joel McCrea as two ageing cowboys reflecting on their lives., Classic low-budget Western starring Randolph Scott as a former lawman-turned-carnival sharpshooter who plans to steal the gold when he joins his one-time colleague Joel McCrea to transport bullion from a remote mining camp to a small-town bank., Sam Peckinpah’s elegiac Western, with Randolph Scott and Joel McCrea as two ageing cowboys reflecting on their lives. A bittersweet salute to a lost age., Sam Peckinpah’s elegy for the Old West is set in the early 1900s, where two former lawmen are hired to transport gold from a mining camp to a town bank, and one of them develops a notion to steal the gold for himself., Western classic in which once-respected, now down-on-his-luck lawman Steve Judd accepts the job of transporting gold from a remote mining camp to a small town bank. Judd meets his former colleague Gil Westrum and his young assistant, who agree to join Judd, but plan to steal the gold en-route., This 1961 Western stars Randolph Scott, Joel McCrea as two old-time lawmen whose long-standing virtue has not brought them many riches. They are sorely tempted when a gold shipment comes their way. Funny, wry and with some wonderful set pieces., Gil (Randolph Scott ) and Steve (Joel McCrea) are two proud former lawmen coping with the changing times after helping settle the wild West. They take a job as guards who protect a shipment of gold. They also protect the virtues of young Elsa (Mariette Hartley) when a bevy of bad brothers attempt to make her the object of their criminal carnal desires. Edgar Buchanan plays wise Judge Tolliver, with James Drury, L. Q. Jones and Warren Oates play the brothers who are after the gold and the girl. This film was directed by Sam Peckinpah.