Ride the High Country
Ride the High Country (released internationally as Guns in the Afternoon) is a 1962 American CinemaScope Western film directed by Sam Peckinpah and starring Randolph Scott, Joel McCrea, and Mariette Hartley. The supporting cast includes Edgar Buchanan, James Drury, Warren Oates, and Ron Starr. The film's script, though credited solely to veteran TV screenwriter N.B. Stone Jr., was – according to producer Richard E. Lyons – almost entirely the work of Stone's friend and colleague, William S. Roberts, and Peckinpah himself.
Plot
In the early 20th century, aging ex-lawman Steve Judd is hired by a bank to transport gold from a high country mining camp to the town of Hornitos. Six miners were recently murdered trying to transport a gold shipment. Judd was once respected, but his threadbare clothes and spectacles show that he is long past his prime. He enlists his old friend and partner Gil Westrum to guard the gold transfer. Gil, who makes his living claiming to be a legendary sharpshooter named The Oregon Kid, recruits his young sidekick, Heck Longtree.
More details
| author | Sam Peckinpah William Roberts |
|---|---|
| contentLocation | California |
| director | Sam Peckinpah |
| editor | Frank Santillo |
| events | old age |
| genre | western |
| keywords | 20th century build claim coarsegold dead brother domineer extrajudicial gold shipment hear high country kill married mining camp morning after murder old friend older men ore outnumber retire set up sierra nevada wait wedding night wound |
| musicBy | George Bassman |
| producer | Richard E. Lyons |
| productionCompany | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
| publisher | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |