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Actor: Edgar Buchanan, James Drury, Joel McCrea, John Davis Chandler, Randolph ScottBrand: Warner Brothers
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 1.0; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 1.0
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.78:1
Running Time: 94 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-01-10
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Warner Home Video
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Movie Review: "Ride the High Country (1962) ... Randolph Scott & Joel McCrea ... Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Classic Western"
Summary: 5 Stars
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer presents "RIDE THE HIGH COUNTRY" (1962) (94 mins/Color) (Dolby digitally remastered) --- Starring Randolph Scott, Joel McCrea, Mariette Hartley, Ron Starr & Edgar Buchanan --- Directed by Sam Peckinpah and released in July 28, 1962, our story line and film, 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 ... Sam Peckinpah's feature film directorial debut was intended as the cinematic swan song for both Randolph Scott and Joel McCrea and this western serves as an excellent valedictory for both men ... A final shoot-out that allows Steve and Gil to reconcile their differences and pave the way for the film's elegiac finale ... Wonderful character actors of the screen John Anderson, Edgar Buchanan, L.Q. Jones, Warren Oates and James Drury soon to be lead in "The Virginian", TV series --- Randolph Scott and Joel McCrea had come to specialize in many fine westerns, set an admirable style in quiet heroism, always courageous, ever dignified, never vulgar... They ride this time together, ruminating over times that used to be ... Both are heroic figures, having been noted lawmen, and yet they are now reduced to taking whatever comes their way in order to live --- Randolph Scott's and Joel McCrea's last film! ... the film is splendidly directed by Sam Peckinpah --- this will satisfy western lovers of Randolph Scott and Joel McCrea fans alike.
Under Sam Peckinpah (Director), Richard E. Lyons (Producer), N.B. Stone, Jr. (Screenwriter), Lucien Ballard (Cinematographer), George Bassman (Composer (Music Score), Frank Santillo (Editor), Leroy Coleman (Art Director), George W. Davis (Art Director), Henry W. Grace (Set Designer), Otto Siegel (Set Designer), William J. Tuttle (Makeup), Hal W. Polaire (First Assistant Director) - - - - the cast includes Randolph Scott (Gil Westrum), Joel McCrea (Steve Judd), Mariette Hartley (Elsa Knudsen), Ron Starr (Heck Longtree), James Drury (Billy Hammond), Edgar Buchanan (Judge Tolliver), Jenie Jackson (Kate), R.G. Armstrong (Joshua Knudsen), L.Q. Jones (Sylvus Hammond), John Anderson (Elder Hammond), Warren Oates (Henry Hammond), Byron Foulger (Abner Sampson), Percy Helton (Luther Sampson), John Chandler (Jimmy Hammond), Carmen Phillips (Saloon Girl) - - - - Randy Scott had a quiet gentleman nature about him which is not seen in the films of today ... Randy took his job and his responsibility to his audience very seriously ,,, would not settle for anything less than his best ... same was true in his personal life.
SPECIAL FEATURES BIOS:
1. Randolph Scott (aka: George Randolph Scott)
Date of birth: 23 January 1898 - Orange County, Virginia
Date of death: 2 March 1987 - Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California
Special footnote, George Randolph Scott better known as Randolph Scott, was an American film actor whose career spanned the sound era from the late 1920s to the early 1960s ... his popularity grew in the 1940s and 1950s, appearing in such films as "Gung Ho"! (1943) and "Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm" (1938); but he was especially famous for his numerous Westerns including "Virginia City" (1940) with Errol Flynn and Humphrey Bogart, "Western Union" (1941) with Robert Young and "Ride the High Country" (1962) with Joel McCrea (a coin was flipped to see whether Scott or McCrea would receive top billing, and Scott won despite having a slightly smaller role) ... his long fistfight with John Wayne in "The Spoilers" (1942) was frequently cited by critics and the press as the most thrilling ever filmed; they were fighting over Marlene Dietrich ... another smash hit film together that same year called "Pittsburgh" (1942) once again with Dietrich, Scott and Wayne --- Daniel Webster defines "Legend", as being a notable person, or the stories told about that person exploits --- well by the time Randolph Scott made his best films he had long established himself as a legend in the film industry --- they say practice makes perfect, if that is true by 1958 at 60 years of age he was the master with these oaters from the 50s ... "The Cariboo Trail" (1950), "The Nevadan" (1950), "Colt .45" (1950), "Santa Fe" (1951), "Sugarfoot" (1951), "Fort Worth" (1951), "Man in the Saddle" (1951), "Carson City" (1952), "The Man Behind the Gun" (1952), "Hangman's Knot" (1952), "Thunder over the Plains" (1953), "The Stranger Wore a Gun" (1953), "Ten Wanted Men" (1954), "Riding Shotgun" (1954), "The Bounty Hunter" (1954), "Rage at Dawn" (1955), "Tall Man Riding" (1955), "A Lawless Street" (1955), "Seven Men from Now" (1956), "Seventh Cavalry" (1956), "Decision at Sundown: (1957), "Shoot-Out at Medicine Bend" (1957), "The Tall T" (1957), "Buchanan Rides Alone" (1958), "Ride Lonesome" (1959), "Westbound" (1959), "Comanche Station" (1960) --- Scott's age seemed to matter little, they only came to see another Randolph Scott film and always got their money's worth --- Scott's films were good and getting better becoming classics --- so if you wonder "What Ever Happened To Randolph Scott", just rent or purchase one of his films and you'll see he's never left us.
2. Joel McCrea
Date of Birth: 5 November 1905 - South Pasadena, California
Date of Death: 20 October 1990 - Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California
3. Mariette Hartley
Date of Birth: 21 June 1940 - Weston, Connecticut
Date of death: Still Living
4. Sam Peckinpah (Director)
Date of Birth: 21 February 1925 - Fresno, California
Date of Death: 28 December 1984 - Inglewood, California
Hats off and thanks to Les Adams (collector/guideslines for character identification), Chuck Anderson (Webmaster: The Old Corral/B-Westerns.Com), Boyd Magers (Western Clippings), Bobby J. Copeland (author of "Trail Talk"), Rhonda Lemons (Empire Publishing Inc), Bob Nareau (author of "The Real Bob Steele") and Trevor Scott (Down Under Com) as they have rekindled my interest once again for Film Noir, B-Westerns and Serials --- looking forward to more high quality releases from the vintage serial era of the '20s, '30s & '40s and B-Westerns ... order your copy now from Amazon where there are plenty of copies available on VHS, stay tuned once again for top notch action mixed with deadly adventure --- if you enjoyed this title, why not check out VCI Entertainment where they are experts in releasing B-Westerns and Serials --- all my heroes have been cowboys!
Total Time: 94 min on DVD ~ Warner Home Video Video ~ (1/10/06)
Summary of Ride the High Country
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