Ride the High Country (1962)

An above average Western featuring two of the genres most recognizable stars Joel McCrea and Randolph Scott (in his last film). Both men have a history together as outlaws but McCrea has gone straight and is now in charge of getting the gold from the mines to the bank. To help him he hires his old friend Scott who along with a young hothead (Ron Starr) is in town dressed up like “Buffalo Bill” and demonstrating his fancy shooting. Scott believes he can persuade his old partner to split the gold with him before they return and must act as a buffer between the impatient young ruffian and his old friend. While en route the three encounter a religious farmer (R. G. Armstrong) and his under socialized daughter (Mariette Hartley) who steals away to join them. The trouble really begins when they get to the remote mining town encountering an inbred mountain family of hoodlums (which includes Warren Oates) and its judge (Edgar Buchanan) . Directed by Sam Peckinpah (The Wild Bunch (1969)) and written by N.B. Stone Jr. it was added to the National Film Registry in 1992.

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