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Symbols of a waning era who eventually clash over right and wrong, Messrs. McCrea and Scott mesh perfectly, with the latter getting the drollest lines -- and there are plenty.
Using everything that came before and predicting everything that came after, Ride the High Country can now be seen as the lynchpin in the history of the entire Western genre.
Peckinpah gets to play around with the ideas of loyalty, respect, codes of honor, and shades of gray between good and evil.
...great entertainment: humorous, adventurous, inventive, and enthralling.
There are plenty of small details that evoke the real West rather than an imagined one, as well as subplots that recognize a shrinking frontier and a near absence of stereotypes and stock dialogue.
Ride the High Country vigorously and colorfully brings alive the Old West of cinematic myth.
A film of abundant visual beauty through whose heart blows a chill valedictory breeze.
A much-loved revisionist Western, director Peckinpah's second feature film proved to be a bittersweet swan song for the Old West and a classy farewell to the screen for actors Scott and -- for some years -- McCrea.
A superior Western featuring two of that genre's greats, Joel McCrea and Randolph Scott, who were both in their 60s at the time...
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