Ride the High Country Reviews
Combustible Celluloid
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.
Movie Metropolis
...great entertainment: humorous, adventurous, inventive, and enthralling.
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| Original Score: 8/10
Filmcritic.com
Ride the High Country vigorously and colorfully brings alive the Old West of cinematic myth.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Top CriticSymbols 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.
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| Original Score: 4/5
culturevulture.net
A film of abundant visual beauty through whose heart blows a chill valedictory breeze.
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| Original Score: 9/10
TV Guide's Movie Guide
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.
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| Original Score: 5/5
Ozus' World Movie Reviews
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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| Original Score: A
