Ride the High Country (1962)
Ride the High Country (1962)
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Release DateJune 20, 1962
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 34m
Content RatingNR
Budget$813,000
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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. In 1992, Ride the High Country was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry by the United States Library of Congress as being deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significantThe film featured Scott's final screen performance. After this film, Joel McCrea did not make another feature film until 1970. That year saw him make Cry Blood, Apache, with his son his son Jody. He appeared in The Young Rounders in 1972. His final film appearance was in 1976 in Mustang Country.