Ride the High Country
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Ride the High Country

Year:
Duration:
94 min
Genres:
Western
IMDB rate:
7.6
Director:
Sam Peckinpah
Awards:
Nominated for BAFTA Film Award. Another 2 wins & 1 nomination
Details
Country: USA
Release Date: 1962-07-28
Filming Locations: 20th Century Fox Ranch, Malibu Creek State Park - 1925 Las Virgenes Road, Calabasas, California, USA
Cast
Actor
Character
Edgar Buchanan
Edgar Buchanan
Ride the High Country
Randolph Scott
Gil Westrum
Joel McCrea
Steve Judd
Mariette Hartley
Elsa Knudsen
Ron Starr
Heck Longtree
R.G. Armstrong
Joshua Knudsen
Jenie Jackson
Kate
James Drury
Billy Hammond
L.Q. Jones
Sylvus Hammond
John Anderson
Elder Hammond
John Davis Chandler
Jimmy Hammond
Warren Oates
Henry Hammond
Alice Allyn
Candy (uncredited)
Chet Brandenburg
Miner (uncredited)
Don Brodie
Spieler (uncredited)
Chris Carter
Rose (uncredited)
Byron Foulger
Abner Sampson (uncredited)
Frank Hagney
Miner (uncredited)
Percy Helton
Luther Sampson (uncredited)
Victor Izay
Jake (uncredited)
Don Kennedy
Policeman on Street (uncredited)
Jack Kenny
Miner (uncredited)
Donald Kerr
Spieler (uncredited)
Mina Martinez
Belle (uncredited)
Charles McQuary
Townsman (uncredited)
Michael T. Mikler
Hank (uncredited)
Spec O'Donnell
Pianist (uncredited)
Carmen Phillips
Saloon Girl (uncredited)
Myrna Ross
Dancehall Girl (uncredited)
Wayne Tucker
Wes (uncredited)
Chalky Williams
Townsman (uncredited)
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Trivia
In the original script, Randolph Scott's character doesn't survive the climatic shoot-out but Joel McCrea's does. During Sam Peckinpah's rewrite, he felt it more poignant that the Gil Westrum character (played by Scott) is redeemed by promising the dying Judd that he will deliver the gold, so the characters' outcome were reversed.
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In the late 1980s Charlton Heston considered starring in a remake with Clint Eastwood. Heston accepted the title role in Major Dundee (1965) after seeing this film.
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Randolph Scott tried to interest Budd Boetticher in doing the film, but the director was in Mexico tied up with his documentary "Arruza."
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Goofs
When Gil pours Judge Tolliver a whiskey he tosses aside the cork which falls down the back of the chest. When he replaces the bottle the cork is beside it.
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There are a number of indications that this film is set no later than the late 1890s or early 1900s - for example, the date of Elsa's mother death on her tombstone and the open automobile (characteristic of early twentieth century models). The heavily-worn dime that Judd (Joel McCrea) bets in the booth run by Westrum (Randolph Scott) in the opening scenes, however, is a "Mercury" (Winged Liberty) dime, first coined in 1916. The dime shown, moreover, could not have become so worn without several more years in circulation.
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Joel McCrae, when a riding horse with heavy leather riding gloves on, opened a pocket knife. This is impossible unless it was handed to him partially opened.
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Quotes
Steve Judd: I'm gonna put you behind bars, Gil.
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Steve Judd: All I want is to enter my house justified.
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Judge Tolliver: You know, a good marriage has a kind of simple glory about it. A good marriage is a rare animal, hard to find - almost impossible to keep.
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Photos from cast
Edgar Buchanan
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