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Release Date: 1962

Cast: R.G. Armstrong, Warren Oates, Joel McCrea, John Anderson, Randolph Scott, Mariette Hartley, Jenie Jackson, L. Q. Jones, Edgar Buchanan, James Drury, Ron Starr

Categories: Movies, Revisionist Western, Action, Western, Action/Adventure

Ride the High Country is a noted 1962 American Western film. It stars Joel McCrea, Randolph Scott, Ron Starr, Edgar Buchanan and Mariette Hartley. It was written by N.B. Stone Jr., Robert Creighton Williams (uncredited) and Sam Peckinpah (uncredited) and directed by Peckinpah, with a score written by George Bassman and filmed in the Inyo National Forest, CA. In 1992, this film was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry by the United States Library of Congress as being deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". A Region 1 DVD edition was released on... MORE

Ride the High Country is a noted 1962 American Western film. It stars Joel McCrea, Randolph Scott, Ron Starr, Edgar Buchanan and Mariette Hartley. It was written by N.B. Stone Jr., Robert Creighton Williams (uncredited) and Sam Peckinpah (uncredited) and directed by Peckinpah, with a score written by George Bassman and filmed in the Inyo National Forest, CA. In 1992, this film was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry by the United States Library of Congress as being deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". A Region 1 DVD edition was released on January 10, 2006. The film features Scott in his final role as he had decided to retire. Initially, McCrea also had announced his intentions to retire, but he later changed his mind. Peckinpah flipped a coin to decide whether Randolph Scott or Joel McCrea would receive top billing while the three of them and producer Richard Lyons where having lunch at the Brown Derby. McCrea's role is actually slightly larger than Scott's, but Scott was billed over McCrea. Much of the filming took place at Mammoth Lakes, California, with some studio and lot work, and shooting at Bronson Canyon in Griffith Park and LESS