# Ride the High Country (1962)

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**Runtime**: 94 min
**Genres**: Western
**Directed by**: Sam Peckinpah
**Written by**: N.B. Stone Jr.
**Starring**: Randolph Scott, Joel McCrea, Mariette Hartley, Ron Starr, Edgar Buchanan, R.G. Armstrong

> *Showdown in the High Sierra!*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

A dying marshal teams with his old friend to haul a mining fortune. But the friend wants the gold, and the marshal wants one last clean ride. Peckinpah’s last black-and-white oater rides off with two men who can’t outrun their pasts.

**Mood tags**: bittersweet, slow-burn, tender

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