What can I say? Ride the High Country(or Guns in the Afternoon) is a beautiful film, gentle, mature and poignant, and as an requiem to the Old West it works wonders. Sam Peckinpah does a brilliant job directing, and the story is absorbing and paced well, helped by a very good script as the two main characters bicker and cuss about whether a gold shipment should be stolen or not.
The film is wondrous to look at, superbly photographed and the CinemaScope and Metrocolor is especially eye catching. The score is wonderful, and the action is excellent. As is the acting, Joel McCrea is great, as is craggy Randolph Scott in his last role, while Warren Oates, LQ Jones and RG Armstrong are marvellous in supporting roles. Not to mention Edgar Buchanan, who is a knockout as a drunken judge.
Overall, a must see for fans of the genre, for especially the visuals and its gentle tone. 10/10 Bethany Cox
The film is wondrous to look at, superbly photographed and the CinemaScope and Metrocolor is especially eye catching. The score is wonderful, and the action is excellent. As is the acting, Joel McCrea is great, as is craggy Randolph Scott in his last role, while Warren Oates, LQ Jones and RG Armstrong are marvellous in supporting roles. Not to mention Edgar Buchanan, who is a knockout as a drunken judge.
Overall, a must see for fans of the genre, for especially the visuals and its gentle tone. 10/10 Bethany Cox