“Symbols of a waning era who eventually clash over right and wrong, Messrs. McCrea and Scott mesh perfectly, with the latter getting the drollest lines — and there are plenty.”
Joel McCrea stars as retired lawman, Steve Judd, reduced to transporting gold from a distant mine to a small-town bank. Judd recruits ageing gunman and old friend Gil Westrum (Randolph Scott), to help guard the gold, not realising that when money is involved his loyalty to Gil may be misplaced... Peckinpah's Ride the High Country is both a loving homage to the long careers of Scott and McCrea and one of the finest revisionist Westerns ever made.