Film, Video Web Page Ride the high country

Title

• Ride the high country

Summary

• Two aging gunmen accept the job of transporting gold from a mining camp back to town. One views the commission as a means of regaining his self-respect. The other intends to steal the gold. The men eventually join forces to protect the gold shipment and a young woman from a brutal gang of brothers.

Names

• Peckinpah, Sam, 1925-1984, direction.
• Lyons, Richard E., 1921-1989, production.
• Stone, N. B. (Norris B.), writing.
• Ballard, Lucien, 1908-1988, camera.
• Bassman, George, 1914-1997, music.
• Scott, Randolph, 1898-1987, cast.
• McCrea, Joel, 1905-1990, cast.
• Hartley, Mariette, cast.
• Buchanan, Edgar, 1903-1979, cast.
• Drury, James, 1934- cast.
• Jones, L. Q., 1927- cast.
• Oates, Warren, 1928-1982, cast.
• Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
• Turner Entertainment Co. Collection (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

• United States : Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1962.

Headings

• -  Male friendship--Drama
• -  Gold mines and mining--Drama
• -  Robbery--Drama

Genre

• Feature films
• Fiction films
• Western films

Notes

• -  LP21459 U.S. Copyright Office
• -  Copyright: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Inc.; 9Mar62; LP21459.
• -  The title, Guns in the afternoon is given as a prerelease title or as the British title in sources.
• -  Director of photography, Lucien Ballard ; music composed and conducted by George Bassman ; art direction, George W. Davis and Leroy Coleman ; film editor, Frank Santillo.
• -  Randolph Scott, Joel McCrea, Mariette Hartley, Ron Starr, Edgar Buchanan, James Drury, L.Q. Jones, John Anderson, John Davis Chandler, Warren Oates.
• -  William S. Roberts and Sam Peckinpah are listed as uncredited screenwriters in D. McKinney, Sam Peckinpah, p. 253.
• -  This film was selected for the National Film Registry.
• -  Sources used: McKinney, D. Sam Peckinpah, p. 253; New York times film reviews, 6/21/62, p. 3331; Hardy, P. The Western, p. 282; AFI catalog, features 1961-70.
• -  theatrical projection print, master pos, and track; Received: 2/7/1994; deposit; Turner Entertainment Co. Collection.
• -  Partially screened for credits only.

Medium

• theatrical projection print. 11 film reels of 11 on 6 (ca. 94 min., 8,420 ft.) : anamorphic, sd., col. ; 35 mm.
• master pos. 11 film reels of 11 (ca. 94 min., ca. 8,420 ft.) : anamorphic, si., red ; 35 mm.
• master pos. 11 film reels of 11 (ca. 94 min., ca. 8,420 ft.) : anamorphic, si., green ; 35 mm.
• master pos. 11 film reels of 11 (ca. 94 min., ca. 8,420 ft.) : anamorphic, si., blue ; 35 mm.
• master mag track. 11 film reels of 11 on 6 (ca. 94 min., ca. 8,420 ft.) : sd. ; 35 mm.

Call Number/Physical Location

• CQA 0629-0634 (theatrical projection print)
• CPA 0585-0595 (red)
• CPA 0596-0606 (green)
• CPA 0607-0617 (blue)
• FQA 9353-9358 (mag track)

Library of Congress Control Number

• 94509891

Online Format

• web page
• image

LCCN Permalink

• https://lccn.loc.gov/94509891

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