Ride the High Country

An essay by film historian John DiLeo about the film Ride the High Country (1962) directed by Sam Peckinpah and starring Joel McCrea and Randolph Scott. Excerpted from John DiLeo’s Screen Savers II: My Grab Bag of Classic Movies, “Ride the High Country (1962): Sunset for Two Western Legends.” It’s easily Joel McCrea’s best western; it contains one of his all-time top performances; and it united him with Randolph Scott, another genre.