Sam Peckinpah’s career as a Western auteur kicked into his gear with his brilliant second film, the achingly sad, beautiful 1962 western Ride the High Country, which gave long in the tooth cowpokes Randolph Scott and Joel McCrea obscenely juicy roles to play.
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