Ride the High Country (Peckinpah, 1962): Prince Charles Cinema, 6pm
This film is part of the Sam Peckinpah season at the Prince Charles. Full details here.
Time Out review:
Sam Peckinpah's superb second film, a nostalgic lament for the West in its
declining years, with a couple of great set pieces (the bizarre wedding
in the mining camp, the final shootout among the chickens).
Affectionately funny as Randolph Scott and Joel McCrea, once more hired and
temporarily in harness, creak rheumatically while climbing off their
horses, turn aside from the trail to bathe aching feet, and sport long
woolly combinations for bed. But also achieving an almost biblical
grandeur as the two oldtime lawmen, fallen upon hard times and suddenly
realising that the world has left them behind, contrive not to fall
from grace and self-respect when a tempting gold shipment comes between
them. Truly magnificent camerawork from Lucien Ballard.
Tom Milne
Here (and above) is the trailer.
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