# Ride the High Country **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 27, 2008, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ride-the-high-country/457905 "2008-07-27T03:34:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2008, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ride-the-high-country/457905/1 "2008-07-27T03:34:06Z")
I just saw this excellent western this afternoon. A brief joke was enjoyed; when Gill Westrum (Randolph Scott) takes a gold dust deposit from a Belle Watley type, he comments, “You must have a good claim.” She giggles, “Well, it _is_ a gold mine. You should come see it sometime.” ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2008, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ride-the-high-country/457905/2 "2008-07-27T03:51:31Z")
I love this movie; one of the best kind of post-Western deconstructionist Westerns. Another brilliant movie, more of an anti-Western, is Delmer Daves’s _Cowboy_. Nasty, dark piece of work that systematically demolishes all the cherished myths of the Western mystique. ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2008, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ride-the-high-country/457905/3 "2008-07-28T16:18:09Z")
_RtHC_ is indeed a magnificent movie, with one of the most beautiful closing shots of any film I know, and it’s a great precursor to Peckinpah’s masterpiece _The Wild Bunch_ seven years later (the terrific Warren Oates is in both films). I love it particularly because it’s a film about aging and staying true to yourself as the world changes around you, starring two absolutely wonderful actors in one of their final films: Joel McCrea and Randolph Scott. I can’t say I’m as big a fan of _Cowboy_, but that’s because I think Jack Lemmon is woefully miscast (though Glenn Ford, as usual, is spot-on). ---
**Author:** ![Rocketeer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocketeer/32/4437_2.png) [@Rocketeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rocketeer)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2008, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ride-the-high-country/457905/4 "2008-07-28T20:14:15Z")
This is the one with the almost-surrealist wedding sequence, right? What a great movie.