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Overview"Director Sam Peckinpah was just starting out when he made Ride the High Country in 1962. He was a new kind of director: young, brash, and in a hurry to help the Western ""grow up"" by treating it with adult themes. Ride the High Country was something new and different, a changing Western to match a changing West. Stars Randolph Scott and Joel McRea were old hands at this sort of thing. Ride the High Country gave the two veteran actors one last job to do and a chance to go out with some dignity. Ride the High Country helped the genre mature and adapt to turbulent, changing times. It launched Peckinpah's career by invoking the themes of honor, loyalty, and compromised ideals, the destruction of the West and its heroes, and the difficulty of doing right in an unjust world--themes developed to their pinnacle in Peckinpah's later masterpiece, The Wild Bunch." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Robert NottPublisher: University of New Mexico Press Imprint: University of New Mexico Press Weight: 0.272kg ISBN: 9780826366085ISBN 10: 0826366082 Pages: 152 Publication Date: 31 March 2024 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsReviews"""Nott's telling of the saga of the making of this classic is fresh and eye-opening. It is essential reading for fans of Westerns and Peckinpah's work.""—W. K. Stratton, author of The Wild Bunch: Sam Peckinpah, a Revolution in Hollywood, and the Making of a Legendary Film" """Nott's telling of the saga of the making of this classic is fresh and eye-opening. It is essential reading for fans of Westerns and Peckinpah's work.""--W. K. Stratton, author of The Wild Bunch: Sam Peckinpah, a Revolution in Hollywood, and the Making of a Legendary Film" "Nott's telling of the saga of the making of this classic is fresh and eye-opening. It is essential reading for fans of Westerns and Peckinpah's work."" - W. K. Stratton, author of The Wild Bunch: Sam Peckinpah, a Revolution in Hollywood, and the Making of a Legendary Film" Author InformationRobert Nott is the author of The Films of Randolph Scott; Last of the Cowboy Heroes: The Westerns of Randolph Scott, Joel McCrea, and Audie Murphy; and The Films of Budd Boetticher. He is also the coauthor, with Max Evans, of Goin' Crazy with Sam Peckinpah and All Our Friends (UNM Press). He has been a reporter for the Santa Fe New Mexican for the last twenty years. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |