Ride The High Country (1962)
Two aging gunslingers sign on to transport gold from a remote mining town.
Cast: Randolph Scott, Joel McCrea, Mariette Hartley, Ron Starr Dir: Sam Peckinpah C-94 mins, TV-PG. 6:15 PM. TCM
True Grit is on at 4:00 PM before this and while I like that film a lot, I don’t think it’s even in the Duke’s Top5 and most of you have probably seen it — so watch it again followed by this film. Peckinpah is in fine form and Scott and McCrea wear their age well here — and there’s even Mariette Hartley for Lars (she’s at least Scandinavian!) and even Warren Oates makes an appearance. This was Scott’s last film in a career starting in the late 1920s and a fitting capstone to a legendary career of Westerns (and even roles in a couple of Fred and Ginger films). Before True Grit is Alvarez Kelly at Noon– also a fine Western followed by Will Penny with Charlton Heston.
A couple of interesting films earlier in the day is Mr. Sardonicus (4:15 AM) about a man whose face is frozen in a permanent smile and his “hiring” a doctor to fix him — interesting and creepy. At 8:30 AM is Humphrey Bogart’s final film The Harder They Fall a fine film about boxing, corruption, and the media. It’s an under-appreciated film given Bogey’s legendary work in a host of other films.
Prime time has a slate of crime films. At 8:00 PM is White Heat with the Great James Cagney and at midnight is the Fritz Lang directed The Big Heat — a nice vengeance piece with a cop avenging the murder of his wife by gangsters.
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I don’t think Mariette Hartley is Scandinavian (though she played one on M*A*S*H*), but she suffers from a psychological disorder, which probably qualifies her for honorary status. I like her, anyway.
I guess with the cheekbones and the blond hair I just assumed Scandinavian — she plays a character named Olsen in this film I believe.
nice movie. nice score by George Bassman, too. :-p
Will Penny is a fine film,one of Heston’s best.Wonderful supporting cast,Lee Majors and Anthony Zerbe among it.A great treat is British actor Donald Pleasance,a truly loony villian(equally loony is his son,played by the great Bruce Dern).