Review of Ride the High Country (1962) by Michael Sragow for Austin Chronicle — 27 Jul 1969
When you see a great Peckinpah film like his second feature, Ride the High Country (1962), you feel that the director has found a way to tell a story that lays his own soul across the screen. This movie celebrates a hero of self-control.
But each frame is energized with a sense of what that self-control has cost the man in love, friendship, and glory.
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This review of Ride the High Country (1962) was written by Michael Sragow and published by Austin Chronicle on 27 Jul 1969.
Ride the High Country has generally received very positive reviews.
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