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Ride the High Country
Why this pick
Like Monte Walsh, it is a melancholy farewell to an aging West, built around weathered horsemen whose loyalty and hard-earned codes are tested by a changing world.
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MOVIE1970 1h 46m USA
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Lonely Are the Brave
Why this pick
A spare, elegiac modern Western about a stubborn cowboy outliving his era, with the same sense of freedom slipping away and a deeply humane central performance.
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The Ballad of Cable Hogue
Why this pick
Its dusty humor, tender romance, and gradual awareness of modernity encroaching make it a warmly bittersweet companion to Monte Walsh’s end-of-the-frontier mood.
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The Cowboys
Why this pick
It shares Monte Walsh’s ranch-life texture, plainspoken masculinity, and affectionate attention to working cowboys, while giving its cattle drive a more urgent dramatic edge.
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Junior Bonner
Why this pick
This unhurried portrait of a rodeo rider returning home has the same lived-in Western atmosphere, bruised pride, and affection for men trying to preserve a fading way of life.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
Monte Walsh is an aging cowboy facing the final days of the Wild West era. He and his friend Chet Rollins, another longtime cowhand, work at whatever ranch work comes their way, but "nothing they can't do from a horse". Their lives are divided between months on the range and the occasional trip into town. Camaraderie and competition with the other cowboys fill their days. They seek work and take a job at the ranch of Cal Brennan, where they meet an old friend, Shorty Austin, another ranch hand.
02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Lee Marvin
Monte Walsh
Jeanne Moreau
Martine Bernard
Mitchell Ryan
Shorty Austin
John Hudkins
Sonny Jacobs
Raymond Guth
Sunfish Perkins
John McKee
Petey Williams
Tom Heaton
Sugar Wyman
Bo Hopkins
Jumpin' Joe Joslin