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The Ballad of Cable Hogue
Why this pick
Peckinpah brings the same elegiac farewell-to-the-West feeling, pairing rough frontier comedy with a deeply humane portrait of an aging man outlasted by modernity.
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MOVIE1962 1h 34m USA
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The Shootist
Why this pick
An aging gunman confronts mortality and a changing world in this restrained, intimate late Western, driven more by dignity, regret, and character than by gunfights.
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Monte Walsh
Why this pick
This unhurried, autumnal Western follows longtime cowhands made obsolete by progress, sharing Ride the High Country’s affection for male friendship, weathered integrity, and endings without easy triumph.
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The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid
Why this pick
A reflective revisionist Western with an offbeat surface, it finds poignancy in outlaws whose mythology and skills no longer fit the world forming around them.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
In the early years of the 20th century, an aging ex-lawman, Steve Judd (Joel McCrea), is hired to guard a shipment of gold from a high country mining camp to the town of Hornitos, California. Six miners were recently murdered trying to transport their gold on the one trail leading down from the crest of the Sierra Nevada (U.S.). In his prime, Judd was a tough and respected lawman, but now his threadbare clothes and spectacles serve as reminders that he is long past his prime. Judd enlists the help of his old friend and partner Gil Westrum (Randolph Scott) to guard the gold shipment. Gil, who makes his living passing himself off as a legendary sharpshooter named The Oregon Kid, enlists the help of his young sidekick, Heck Longtree (Ron Starr).
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Joel McCrea
Steve Judd
Ron Starr
Heck Longtree
Edgar Buchanan
Judge Tolliver
Jenie Jackson
Kate
James Drury
Billy Hammond
Warren Oates
Henry Hammond
John Anderson
Elder Hammond
Mariette Hartley
Elsa Knudsen