Ride the High Country (1962)

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A Top Ten Western of All Time
by mbsgirl in mbsgirl Blog

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"This film is generally considered one of the top ten westerns of all time--right along with "Shane", "Red River" and "High Noon." When the film was released, it was considered a bomb (and an undesirable throwaway) by the film studio/company. How wrong they were--because this film has stood the test of time! The film has majesty and honor all over it. Sam Peckinpah did a magnificent job, as director, but this film is not centered on bloody violence--as his later films were. Even though I viewed this film several years ago, it still impacts me today! See it and enjoy it! Anonymous film lover " [More]

AFI's 10 Top 10: Western
by ShaunHuston in ShaunHuston filmblog

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"The Western Top 10 is the toughest for me. As some of you may know, while I'm hardly Richard Slotkin or Jane Tompkins, I write, teach, and think about this genre on a regular basis, and, as a result, my views are not only fairly strong, but well-informed. And, where certain well regarded classics are concerned, they are also iconoclastic. This is probably nowhere more obvious than with The Searchers (1956), the film that tops the AFI list. This film does not resonate with me on any level. I have never found the ending credible. John Wayne does not portray Ethan Edwards with any of the complexity needed for his embrace of Debbie (Natalie Wood) to ring true after his 118 (or so) minutes of hard, racist ranting about Native Americans and his intent to kill her. I also find the photography and production design to be garish without purpose, and for all of its superficial sophistication about Native peoples, the talk of ritual, the use of indigenous language, it only serves to perpetuat ... " [More]

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