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Western, Drama 94 min
Rotten Tomatoes89%Metacritic92IMDb
Showdown in the High Sierra!
An ex-lawman is hired to transport gold from a mining community through dangerous territory. But what he doesn't realize is that his partner and old friend is plotting to double-cross him.
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I was never a great fan of Randolph Scott or Joel McCrea when they were churning out their standard western fayre, but putting them together here as couple of ageing veterans works really quite well. “Judd” (McCrae) used to be a marshal, but now he’s picking up work when and where he can and his latest job is to escort a gold shipment through some risky territory. He decides that he will need a bit of help so ropes in his old friend “Gil” (Scott) and his friend “Heck” (Ron Starr). What we know but he doesn’t, is that they intend to appropriate the gold for themselves. You get the sense that “Gil” would sooner work with his old partner, but let’s just say it’s not going to stop them if he declines. Along the trail they encounter the young “Elsa” (Mariette Hartley) who lives with her oppressive father (R.G. Armstrong) and is pledged to the nasty piece of work that is “Billy” (James Drury). She and “Heck” hit it off and the latter suggests he take her away from the brutality. Initially sceptical, “Judd" reluctantly agrees and off they go - with “Billy” and his even more despicable brothers following them. Though he’s now distracted by his gal, “Heck” and “Gil” are still focussed on re
Read the whole review on TMDBRevisonist splendour as Peckinpah starts his thematic obsession. "All I want is to Enter My House Justified" Sam Peckinpah's second feature film is today standing up as a must see and must own for those interested in the Western genre. The film sees ageing lawman Steve Judd land a job of escorting a gold shipment safely to a bank in Hornitos. After running into old friend, and fellow aged lawman Gil Westrun, he hires both he and his young sparky sidekick Heck Longtree to hopefully see the job through to a successful conclusion. Yet Gil has other ideas, for where Steve is upstanding and adhering to the values he has lived his life by, Gil sees this as one last chance to actually get a big payday. The journey takes a further twist as the three men meet and then save Elsa Knudsen from a brutal marriage, it's an incident that puts them all on a collision course with the Hammond brothers. What we have here is Sam Peckinpah's first film dealing with men who have outlived their time. We witness some emotionally poignant stuff as the two main protagonists know that they have aged beyond their world, yet as alike as they are, they have different ideals in how to deal with the advent of time
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