Ride the High Country (1962)
Genres: Western
Cast: Joel McCrea, Randolph Scott, Mariette Hartley, James Drury, Warren Oates, R. G. Armstrong, L. Q. Jones
Ride the High Country is a 1962 American CinemaScope Western film directed by Sam Peckinpah and starring Randolph Scott, Joel McCrea, and Mariette Hartley. The supporting cast includes Edgar Buchanan, James Drury, Warren Oates, and Ron Starr. The film's script, though credited solely to veteran TV screenwriter N. B. Stone Jr., was – according to producer Richard E. Lyons – almost entirely the work of Stone's friend and colleague, William S. Roberts, and Peckinpah himself.