{"product_id":"ride-the-high-country-paperback","title":"Ride the High Country - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRobert Nott\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDirector Sam Peckinpah was just starting out when MGM released \u003ci\u003eRide the High Country\u003c\/i\u003e in 1962. He was a new kind of director: young, brash, and in a hurry to help the Western grow up by treating it with adult themes. \u003ci\u003eRide the High Country\u003c\/i\u003e was something new and different, a changing Western to match a changing West. Stars Randolph Scott and Joel McCrea were old hands at this sort of thing. \u003ci\u003eRide the High Country\u003c\/i\u003e gave the two veteran actors one last job to do and a chance to go out with some dignity. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eRide the High Country\u003c\/i\u003e helped the genre mature and adapt to turbulent, changing times. It launched Peckinpah's career by invoking the themes of honor, loyalty, and compromised ideals, the destruction of the West and its heroes, and the difficulty of doing right in an unjust world--themes developed to their pinnacle in Peckinpah's later masterpiece, \u003ci\u003eThe Wild Bunch\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRobert Nott \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Films of Randolph Scott\u003c\/i\u003e;\u003ci\u003e Last of the Cowboy Heroes: The Westerns of Randolph Scott, Joel McCrea, and Audie Murphy\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eThe Films of Budd Boetticher\u003c\/i\u003e. He is also the coauthor, with Max Evans, of \u003ci\u003eGoin' Crazy with Sam Peckinpah and All Our Friends\u003c\/i\u003e (UNM Press). He has been a reporter for the \u003ci\u003eSanta Fe New Mexican\u003c\/i\u003e for the last twenty-five years.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 152\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 6.7 x 4.7 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 01, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53489338024243,"sku":"9780826366085","price":28.55,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/XoL2L7vC-s9780826366085.webp?v=1781522561","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/ride-the-high-country-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}