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Old 02-03-2023, 12:53 AM   #14465
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The Wild Bunch - 4/4

Perfect.

Ride The High Country - 3.5/4

A forgotten classic. No showboating in any way, pure performance. Peckinpah wasn’t all stunts. He knew a great story could work on its own if he had no cash for big explosions.

The Ballad Of Cable Hogue - 3/4

Brilliant but sketchy. Sympathy is hard to come by but that ending is pretty good. Unique at least. Another performance based western. Westerns were all about story and scenery usually, at least until big budgets allowed for your Peckinpah style violence and grit. I always like a Randolph Scott style film where it’s about law, order and sorting it all out within 90 minutes. This film is like somebody just made a western without any cool stuff and only really grim, dirty reality. It works because Jason Robards is the perfect Everyman and his antics are really a sideshow towards a story that feels a little bit more advanced for a Western.
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