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Programme Information

Sam Peckinpah's elegiac Western, with Randolph Scott and Joel McCrea as two ageing cowboys reflecting on their lives as they guard a shipment of gold and save a young bride. A bittersweet salute to a lost age.

Keywords:

Adventure, Drama, Western, Movie, Film, Movies, Films

Additional Information:

(1962) (USA) (4 Star)

Cast:

Joel McCrea	.... Steve Judd
Randolph Scott	.... Gil Westrum
Mariette Hartley	.... Elsa Knudsen
Ron Starr	.... Heck Longtree
Edgar Buchanan	.... Judge Tolliver at Coarse Gold
R.G. Armstrong	.... Joshua Knudsen

Supporting Cast:

Jenie Jackson	.... Kate
James Drury	.... Billy Hammond
L.Q. Jones	.... Sylvus Hammond
John Anderson	.... Elder Hammond
John Davis Chandler	.... Jimmy Hammond
Warren Oates	.... Henry Hammond

Directors:

Sam Peckinpah

Writers:

N.B. Stone Jr