But he soon realizes that he can’t talk him into it. When Scott hears from McCrea that there might be as much as $250,000 in gold from the miners he makes plans with Heck to rob that money, hoping he could talk the straight arrow McCrea into going along with his scheme by filling him with stories of how underappreciated and underpaid they were as lawmen and now have nothing to show for it. Heck is wild, irresponsible, hot-headed, and women crazy - but, he fits the pattern of the senior citizen’s own wild youth. Heck Longtree (Ron Starr) is the junior partner of Scott’s and, against McCrea’s better judgment, is talked into being a part of the security team. The aging Steve Judd (Joel McCrea) just hired by the bank, despite them being skeptical that he’s too old for the job, recruits his longtime ex-deputy, the aging Gil Westrum (Randolph Scott), now working in a carnival, into helping him transport a gold shipment from a mining camp to the city bank. They were also impressed with their young director Sam Peckinpah who had made only one feature before in 1961, “Deadly Companions.” Because of their terrific acting skills and Peckinpah’s stylish direction, this film turned out to be one of the better Westerns ever made.
They would be playing aging gunmen, an extension to the many different characters they played in their long film life. This low-budget Western appealed to both stars because it was really a homage to their long careers–where their combined film total must be over a few hundred. This film was meant to be their swan song but McCrea was talked out of retirement to play a few insignificant parts later on, before retiring from films and becoming one of Southern California’s wealthiest ranchers. “A superior Western featuring two of that genre’s greats, Joel McCrea and Randolph Scott, who were both in their 60s at the time…”Ī superior Western featuring two of that genre’s greats, Joel McCrea and Randolph Scott, who were both in their 60s at the time and both accumulated a great deal of wealth due to their wise investments in oil and real estate and livestock. Jones (Sylvus Hammond), John Anderson (Elder Hammond), John Davis Chandler (Jimmy Hammond), Jenie Jackson (Kate), Percy Helton (Luther Sampson) Runtime: ) Armstrong (Joshua Knudsen), Warren Oates (Henry Hammond), L.Q.
cinematographer: Lucien Ballard editor: Frank Santillo cast: Joel McCrea (Steve Judd), Randolph Scott (Gil Westrum), Mariette Hartley (Elsa Knudsen), Ron Starr (Heck Longtree), James Drury (Billy Hammond), Edgar Buchanan (Judge Tolliver), R.G. (director: Sam Peckinpah screenwriter: N.B.
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