Randolph Scott stars in director Sam Peckinpah's ode to the taming of the American frontier and passing of the West's values of individual survival and integrity ... as a pair of aging lawmen, for one last time, Ride the High Country. Employed to guard a gold shipment from the lawless Sierra mining town of Course Gold, Gil Westrum (Scott) hires his longtime friend Steve Judd (Joel McCrea) and Heck Longtree (Ron Starr) to ride shotgun. The two, however, have less honorable plans for the gold. But both sets of plans are thrown into disarray when the men encounter Elsa Knudsen (Mariette Hartley) fleeing her violent, religious fanatic father to elope with Billy Hammond (James Drury).