Ride the High Country (released in the UK as
Guns in the Afternoon) is a 1962 American
Western film directed by
Sam Peckinpah and starring
Randolph Scott,
Joel McCrea, and
Mariette Hartley. The supporting cast includes
Edgar Buchanan,
James Drury,
Warren Oates, and Ron Starr. The film's script, though credited solely to veteran TV screenwriter N. B. Stone, Jr., was – according to producer Richard E. Lyons – almost entirely the work of Stone's friend and colleague,
William S. Roberts, and Peckinpah himself.