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The film's setting

posted 20 years ago by boardwalk_angel
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I've read all the comments here...& there are some wonderful insights and good things to say regarding this terrific movie.
I'd just like to add my take on the setting of the film...& its relevance.
It was filmed...as well as set in California....significantlly not Texas..not Oklahoma...not Kansas..etc........but the last stop..the end..as far as you can go..the "end of the West".......befitting one of the important themes in the film.

"Ride the High Country " needs to be restored & given the proper DVD treatment that it deserves.

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[–] slayer-3 17 years ago

California...

California is also stated when the Hammonds confront Macrea and Scott, telling them there is another license on file at (some) office, I forgot which office, in California.

"$200,000 is a lot of Money. We're gonna have to Earn It."

Blondie to Angel Eyes and Tuco

[–] macliggett1 16 years ago

Peckinpah was raised in the area where this takes place and is part of the reason that it takes place where it is, Corsegold(sp) east of Fresno. He supposedly incorporates some of the folk lore of the area that he heard growing up.

[–] rac701 16 years ago

The High Sierras...northeast California, near the Nevada state line...

[–] turtletommy 16 years ago

According to the new DVD's commentary Peckinpah based the town in the film after the actual town near where he was raised, Coarsegold, east of Fresno, CA. The "High Sierra" is NOT in NE Calif., it specifically refers to the highest part of the Sierra mtn chain- from south of Lake Tahoe to just south of Sequoia Nat'l Park. Coarsegold is 25 miles south of Yosemite National Park, which geographically is in the east-central part of the state.

http://www.highsierrahikers.org/sierra.html

[–] eric-57 15 years ago

A lot of the film was shot around Lake Mary in Mammoth Lakes. You can see Crystal Crag above Lake Mary in many of the shots. I rent a cabin up there for a week every September - it's beautiful.