Is Ride the High Country actually good?

Ride the High Country sits in the 94.1% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 94.1% of them.

How does Ride the High Country compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1960s, Ride the High Country lands in the 92.5% percentile. The cohort comparison exists because a global rank flatters or punishes a film for its category rather than its quality.

How many reviewers is Ride the High Country's score based on?

136 calibrated reviewers stand behind Ride the High Country's score.

1962

global pct

94.1

Film · 1962 · Films · 1960s

Ride the High Country

Name: Ride the High Country
Genre: Drama, Western
Released: 1962

Scored from 136 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1960s (1,929 peers).

94.1%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

92.5%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1960s · 1,929 titles

99.1%

AI-adjusted percentile

136 calibrated reviewers

Summary

Two aging former lawmen, Steve Judd and Gil Westrum, take a job escorting a gold shipment down from a remote mining camp in the High Sierras. Along the way they pick up a young woman fleeing her strict father to marry a miner, only to find her intended groom is one of a clan of brutish brothers. The journey forces the two old friends to confront their diverging codes of honor.

Ride the High Country is a 1962 drama and western film.

Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 1,928 1960s films, not against the whole corpus. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 188 of whom clear the calibration test. The calibrated figure is built from 136 of its IMDb reviewers. A broader pool of 138 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead.

Is Ride the High Country (1962) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 1960s · 1,929 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 136
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 1960s

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