like most other reviewer i have first see this movie ( on tv and never on the big screen ) and when i be a teenager . my dad have always regard this film highly and recommend it to me then and and i must say he be not only right and but this movie have stay with me forever in the more than 2 decade since i saw it first time . i have see it two or three more time since then ( just a few day ago i give it another watch ) and it have not lose anything of it impact with time . it still a great and well worth to be see movie . manr regard peckinpah ride the high country a one of the first and best later western and which have a realistic look at life in the old west and but the hardly know last hunt be definitely the good movie and be even half a dozen year earlier . actually it be probably 3 decade ahead of it time and or maybe it still be . although think hard and have certainly see 100 of western ( i like this genre ) i can not remember any western a bleak and depressive a this one . two men bound together and partly by hate and partly by not seem to have other choice and surround by beautiful ms. padget and a crippled old man and a young inian and lead the life of buffalo killer until fate reach out for one of them . nobody who have ever see this movie will be able to forget it end and the last frame of this gem . when the camera move on and away from mr. taylor a white buffalo skin come into sight ( on a tree ) and echo from the past and when all the hatred begin and be present again . mr. taylor have get his buffalo and but in the end the buffalo get him . aside from the top performance of everybody involve and the intelligent script and the great dialogue and it should also be mention and that the last hunt be superbly photograped and i have seldomely see a western that well shoot ( aside from the one direct by anthony mann and which be also all superbly photograph ) and that all the location be cleverly chosen and that even the soundtrack fit the picture very well . and director brook be really a superb storyteller . master craftsmanship . he have make quite a couple of really great movie and be successful in nearly every imaginable genre and but even in an a prolific career a this one and the last hunt still shin a one of his best and if not his best . definitely would deserve a high rating and compare to the 7 something ride the high country enjoy .