Sadly...it hasn't been released on DVD. It played on Turner Classic Movies in September.......appropriately letterboxed for its Cinemascope presentation.........and announced beforehand on the Western forum here at IMDB. I suggest that you watch for it on TCM......I taped it ...& although it needs a proper restoration & DVD treatment befitting such a good film.....it's still a pleasure to watch.
If you live around in or around the NYC area, on March 30th and 31st of this year, the film is being played on a double bill with The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, at the Film Forum theater (209 W. Houston St. in Manhattan).
Doggone it. Just another reason why I wish I lived in NYC! Not too much of a chance of something like that happening in my town. We only have one theater that shows a few independent and classic films in a rare blue moon. But a couple of years ago, they had a memorial film festival featuring some of the favorite films of a man who was instrumental in keeping the theater going, and I got to see "Bullitt" on the big screen! Wow! It's cliche, but they really do not make them like they used to!
I wish "Ride The High Country" was available on DVD. And also, while not in the same genre, "Lonely Are The Brave." I saw it on an Encore channel a couple of weeks ago, and had not seen it since around 1967. Great movie!
Well, you never know- sometimes a movie will play in a theater like the Film Forum in NYC as a pre-emptive move before it goes to DVD; Samuel Fuller's The Big Red One theatrically premiered in NYC at that theater (I saw it beforehand at the NY Film Festival last October), and it's a likely sign it will be coming to DVD soon. So keep your fingers crossed- I am even more certain that they'll put Major Dundee out on DVD later on this year, as the unseen extended version (missing only six minutes of Peckinpah's original director's cut, a vast improvement) is premiering at the theater in April. It's a cool theater to check out of you'd ever have the chance to visit NYC, albeit at $10 a pop for a movie (unless you get lucky to see a double feature for ten).
Ride the High Country is now available on DVD, and I have seen it as low as $9.99. Its also featured in a new Sam Peckinpah western box-set, along with Wild Bunch, Pat Garret and Billy the Kid, and The Ballad of Cable Hogue.
You can also catch RTHC on HDNet, where its in its current run, played a few times a week in hi-def.