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| | Crystal's Classics: Randolph Scott |
 | | Born George Randolph Crane, on 23 January 1898, Orange County, Virginia, to George and Lucy 'Scott' Crane, while the couple were on a visit to Virginia, and was raised by them in Charlotte, North Carolina. |
 | | Scott was still in top physical condition, but his face had become weary and weatherbeaten; this physical aspect, combined with his deliberate characterizations of soft-spoken, fatalistic, yet supremely self-reliant "Western Though Guy", brought a new dimension to Scott's performances that, sadly, has been much ignored until recent years. |
 | | Scott's last movie was, arguably, one of his greatest: "Ride the High Country" 1962, directed by Sam Peckinpah and teamed with an old friend and fellow horse-opera favorite Joel McCrea in a touching, elegant tale of aged gunfighters, now on opposite sides of the law, reunited in one last adventure. |
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