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Ride In The Whirlwind

1966, Movie, G, 82 mins

Ride In The Whirlwind: Review

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Nicholson wrote, coproduced, and costarred in this low-budget western which was purportedly written after he had pored over various frontier diaries he found at the Los Angeles Public Library. He would have been better off reading a few good western scripts at the Motion Picture Acadamy. Hellman's direction is flat, and the acting is mostly a lot of talk with hardly any point in it. Nicholson, Mitchell, and Filer are itinerant cowpokes who have employment as part of a cattle roundup. On their trip to the job, they note the result of a vigilante lynching swaying in the wind and shake their heads at the fate of the victim. They decide to rest at a mountain cabin and walk in on Stanton (who now uses the name Harry Dean Stanton), the one-eyed leader of a gang of murderers who've just killed a stagecoach driver. Stanton is pleasant to the trio, offering them a place to rest their heads, as well as some booze and food. Sheriff Carroll's posse soon surrounds the cabin. Stanton and his men are captured and hanged by the posse. Filer is killed, and Mitchell and Nicholson, who are totally innocent (but go tell that to a bloodthirsty posse), have to run for their lives. They arrive at the cabin of George Mitchell, a homesteader, and rest their horses. Nicholson now thinks Perkins, the rancher's daughter, might be a good hostage. When Cameron Mitchell tries to steal George Mitchell's horses, he is shot down by the latter, thus forcing Nicholson to kill the old man. He then runs off, now a fullfledged killer who will, no doubt, eventually wind up swinging for it. It's an endless chase across the desolate Utah landscape, with good photography from Sandor, but not much else. The film had trouble getting a distributor, but was finally picked up by Favorite Films and Jack H. Harris, the schlockmeister who gave us THE BLOB and PUSSYCAT A GO-GO. leave a comment
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