The Ride Back

The Ride Back
Theatrical release poster
Directed byAllen H. Miner
Screenplay byAntony Ellis
Produced byWilliam Conrad
StarringAnthony Quinn
William Conrad
Lita Milan
Victor Millan
Jorge Treviño
CinematographyJoseph F. Biroc
Edited byMichael Luciano
Music byFrank De Vol
Production
company
The Associates & Aldrich Company
Distributed byUnited Artists
Release date
  • April 29, 1957 (1957-04-29)
Running time
79 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

The Ride Back is a 1957 American Western film directed by Allen H. Miner and written by Antony Ellis. The film stars Anthony Quinn, William Conrad, Lita Milan, Victor Millan and Jorge Trevino and was produced by Conrad. It was released on April 29, 1957, by United Artists.[1][2] It was partially filmed in Wildwood Regional Park in Thousand Oaks, California.[3]

It was produced by Robert Aldrich who called it "a good Western with psychological overtones".[4]

Plot

Lawman Chris Hamish is recruited to bring gunfighter Bob Kallen back for trial on unspecified charges. Hamish is a brooding haunted man who has been a failure at everything he has done and even his own wife scorns him. Kallen, on the other hand, is very confident, charismatic and decent at heart. This Western was rather novel because it was an intense character study of the two protagonists as they embark on their odyssey. Along the way, Hamish admits to his prisoner that he wants to bring him in not so much in the name of justice, but for his own self redemption. Stalked by blood-thirsty Apaches and picking up an orphaned child whose family the Apaches have murdered, the lawman and the outlaw are forced to rely upon each other for survival and in the end develop a bond of admiration and respect.

Cast

Production

Aldrich had admired a documentary on tuna fishing directed by Miner.[4]

The basis of the storyline was the June 28, 1952 episode of the radio version of Gunsmoke with the same title also written by Ellis.[5]

References

  1. ^ "The Ride Back (1957) - Overview - TCM.com". Turner Classic Movies. Retrieved October 25, 2014.
  2. ^ "The Ride Back". TV Guide. Retrieved September 23, 2022.
  3. ^ Schneider, Jerry L. (2015). Western Filming Locations Book 1. CP Entertainment Books. Page 116. ISBN 9780692561348
  4. ^ a b Aldrich, Robert (2004). Robert Aldrich : interviews. University Press of Mississippi. p. 14.
  5. ^ Jack French, David S. Siegel, editors. Radio Rides the Range: A Reference Guide to Western Drama on the Air, 1929-1967. Jefferson NC: McFarland & Co., 2014. p.71.


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