Ride In The Whirlwind details
| Format: | PG DVD |
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| Starring: | Cameron Mitchell, Millie Perkins, Katherine Squire, Jack Nicholson |
| Director: | Monte Hellman |
| Genre: | Action/Adventure - Westerns |
| Studio: | ORBIT MEDIA LTD. |
| Name | Discs | |
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Ride In The Whirlwind |
PG Feature |
DVD Information
| Run time: | 1 hour 17 minutes |
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| Rental release: | 28 Feb 2005 |
| Main languages: | English |
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Melancholy Tale Of Lost Men
By iggsta from England , 05 Jul 2005[Highly rated reviewer]
Back in 1965 Roger Corman asked for a director to shoot two westerns penned by a young man named Jack Nicholson who was cutting his teeth on Corman vehicles at the time. He asked for one of the fellas that just directed the Karloff vehicle 'The Terror' later seen parodied in Bogdanovich's opening to 'Targets', and since Coppola wasn't available, Monte Hellman got the job. The two movies were 'The Shooting' and 'Ride In The Whirlwind', two of the most underrated westerns of the 1960s.
Three cowboys Filer, Nicholson, Mitchell are mistaken for a gang of outlaws and are hunted down relentlessly by a posse. They are forced to take a small family hostage, but their pleas of innocence fall on deaf ears. Millie Perkins plays the daughter of the family with great oddball excentricity, and the whole film bubbles with the kind of melancholy, eccentric humour that one might expect from the saddest Jarmusch film.
It's one of the only westerns I've seen where the characters speak with authentic simplicity, such as when Nicholson sees a hanging man and simply says "Man gets hung.". It's a very young America, and the film carries with it a childish naivety that feels like a sort of morality tale. It's charming, deeply moving, funny and highly unique; a produce of an independant Hollywood system that could no longer exist, and HIGHLY recommended viewing.- Was this review helpful to you?
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(3)Old film
By a customer from Luton England , 18 Mar 2006It is a slow boring movies, and showing it's age- Was this review helpful to you?
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Enjoyable Lesser Known Western
By a customer from Leeds, England , 23 Aug 2005If you're after an uplifting, good guy beats the bad guy in frontierland kinda Western then this isn't for you but if you like a bit of dirt with your beans then add this to your selection. It's a simple enough plot - 3 pals find themselves in the wrong place at the wrong time, are assumed guilty of a violent crime they didn't commit and end up having to run for their lives) but it's nicely played and, at around 90 minutes, just the right length.- Was this review helpful to you?
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Melancholy Tale Of Lost Men
By iggsta from England , 05 Jul 2005Back in 1965 Roger Corman asked for a director to shoot two westerns penned by a young man named Jack Nicholson who was cutting his teeth on Corman vehicles at the time. He asked for one of the fellas that just directed the Karloff vehicle 'The Terror' later seen parodied in Bogdanovich's opening to 'Targets', and since Coppola wasn't available, Monte Hellman got the job. The two movies were 'The Shooting' and 'Ride In The Whirlwind', two of the most underrated westerns of the 1960s.
Three cowboys Filer, Nicholson, Mitchell are mistaken for a gang of outlaws and are hunted down relentlessly by a posse. They are forced to take a small family hostage, but their pleas of innocence fall on deaf ears. Millie Perkins plays the daughter of the family with great oddball excentricity, and the whole film bubbles with the kind of melancholy, eccentric humour that one might expect from the saddest Jarmusch film.
It's one of the only westerns I've seen where the characters speak with authentic simplicity, such as when Nicholson sees a hanging man and simply says "Man gets hung.". It's a very young America, and the film carries with it a childish naivety that feels like a sort of morality tale. It's charming, deeply moving, funny and highly unique; a produce of an independant Hollywood system that could no longer exist, and HIGHLY recommended viewing.- Was this review helpful to you?
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