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The Ride Back
A troubled sheriff, a failure at everything in his life, tries to redeem himself by extraditing a popular gunfighter from Mexico to stand trial for murder.
| Release : | 1957 |
| Rating : | 6.6 |
| Studio : | United Artists, The Associates & Aldrich Company, |
| Crew : | Art Direction, Set Decoration, |
| Cast : | Anthony Quinn William Conrad Lita Milan Victor Millan |
| Genre : | Drama Western |
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Simple and well acted, it has tension enough to knot the stomach.
A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.
Worth seeing just to witness how winsome it is.
Extremely BORING (and I mean it) and slow Western, redeemed in the last 10 minutes by a serviceable, nice enough ending. Even the humdrum song sung by the noted actor Eddie Albert delivered a nice touch at the ending. Boring even though the famous Robert Aldrich is one of the producers, as is William Conrad, who also co-stars in it with Anthony Quinn. I can't repeat enough how BORING it is, save for the last 10 minutes. Very inexpensive black and white Western. Conrad is the lowly lawman who travels to Mexico to bring Quinn back for trial. After a lot of useless talk in Spanish and no action, Conrad takes his prisoner on the trek back. They encounter some Indians and a young orphan girl. It's just the two of them filling the screen most of the time. Did I say it was so BORING? Don't be fooled by the unanimous laudatory other reviews here. I know what the producers were aiming at. That was laudatory, but the execution was tedious IMHO.
Well written, well directed, well acted, well paced. This is a film made by people (Robert Aldrich, William Conrad) who care about the medium.Powerful performances by the leads and good support makes a simple story - of a Marshall taking a prisoner back to stand trial - an excellent one.If you like 1950s Jimmy Stewart/Anthony Mann and Randolph Scott/Budd Boetticher westerns, you'll like this one.
Ahead of its time story relying on psychological impact of stress on a sherrif trying to take a prisoner back for trial. Little shoot-em-up, lots more dialogue.Bill Conrad, while still Matt Dillon on the radio, plays a thoroughly different character on the big screen.I've liked this movie since I first saw it. It really stuck to my memory.
The overall look of a routine "B" oater serves as a mere backdrop for what in reality is a fascinating character study. The leads alternate between playing cat-and-mouse with each other and discovering disarming truths about their own characters. The supporting cast, although unknown, provide dynamic supporting performances -- check this unknown gem out, and share your thoughts with me.
