Cameron Mitchell, George Mitchell, Harry Dean Stanton
Three cowhands, between jobs, have the bad dumb luck to pitch night camp in the same valley as a cabin full of guys who just robbed a stagecoach and killed the guard. Come morning, a posse arrives,...( read more
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Somehow, when people speak of the two existentialist Westerns that Monte Hellman made on a single trek into the desert in 1966, Ride in the Whirlwind never gets as much attention as The Shooting. All right, so it doesn't star Warren Oates (though it does have Harry Dean Stanton, Oates's clear successor as sainted American character actor), and Jack Nicholson's screenplay isn't as infatuated with arty enigma or coffeehouse-quaint dialogue as Adrien Joyce's Shooting script. But of the two, Ride arguably cuts deeper as a meditation on things Western, and it's surely the one that would bring nods of recognition from a Parnassian review board comprised of William S. Hart, Harry Carey, and the various casts of The Virginian.
DVD Release Date: October 31, 2000
Stats: 46 reviews
The only movie you'll see where Jack Nicholson is bummed out for the entire 81 minutes. There's something deeper about this but until I figure it out I can only enjoy the surface of what it is: A good, slow Western
Simplistic yet overwhelmingly evoking. Those who criticize Nicholson for just being Nicholson in films have never seen this...
A western stripped down to it's fundamentals, and is rewarded for it. A fascinating look at justice or the lack there of. Again, too bad for the sound and visuals because it is a gem.
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