Duel at Diablo

United States

1966

103 Min

Color

1.66:1

English

Currently 2.5/5 Stars.
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SCR Marvin H. Albert, Michael M. Grilikhes

CAST James Garner, Sidney Poitier, Bibi Andersson, Dennis Weaver, Bill Travers, William Redfield, John Hubbard, Ralph Nelson, Bill Hart, John Hoyt, Eddie Little Sky, John Crawford, Richard Farnsworth

Lieutenant McAllister is ordered to transport several ammunition wagons to another fort through Apache territory with only a small troop of rookie soldiers to guard them. Along for the ride is ex-scout Jess Remsberg who is trying to track down Ellen Grange, who, having recently been freed from Apache captivity, has mysteriously run off again to rejoin them. Remsberg frees Ellen again and leaves her with the embattled soldiers as he rides off to the fort, not only for help, but to find the man who killed and scalped his Indian wife. —IMDb

Director

Ralph Nelson

Ralph Nelson (August 12, 1916 – December 21, 1987) was an American movie and television director, producer, writer, and actor.

Nelson was born in Long Island City, NY. He served in the Army Air Corps as a flight instructor in World War II. Nelson directed the acclaimed episode A World Of His Own of The Twilight Zone and served as production manager for the bulk of the show’s run. He also directed both the television and film versions of Rod Serling’s Requiem for a Heavyweight.

He directed the 1968 movie Charly, for which Cliff Robertson won an Academy Award, as well as several racially provocative films in the 1960s and early 1970s, including the Academy Award-winning Lilies of the Field, …tick…tick…tick…, The Wilby Conspiracy, and Soldier Blue. For ‘Lillies’, actor Sidney Poitier won an Academy Award.

Additionally, he directed the Cary Grant comedy Father Goose, the offbeat Soldier in the Rain with Jackie Gleason and Steve McQueen, Once a Thief, and Rita Hayworth’s… read more

Ralph Nelson (August 12, 1916 – December 21, 1987) was an American movie and television director, producer, writer, and actor.

Nelson was born in Long Island City, NY. He served in the Army Air Corps as a flight instructor in World War II. Nelson directed the acclaimed episode A World Of His Own of The Twilight Zone and served as production manager for the bulk of the show’s run. He also directed both the television and film versions of Rod Serling’s Requiem for a Heavyweight.

He directed the 1968 movie Charly, for which Cliff Robertson won an Academy Award, as well as several racially provocative films in the 1960s and early 1970s, including the Academy Award-winning Lilies of the Field, …tick…tick…tick…, The Wilby Conspiracy, and Soldier Blue. For ‘Lillies’, actor Sidney Poitier won an Academy Award.

Additionally, he directed the Cary Grant comedy Father Goose, the offbeat Soldier in the Rain with Jackie Gleason and Steve McQueen, Once a Thief, and Rita Hayworth’s last film, The Wrath of God. Nelson also both directed and briefly appeared in Duel at Diablo, starring James Garner and Sidney Poitier. Nelson’s other credits include several episodes of TV’s Starsky & Hutch, the ‘70s camp horror classic Embryo, and A Hero Ain’t Nothin’ But a Sandwich. A television drama about mounting the live show of Requiem for a Heavyweight called The Man in the Funny Suit was made in 1960, with Nelson both writing and directing and Nelson, Serling, Red Skelton, Keenan Wynn and Ed Wynn appearing as themselves.He returned to TV in the late 1970s with a string of TV movies, including a sequel to Lillies of the Field starring Billy Dee Williams.

Death

He died in Santa Monica, California, aged 71. He was the father of Project Xanadu (precursor and main inspiration of the World Wide Web’s HTML format and HTTP protocol) inventor Ted Nelson (by his first wife, actress Celeste Holm), and, by his other marriage(s): Ralph, Peter, and Meredith Nelson. —Wikipedia

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