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Ride in the Whirlwind
Ride in the Whirlwind
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RIDE IN THE WHIRLWIND

Directed by Monte Hellman
United States, 1966
Western

Synopsis

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, forms up along the ridge, and takes for granted that everyone down below is guilty.

Synopsis

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, forms up along the ridge, and takes for granted that everyone down below is guilty.

Our take

Jack Nicholson writes, produces, and stars in this counter-culture acid western: a companion piece to Monte Hellman’s The Shooting, and a subversive revision of this most American of genres. A pared-back, poetic and near-hallucinatory film, featuring Warren Oates and Harry Dean Stanton.