Ride the Hot Wind

Ride the Hot Wind is a 1971 film. It was made by Ted Kelly who was a good friend of Audie Murphy.

Ride the Hot Wind
Directed byDuke Kelly
Written byDuke Kelly
Rand Porter
Robert Linder
StarringTommy Kirk
Duke Kelly
Cheryl Waters
Sherry Bain
Production
company
V/M Productions
Release date
1971
CountryUnited States

In 1975, Kirk, Kelly, and several others of those involved in Ride The Hot Wind made My Name Is Legend.[1]

Plot

Captain Gregory Shank is a Vietnam vet who has been imprisoned by the army for being responsible for a massacre during the war. After he's released he tries to star fresh but employers fire him after they find out his past, he gets in brawls and he struggles to maintain a relationship. He falls in with some bikers. They go on a crime spree and the police assume Gregory is the ringleader.

Cast
  • Tommy Kirk as Gregory Shank

Production

Tommy Kirk starred and later recalled about the movie:

This was his [Kelly's] attempt to do a sympathetic dramatisation of a Lieutenant Calley-type character (My Lai massacre) coming home and portraying his bitterness, alienation and unhappiness at being fingered as a murderer, a baby killer and a monster. That's who I played. I'm not completely embarrassed by the film, but after I saw it, I wished they would have cut some things. Some of it was pretty stinko. Other things weren't so bad. The movie as a whole was a failure, but it wasn't trash.[2]

See also

References
  1. Vagg, Stephen (9 September 2019). "The Cinema of Tommy Kirk". Diabolique Magazine.
  2. Minton, Kevin, "Sex, Lies, and Disney Tape: Walt's Fallen Star", Filmfax Issue 38, April 1993 p 71


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